14. How to be #1 in Your Niche - Tom Libelt

This week we welcome online course specialist Tom Libelt to the show! Tom has been learning and practising business since he was a child, being ripped off by Russian vendors in communist Poland will certainly teach you about negotiation! His family eventually moved from Poland to the US to escape communism while Tom was still young, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists. Now, Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. Tom seems like one of those guys with the Midas Touch, where everything he works on turns into gold. He has published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding. You can connect with Tom via his: - Facebook page  - Podcast: the Smart Brand Marketing Show - Twitter - Website In this episode we talk about: - The benefit of being a ‘kid with nothing to lose’ and how you can engineer that ‘no fear’ mindset. - The number 1 lesson from his time in the music industry that taught him how to dominate in business. - The truth behind those "quick win" stories you see advertised on social media every day.  - How the act of selling is just asking someone to believe there is hope and that they CAN leave their uncomfortable, painful situation behind. So it's more about them than it is about you.  - The realities of being a travelling “laptop entrepreneur” and the best places in the world to work as a laptop entrepreneur.  - The difference between marketing your online course in 2020 and 2021. How not to get left behind as the world continues to adapt to working online. - When is the best time to introduce an online course into your portfolio. - How you know as an entrepreneur if something is truly failing and you need to pivot, or something is just challenging you and you need to focus more on it. - And of course Tom's Millionaire Secret... We would both love it to hear your takeaways from this episode so please share these on the social platform of your choice tagging one or both of us in. If you would like more from me, you can connect with me on Instagram @bethanjepson or Facebook, join the Success Circle FREE network, or visit www.bethanjepson.com. If you would like to subscribe to the Millionaire Secret Podcast email list to receive the 'Millionaire Secrets Success Checklist - 12 easy to implement daily practices which guarantee success in business,' approved by millionaires for future millionaires, then visit www.millionairesecretspodcast.com.