Productive Insights Podcast — Actionable Business Growth Ideas — with Ash Roy

00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=0s) - Introducing ... Derek Sivers! 01:39 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=99s) - How Derek built a $22m company by focusing purely on the customer 04:40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=280s) - The problem with external funding13:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=832s) - How to approach the world with a positive bias16:49 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=1009s) - The story of the cab driver and the mob29:12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=1752s) - Derek Siver's approach to content creation32:22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=1942s) - How Derek Sivers edits33:44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2024s) - How Derek Sivers sees the AI changes37:46 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2266s) - How to live40:28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2428s) - The attitude Derek Sivers brought to CD Baby43:03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2583s) - The struggle before launching CD Baby44:15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2655s) - Why I do my own editing now44:34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2674s) - Why you must pursue pain44:45 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2685s) - The difference between deep happy and shallow happy48:38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2918s) - Derek's advice to a person starting off in entrepreneurship 49:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=2940s) - The Tarzan analogy 50:24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=3024s) - The key thing about internal vs external focus 56:28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=3388s) - Derek Sivers on SEO57:33 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=3453s) - Derek Sivers' approach to writing anything

Show Notes

00:00 - Introducing ... Derek Sivers!

 01:39 - How Derek built a $22m company by focusing purely on the customer

 04:40 - The problem with external funding

13:52 - How to approach the world with a positive bias

16:49 - The story of the cab driver and the mob

29:12 - Derek Siver's approach to content creation

32:22 - How Derek Sivers edits

33:44 - How Derek Sivers sees the AI changes

37:46 - How to live

40:28 - The attitude Derek Sivers brought to CD Baby

43:03 - The struggle before launching CD Baby

44:15 - Why I do my own editing now

44:34 - Why you must pursue pain

44:45 - The difference between deep happy and shallow happy

48:38 - Derek's advice to a person starting off in entrepreneurship

 49:00 - The Tarzan analogy

 50:24 - The key thing about internal vs external focus

 56:28 - Derek Sivers on SEO

57:33 - Derek Sivers' approach to writing anything

Creators and Guests

Host
Ash Roy
Founder of ProductiveInsights.com

What is Productive Insights Podcast — Actionable Business Growth Ideas — with Ash Roy?

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The Productive Insights Podcast — the show notes of which you can access at https://www.ProductiveInsights.com/podcast — brings you brings you top entrepreneurs and shares actionable advice that can help you take your business to the next level. Some of the previously featured guests include: Ryan Deiss, Richard Lindner, Roland Frasier, and Marcus Murphy from Digital Marketer, James Schamko from Superfast Business, Neil Patel, Amy Porterfield, Ryan Levesque, Rand Fishkin from Moz, Jon Morrow the founder of Boost Blog Traffic, Brian Clark and Sonia Simone from Copyblogger, Noah Kagan from Appsumo, Molly Pittman, Ezra Firestone from Smart Marketer, Todd Herman — Author of The Alter Ego Effect, Mike Rhodes — a leading google adwords expert, and lots more!

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