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Ditching Hourly

Ditching Hourly

349 Episodes • By Jonathan Stark • podcast.ditchinghourly.com...
For experts who want to make more and work less without hiring.
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Corey Quinn - The Benefits of Selling to Anyone, Not Everyone
Corey Quinn joined me on Ditching Hourly to discuss ... more
Apr 9 2024 50m
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Why Niching Down Isn't Boring with Geraldine Carter
Geraldine Carter and I swapped interviews about why ... more
Mar 26 2024 1h 5m
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JS on SuiteScript Stories with Tim Dietrich and Eric Grubaugh
Tim Dietrich and Eric Grubaugh invited me to join th... more
Mar 19 2024 58m
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Joe Quadara - From Fighting Fires to Lighting the Way: How Expertise Creates Leverage in Consulting
Indie game consultant Joe Quadara (aka Joe Q) joined... more
Jan 30 2024 46m
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Bryan Strawser - Breaking Seven Figures For The First Time
Bryghtpath CEO and Ditcherville lifetime resident Br... more
Jan 10 2024 57m
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The Real Reason You Started A Business
The Real Reason You Started A BusinessYou started a ... more
Dec 5 2023 4m
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Jonathan on Everyone Hates Marketers with Louis Grenier
The handsome and talented Louis Grenier had me on Ev... more
Nov 14 2023 55m
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Alexander Lapa - The Non-Profit Salesforce Guy
Alexander Lapa joins me for a tour-de-force journey ... more
Oct 24 2023 1h 3m
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Rod Aparicio - The Myth of Personal Brand
Fellow daily emailer and No-BS marketer Rod Aparicio... more
Sep 19 2023 35m
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Zach Stevens - Going from Zero to $36k MRR with a Product-Marketing-as-a-Service Subscription Business
Graphic designer, product marketer, and co-founder o... more
Sep 11 2023 59m
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David Shriner-Cahn - Helping Corporate Refugees Start, Run, and Grow Their Own Businesses
David Shriner-Cahn of Smashing the Plateau joined me... more
Aug 22 2023 45m
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Luke Willis - $39k Launch
Aug 17 2023 29m
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Coaching Call with Data Engineer Denis Gontcharov
Denis Gontcharov joined me on Ditching Hourly for a ... more
Aug 16 2023 1h 22m
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John Grant - Streamlining Delivery Workflows for Lawyers
The Agile Attorney, John Grant, joined me on Ditchin... more
Aug 15 2023 52m
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James Williams - Fractional CTO Masterclass
James Williams of Cofebe.com joined me on Ditching H... more
Aug 1 2023 42m
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Michael Zipursky - Selling Consulting Into Large Organizations in 2023
Guest BioMichael Zipursky – Michael has consulted fo... more
Jul 27 2023 39m
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Ron Baker - Time’s Up!
Talking PointsSubscription pricing is becoming incre... more
Jul 18 2023 1h 14m
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Ryan Golgosky - Productized Subscription Model for Web Design
180Sites.com founder Ryan Golgosky joined me on Ditc... more
Jun 20 2023 50m
Customer Guidelines in WordPress Management
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The Song Of Significance with Seth Godin (TBOA #285)
Cross-post from The Business of Authority:Seth Godin... more
Jun 13 2023 36m
The Danger of Ineffective Proxies
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Denis Čahuk - Building Autonomous Engineering Teams
Denis Čahuk (aka “Coach Denis”) joined me on Ditchin... more
Jun 6 2023 1h 6m
Adapting Priorities for Improved Code Health
Chapter 1 12 mins
“My ideal buyer is a tech lead, an engineering manager, some kind of VP, or a tech technical leader in engineering that has direct reports who are individual contributors.”
Chapter 2 4 mins
“It is really easy to avoid Friday releases if you plan not to do them.”
Chapter 3 11 mins
“I wrote a script that mimicked doing exactly what the dev did, but it took them two hours, and my script runs it in 40 seconds.”
Chapter 4 3 mins
“They would waste 30 minutes every day just checking, ‘Wait, do you mean the thing thing or the other thing thing?’”
Chapter 5 10 mins
“But what we are measuring with that last subjective metric is essential. And if the team did well this sprint, did they celebrate?”
Chapter 6 19 mins
“I encourage them to cancel the sprint once the team is no longer following the goal.”
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Geraldine Carter - Finding Your Niche: Tackling Objections and Getting Traction
Longtime friend-of-the-show and “three-peat” guest G... more
May 30 2023 52m
Finding Your Best Fit Clients
Chapter 1 17 mins
“They know down deep inside where they wanna be, but they just haven’t given themselves time and space or permission to let that idea surface as a possible business model.”
Chapter 2 2 mins
“Once you dive into your niche, you realize just how much there is to learn.”
Chapter 3 2 mins
“It’s almost like a process of elimination where they need to know what wrong feels like in order to know what Right feels like.”
Chapter 4 5 mins
“Who do you like working with? What gets you excited? What are the things that you think about when you can’t help thinking about them?”
Chapter 5 3 mins
“It’s not the curfuffle that you imagine it’s going to be in your mind.”
Chapter 6 5 mins
“There are a lot of pieces, there are a lot of moving parts, and it includes you having a good product, you talking about that product, but also not just talking, but speaking compellingly about the product.”
Chapter 7 11 mins
“CPAs do have it easy in a way, and it’s fair that they are in a profession that is in some ways legally required to purchase the service of.”
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Dr. J.J. Peterson - Building A Business Beyond Hourly Billing
Dr. JJ Peterson, head of StoryBrand, joined me on Di... more
May 23 2023 49m
Managing Client Expectations
Chapter 1 14 mins
“Showing clients what kind of return they're going to get is a huge way to position yourself as value in the field.”
Chapter 2 6 mins
“Story takes a bunch of information that's out there and puts it all in a form that makes sense to somebody.”
Chapter 3 6 mins
“It's not about you, it's about what your skills and experience do to solve their problem.”
Chapter 4 2 mins
“Clarify your message first. Figure out what your messaging is gonna be before you do spend money on anything, creating anything else.”
Chapter 5 1 min
“You wanna be on those stages. Then the second part about that is once you figure out where you wanna be, you wanna go into those places, and you wanna add a ton of value, don't wanna actually go in and sell.”
Chapter 6 7 mins
“Building your audience with free stuff and then charge quote unquote for the next level, which is to get your email address.”
Chapter 7 2 mins
“What you bring to businesses and the problems that you solve and the value that you bring is huge. So don't sell yourself short.”
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Denis Čahuk - Find Out What’s Valuable And Then Do Nothing Else
Tech trainer and coach Denis Čahuk joined me on Ditc... more
May 16 2023 56m
Eliminating Waste in Work Relationships
Chapter 1 1 min
That was super easy cuz by that point, I made like nine YouTube videos, which were about 30 hours of conversations
Chapter 2 1 min
It does seem to highlight those aspects of coding that make things easier to change and cheaper to maintain into the actual workflow
Chapter 3 11 mins
Okay, this isn't about you, the developer. This is about your team and what your team might be going through
Chapter 4 3 mins
It's like, okay, "how can we get fulfillment?" How can we get that kick-ass "hell yeah!" feeling for developers without forcing them to go vegan and do yoga
Chapter 5 4 mins
And then rather than telling you, I also show you
Chapter 6 6 mins
Just talk to the customer. Find out what's valuable and then do nothing else
Chapter 7 7 mins
The overall message is "think bigger" and don't get hung up on wanting to grind on the disengagement of the employees
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Luke Willis - Taxes, Inflation, and the Psychology of Currency
Our resident crypto expert and longtime friend of th... more
May 9 2023 40m
Impact of Uncertainty on Risk Tolerance
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James Turner - Selling Credits Instead of Hours
James Turner, partner at SNAP Copy, joined me on Dit... more
May 2 2023 46m
Scaling a Side Hustle
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