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Ed Latimore Knocks Out Your Objections on The Sales Podcast

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  • Former heavyweight boxer

  • 78k followers on Instagram, 191.5k followers on Twitter

  • Got his physics degree at 33

  • Enlisted to get money for school

  • Liked math for the career path

  • Liked electronics in the Army then found physics

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  • SEO is tough but worth it.

  • He has mastered his E.A.T. (Expertise, Authority, Trust).

  • He wanted a website with great traffic.

  • Publishers want to see your platform and credentials.

  • His first two books were self-published.

  • First started using social media and realized the importance of having an audience.

  • The more people you can reach, the more people you can sell to, and the more money you can make.

  • There’s no disadvantage to having an audience.

  • Twitter is a late-Millennial thing.

  • His friend helped him grow his Twitter account but he used some shady software so Ed had to take back control.

  • He has a life outside of social media.

  • It’s all about being me.

  • He writes about the things that interest him.

  • He’s a walking, talking, ever-growing and evolving resume.

Jobs find me.”

  • SEO and marketing consulting.

  • “People are kinda bad at writing. I was bad at writing, too, when I started this.”

  • He now has lots of practice writing and he studies other writers.

  • His training in physics helped him learn to think and express himself and prove his points.

  • Nine years sober.

  • Lots of emotions around going sober.

  • Still working on his big contribution to society.

  • You can’t manufacture empathy.

  • As long as you’re in the game you win the game.

  • Patch the holes in the bucket.

  • Go make more money: Take a second job or a side hustle or a roommate or whatever!

  • Change how you think.

  • Ed used to be bad with money.

  • He was 23 and got the second boot on his car and he needed a loan from a friend that took him four months to pay back but he kept making the same mistakes.

  • He learned if he ate better he felt better at work.

  • If he lived closer to work he could save money on commuting.

  • He was looking towards the future.

  • He kept his little car until he got t-boned.

  • The best things in life is to realize what’s important so you can stop chasing what is not important.

  • Your attachment to material things keeps you from developing.

  • “Grew up poor and hood as hell.” Now gets to travel and he is seeing how little he needs to be happy.

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