NICE26 - Career pivots, agency life, and full time trainer with Matt Bailey.

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Matt Bailey teaches how to turn data into decisions. Matt is the founder of SiteLogic and host of the Endless Coffee Cup podcast.

What we talked about...

• On the power of audience feedback, reviews, and comments.

• Endless Coffee Cup podcast

• How spontaneous conversations occur at conferences.

• Informal meals and picking up the check.

• Bulletin Boards (BBS) on the Commodore64.

• Matt studied journalism and moved on to real estate.

• He built a website for his real estate business because the cost of print advertising was out of reach.

• He created an agency from the demand he received from fellow realtors for their own sites.

• The most valuable question he asked himself was, “What’s the most profitable use of my time?”

• He discovered big numbers lie. Quality over quantity.

• He grew his agency to eighteen employees and decided to pivot to training.

• The power of teaching others.

• Search engine optimization tips for your website.

• Content management systems like WordPress and Squarespace.

• Building online courses and measuring how you know if people learned.

• From Northeast Ohio to Dubai!

• Setting time aside to read a book a month.

• Read Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric.

• You Are Not So Smart podcast.

• Setting expectations and finding balance offline.