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You know the problem right? you launch an online community…and nobody shows up. No users means your community is a failure. What do you do? That's what we're about to learn.

How does a financial guidance application get over 300,000 paid subscribers? Matt Fellowes is the founder of HelloWallet, which helps workers track and manage their personal finances. It's aim is to be...

If you give Yanik Silver a computer keyboard, he can pretty much sell anything. Want an example? His first million dollar product was...

How do you create systems for your business so you can delegate more of your work? Joining me is Kelly Azevedo who is a systems engineer who works with entrepreneurs to...

What can you learn about generating revenue from a guy who says he did over $2 million in sales before he turned 20 years old? Max Teitelbaum, co-founder of WhatRunsWhere, says as a teenager he figured out a way to "buy low and sell high" in the online ad market. You'll hear how he did it, including the "holy crap" moment when he had his first $10,000 day. You'll also learn his advice for how you could do it too.

You'll see in Ryan Carson's face how shocked he was to reveal his revenue, but I promise this interview is about more than numbers. You'll get a DETAILED break-down of how an entrepreneur creates a company that changes lives and grows revenue. Did you see last week's launch of Treehouse, the innovative educational site that teaches programming? Basically, ...

How are marketers using video to get high-quality traffic? Turns out YouTube is the second biggest search engine, after Google. And just as, years ago, marketers built businesses on the back of Google's massive growth, today many are growing with YouTube. I invited the founder of Video Traffic Academy here to teach us how he does it.

How does an entrepreneur with little money use clever hacks to build traction? Chuck Gordon is about to get very open with you and show you the tactics he used, including, calling up customers to sell things he didn't even have yet, publishing a site that didn't really work, and forgoing paying rent on a standalone office by parking himself in his advisor's office. (That last tactic came with a nice bonus, as you'll hear soon.)

How do you build a Zappos-like culture in your company? Joseph Michelli is the author of The Zappos Experience - 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage and WOW. He's here to teach us how to build a culture, not just a business. Why? To make more money, retain your customers, and decrease your advertising costs.

How do you increase your productivity so you could get more free time? That's what this interview is about. As the founder of SET Consulting, Jared Goralnick helped hundreds of companies make real productivity gains. After selling that business, he went on to launch AwayFind.com, which lets you stop checking your inbox every 5 minutes but still allows urgent emails to find you quickly by pushing them right to you with alerts.

How much revenue would you expect a founder to generate if he sold jellyfish online? Alex Andon, founder of Jellyfish Art, is here to say that his company did $250,000 in its first year by selling aquariums with jellyfish. I invited him to tell you how he did it, including...

How does someone with no programming experience bootstrap a $30k / month app startup? Rishi Modha & Anirudh Sharma are the co-founders of FIPLAB, an application development studio that specializes in creating viral, high quality mobile applications. I invited them here to talk honestly about how they did it.

How does an employee turn himself into a hit-making entrepreneur and investor? After spending years in sales and engineering at UUNET and other companies, Jonathon Perrelli founded Plesk, The Shadow Group, eTantrum, SecureSoftware, & SecureForce. As an investor, he backed Plaxo, FormSpring, FormStack, and other companies. Then he launched Fortify.vc, where founders fund founders.

You're probably going to dismiss this interview the first time you see it. You'll think that "creating fame" is not for serious business people who have too much real work to do. Then, in a few days, you'll start to...

How do you save your company's life? By taking it mobile. Rob Woodbridge is the founder of Untethered Mobile, which consults companies on how to develop their mobile strategy and build their mobile products right.

How can simple changes to a landing page take a go-nowhere business and make it profitable? Niki Scevak is the founder of Tomazo, which designs conversion-optimizing landing pages for its customers. Niki and I met when he re-did my my site's welcome mat (that page that first-time visitors see) and grew my email list.

What can you learn from a failed startup? Joining me is Sarah Prevette, the founder of Sprouter.com. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from people who know what they’re talking about. Recently the company announced a setback and had to close down. Then...