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Sept. 21, 2022

68. Gurus like Grand Cardone and Russell Brunson: Love 'em or Hate 'e…

In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss the business of gurus and how they've both changed their attitude on them over time. Johnny was formerly a hater until he himself became a "guru" by sharing information in free and paid...

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Sept. 14, 2022

67. 4 Cleaning Biz Marketing Tactics To Help You Make an Extra $10K

In this episode Neel and Johnny give four proven tactics that they have used to drive hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales for their respective cleaning businesses. Those tactics are: Local Facebook Groups (Johnny explai...

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Sept. 7, 2022

66. Key Lessons from a $50K Mastermind

In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss the benefits of a $50,000+ mastermind that Johnny and his business partner joined. Originally Johnny had hired this company to help with sales and in classic "value ladder" style the co...

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Aug. 24, 2022

65. Going hunting with the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa for 2…

In this episode Johnny catches up with Neel about his recent visit with the Hazda tribe in Tanzania. Neel got the special government permission necessary to go out there and learned a lot. Neel's day started with joining some...

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Aug. 17, 2022

64. How to Find and Surround Yourself with the Right People

In this episode Neel and Johnny revisit the old quote about the five closest people to you and talk about proactively upgrading those people. They discuss: the power of groups like EO, EOA, and the Dynamite Circle why it's wo...

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Aug. 10, 2022

63. Step by Step Guide on Starting a Vacation Rental Cleaning Business

In this episode, Neil gives listeners a step-by-step guide to starting their own vacation rental biz. He starts by highlighting the opportunity: people prefer vacation rentals to hotels now, and there is a huge demand for hot...

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Aug. 3, 2022

62. How to Choose Your Opportunity Vehicle Wisely

In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss opportunity vehicles: what you are doing in your career, and how is it helping you achieve your life goals? Things they consider include: different "levels" of opportunity how those lev...

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July 27, 2022

61. Exiting One Business to Pursue Another

In this episode Neel and Johnny chat with Sergio, Johnny's business partner in Orange Window Cleaning, about their recent sale of the business. While Sergio and Johnny had always had a goal of growing a business to $10M, they...

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July 20, 2022

60. The #1 Best Place I Find Remote Team Members, feat Dan Andrews fr…

In this episode Neel sits down with Dan Andrews of the Tropical MBA podcast. Neel reveals that Dan is the one who first used the phrase "remote local business" to describe what Neel was doing at MaidThis. Alas, there will …

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July 13, 2022

59. Leveling Up Your Life Using 8 Pillars

In this solo episode, Neil offers 8 Pillars he uses to audit and improve his personal life. A couple years ago Neil was happy with how systematized his business was, but was shocked as to how not-systematized his personal lif...

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July 6, 2022

58. Market Your Local Services Business, with SME Mike Grigery

In this episode Neel interview Mike Grigery of ClickCallSell.com to get the scoop on how to market your local services business. Mike has helped hundreds of companies execute thousands of marketing campaigns and he's been Nee...

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June 22, 2022

57. Build a Brand By Sharing What You've Learned in Business Life

In this episode Neel and Johnny talk about the impact of sharing what you've learned in business. After five years of grinding and building a window cleaning business, Johnny packaged what he learned to create Home Service Ac...

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June 15, 2022

56. Remote Working Destinations: Trends, Underrated Spots, and Genera…

In this leisurely spitball episode, Neel and Mitko Karvoshki talk all things remote work and digital nomad as it applies to different spots around the world: who's winning, who's losing, and who's underrated. If you don't kno...

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June 8, 2022

55. The Tech Stack You Need for a Remote Local Business

In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss various pieces of software that they use to run their businesses. There was clear agreement on some of the big hitters today, like Slack (can't live without it), G-Suite (tons of tools)...

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June 1, 2022

54. Making $10k From Scratch, with New Co-host Johnny Robinson

In this episode Neel and new co-host Johnny Robinson offer a blueprint for earning your first $10k from scratch without reference to cleaning companies, a sector both of them have had a lot of success in. Neel and Johnny outl...

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May 25, 2022

53. David Lahav Returns for His Final Episode with the Remote Local P…

In this episode Neel and David discuss David's three-month meditation teacher training course and what his future looks like. His last appearance featured his explaining what he had to do in order to be gone that long from h...

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May 18, 2022

52. Recession Prep for Your Remote Local Business

In this episode Neel offers thoughts on how to make your Remote Local business better prepared for recessions. Neel takes a two-pronged approach to preparing for recessions. First, he focuses on insulating the business, which...

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May 11, 2022

51. Should You Buy a Franchise or DIY? Keith Levenson of AC Inc Weigh…

In this episode Neel welcomes Keith Levenson of Angela Coté Inc . to talk about franchising. Keith got his start in franchising by actually helping a family entertainment center go through the process themselves. He then too...

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May 4, 2022

50. 4 Remote Local Business Models That I Love, feat. SqueegeeGod Joh…

In this episode Neel is joined by Johnny Robinson to whiteboard some Remote Local business ideas. Johnny has been on the pod before but we kick off the episode with a brief bio to catch up listeners who may not …

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April 28, 2022

49. Run Your Biz On Autopilot Using EOS Lite Pt 2

In the second of an ongoing series on EOS, Neil shares his adaptation of Gino Wickman's Entrepreneurial Operating System, and how he's used it to great success at MaidThis. In this episode Neel gives strategic tips for how to...

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April 27, 2022

48. Run Your Biz On Autopilot Using EOS Lite

In the first of an ongoing series on EOS, Neil shares his adaptation of Gino Wickman's Entrepreneurial Operating System, and how he's used it to great success at MaidThis. Things Neel learned in the process of creating an "EO...

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April 20, 2022

47. The Digital Nomad Life: A Report from the Front Lines

In this episode Neel shares what he learned catching up with dozens of digital nomads (past, present, and future) at a Dynamite Circle conference in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. He found out that: Travel is definitely back (exce...

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April 6, 2022

46. Running a fully remote call center with 100 agents, an interview …

In this episode Neel sits down with Donald Spann to look over the pros and cons of the various remote local business models he has tried. Like Neel, Donald was part of the Launch27 crew, aka the "cleaning company mafia," …

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March 30, 2022

45. Thinking About Exiting Your Business

In this episode Neel shares different ways to think about exiting your business, including his own current plans for MaidThis. While some might say that you need to know what your exit plan is before you even start your busin...

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