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EPISODE #56: YIFAT COHEN
On Episode 56 of âDiamonds in Your Own Backyard: The Entrepreneurs Radio show,â Travis and
Sandra are going to be chatting with Yifat Cohen, one of the leading experts on Google+. Yifat is one of
the pioneers of this Google platform and has been voted the best Google+ user of 2011. She also runs
a workshop, teaching people how to optimize the use of Google+.
Listen in as she explains the benefits of this platform and how it can, in her view, change the world by
changing the way people interact online.
Yifat Cohen â Using Google+ to grow your business
Travis: Hey, itâs Travis Lane Jenkins.
Sandra: And this is Sandra Champlain.
Travis: Welcome to the Entrepreneurs Radio Show.
Sandra: Thanks.
Travis: Episode number 56, Sandra.
Sandra: Wow, Travis. What a difference weâre making, huh?
Travis: Yes.
Sandra: Even with myself--every interview, I get so much out of. How about yourself?
Travis: I do, too. I absolutely love the amount of people that weâre connecting everyone
with. Itâs just surprising to see⊠I donât know. It seems like we just started, and we are already at
Episode 56.
Sandra: Yes, thatâs great.
Travis: Lots and lots of good stuff. Hey, before we get started, you know I like to remind
everybody to be sure and stay with us until the very end, if you can. We want to share a little
inspiration, and weâll also reveal who weâre going to connect you within the next episode. Right,
Sandra?
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Sandra: Yes, and I love the quotes that you give at the end, Travis, because itâs like Iâm
empowered to set sail and take action on something. Theyâre a really awesome way to complete the
interviews.
Travis: Thank you. Thatâs exactly what we had in mind. One quick reminder: if you enjoy
this free podcast that we create for you, weâd really appreciate it if youâd go to diyob.com because that
stands for what, Sandra?
Sandra: Diamonds in Your Own Backyard.
Travis: Donât you forget it. Click on the iTunes icon and then post a comment and rate
the show. This would help us reach, instruct and inspire more great entrepreneurs just like yourself with
each and every guest that we bring on the show, right?
Sandra: Right.
Travis: Our guest today--do you know who it is?
Sandra: I donât. Who is it?
Travis: It is Yifat Cohen.
Sandra: Sheâs marvelous.
Travis: Yes. You say, âyee-fat,â and I say, âyi-fat.â You notice the difference?
Sandra: No.
Travis: Yes, oneâs like a Y-E-E, and the other one is like a âe-fat.â Anyway, itâs an
interesting name. Tomato, tomatoâone and the same. She is a great gal, and it was an excellent
interview, wasnât it?
Sandra: Yes, super, and for our listeners, Travis and I have perfected this. Instead of just
giving you a preview of what might come, we record the show and then we give you hints as what was
in it. Theyâre really great quality interviews.
Yifat, if I may tell, Travis, is the leading authority on Google+. I donât know if youâre like me, but itâs been
a world that I donât know, donât understand. I just assumed it was another--like a Facebook or Twitter or
LinkedIn or something like that. Itâs an unbelievable world and, I think, we entrepreneurs should all be
in.
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Travis: Yes. She answers a lot of questions. Itâs a mystery. Iâm on Google+ and I really
donât completely understand it. Of course, I know you donât, Sandra. I even have her critique some of
the things on my page. Thereâs lots of great, usable information that you can go, once you listen to the
episode, and take action with your Google+ page, right?
Sandra: Yes. Youâre going to want to listen and maybe have a notebook because
Google+ really sounds like the way of the future, completely different, and she gives a whole context of
why itâs something we need to be involved with. Itâs really awesome interview.
Travis: Right, right. One quick thing: now Yifat is listed as the number one top Google+
user, working as Google+ marketing on Google+ data. I donât know if I said that right, but I know sheâs
listed as the number one. Sheâs also been voted the best Google+ user in 2011, chosen by Google+
community. Itâs almost like Iâm trying to see how many times I can say the word Google+. Sheâs 286th
on the Whoâs Who? for Google+ and the top 1,000 Google+ers in the world for 2012.
Sandra: Wow.
Travis: Pretty impressive, huh?
Sandra: Impressive. Letâs dive right in and meet Ms. Yifat Cohen.
Travis: All right. Without further ado, welcome to the show, Yifat.
Yifat: Hi, Travis. Thanks for having me.
Travis: Weâre super excited to have you here. Sandra, you want to jump in and say
hello?
Sandra: Hello. Iâve got a big smile on my face because I think⊠Iâm just looking up you
and your site and what youâre up to, and itâs a world I know nothing about, so I get very excited to learn
new things. Iâm so excited that youâre here. Thank you for your time and your generosity.
Yifat: Thanks for having me, Sandra. Good to meet you, too.
Sandra: Yes.
Travis: Yes. Hey, before we get into what you teach so many people, do you mind giving
us the backstory of how you got started and what brought you into that today, where youâre at today?
Yifat: You know how the best thing in life happen unplanned? Life happens when youâre busy
making other plans.
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Travis: Right.
Yifat: One day, I received an invitation two years ago from Google to join their Beta testing of
Google+. I was one of the 100 people who got it. They gave it to us and then they asked, âSpread the
invitations around.â It was a very small group. I just jumped in, and I started testing it out with a few
people there, a few geeks, and we tested whatâs working. What happens when you block someone?
What happens when you share something privately? It was just fun. For some reason, this kind of
clicked better for me than Facebook and Twitter and all the other networks that I âtran sackâ on. Iâm
really bad with them.
Sandra: Youâre funny.
Yifat: Thank you. But this one kind of felt safe. It felt safe because your privacy settings were
very, very tight and you can show any aspect of yourself to whoever you want to show it to, and then
keep the normal stuff public. We made really great connections, and now I have a whole new family
that I met just through Google+.
They started rolling things slowly, slowly. First day, they rolled out Hangouts, and I was a black man
because I didnât have--I didnât dare put my face on camera. Then I was cat. Then slowly, slowly, we got
used to it. I met another guy on Google+ and we started doing Hangouts. Back then, there was not the
ability to do Hangouts on the air, which is publicly broadcasted on YouTube, so we did it through live
stream. Then when they launched Hangouts on air, it was only for a small crowd, and we asked our
audience if they want to see us on air and they said yes, and so Google gave us the privileges, and we
got to test it before anyone else did. Thatâs it. We built the show from interviewing people like what
youâre doing right now, but we did it with video and face to face, and of course people mean to interact
with them.
Then we parted ways, and I left that story for some time, for a different time. I continued with the show,
and I continued playing with Google+ and learning how it works. At that time, and I think even now, the
media is kind of misleading people because theyâre making them say that Google+ is like Facebook or
Twitter and thereâs always a competition. Whoâs going to be first: Facebook or Google+? Google+ just
passed Twitter nine floors, and theyâre number two now. The problem is that itâs not a social website, so
you canât compare it to Twitter or Facebook. Itâs really a social platform that sits on top of all of Google
services. So without you knowing, Google is pushing Google+ to YouTube and to Search and Analytics
and Drive, and connects everything together with this social interaction.
To me, thatâs the fascinating part and the part that a lot of people are missing because theyâre like, âI
donât have time for another social network. Iâm not going to dive into it.â Itâs going to hurt you in rank
eventually. Anything youâre doing online is tied to Google+.
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Sandra: Could you give a little bit more clarity on that because I am exactly who you just
described. I have a Google+ account, havenât a clue what it is. I donât really get involved because itâs
like, âOh, yes, itâs just another one.â I think most people donât realize what it is and the value and also I
donât know what a Hangout is, and I think if you could just give some distinction, a little bit more as to
why--what sets Google+ aside and different, why itâs important, and a little bit about that because I
would love to jump in, but again I donât know what it is and how and...
Yifat: And why.
Sandra: Yes. Why? Thatâs another one, but itâs not. Tell me more.
Yifat: I can talk about this for hours, so just stop me when you want. Itâs my passion.
Sandra: Yay!
Yifat: So Google+ is a social layer that sits on top of all of Google services. It came about
because Googleâs mission really is to give you the information that you want, right? They know that
word of mouth and social connections are really how you make your decisions. If a business places an
ad, buys an ad from Google, and that shows up in Search and next to it, Sandra, you see Travisâ
picture that says, âYes, this is an ad that I actually verified and I know this business and I like them,â
youâre going to click on that ad which means Google will make more money.
What happens is Google is trying to fight spam, all these fake ads and fake SEO, black SEO links, that
rate sites that are not valuable to you. Instead, what they do is they want to see real people saying,
âYes, this person is an authority on this subject. Iâm going to rank their information higher in Search.â
Also, theyâre connected to these people, so when these people are searching, weâre going to bring in
information from someone they know and trust, thus giving them really exactly what they want. Google
wants to become the big search engine that provides a personalized information for you. They do that
by the +1s, the sharing, the comments. If you post anything on podcasting or blog radio and you have a
lot of shares, that tells Google that you know what youâre talking about and a lot of people agree with
you and theyâre going to follow you, which means youâre the authority.
If you are not participating in Google+ and someone else is capturing that space of blog talk radio,
youâre going to miss your spot. Right now, because a lot of people donât understand how Google+
works, those who do really capture free organic real estate in Search, and thatâs where a lot of people
are missing the boat because theyâre like, âAh, itâs social network. Iâm not going to get into it.â It affects
your ranking in Search. It affects your connection. It affects your organic ranking, traffic to your sites.
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from one of my coaching clients who said, âYou know, I followed what you
said and we posted something on Google+ at 2:47. From 2:47 to 5 oâclock, we got 15 visitors to our
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site, and they spent 10 minutes on the site watching stuff.â And thatâs just⊠right. Thatâs huge and that
organic, not paid, direct traffic, right, with qualified leads because they know exactly what youâre about
and theyâre coming there and spending time.
Travis: So what I hear you saying is instead of it being another social network like
Facebook, what I understand it more to be now based on what Iâm hearing is itâs kind of the glue that
brings all of or a lot of Google services together. Is that right?
Yifat: Exactly. You got it. Exactly. You can think about it as what happens in Facebook stays in
Facebook, and what happens in Google+ is all over the place. Itâs kind of like a virus.
Sandra: That makes lots of sense.
Yifat: If you do a Hangout--a Hangout is a free 10-man video chat which is integrated also with
YouTube videos and Drive and all the other services. Hangout on Air is the same thing, but itâs
broadcasted live on YouTube, so now you have your own TV channel that is open to the world and itâs
also being recorded for later use. If you do a Hangout, someone can find you and come to your site or
join you or meet you face to face. That increases your ranking and your visibility in Search. Hangout is
connected to Google+. Itâs connected to YouTube, and itâs connected to Search. If you start doing that
kind of stuff, youâre going to increase your visibility and your click-throughs.
Travis: It seems like theyâre really going to annihilate a lot of businesses that are
charging for these services.
Yifat: Youâre so on, Travis. Itâs crazy. I think Skype will go away, GoToMeeting, Office
eventually, because Microsoft is training people to use the Cloud and when theyâre trained to use the
Cloud, theyâll be like, âOkay. I have a free Cloud with Google,â so that; Eventbrite because thereâs event
services within Google. I donât know about Yelp because Google+ is ranking sites based on Zagat,
Zagat reviews, and a lot of people donât like Yelp.
So thereâs a lot of services that Google offers for free and theyâre all tied together--with your network,
your Gmail, your calendarâeverything that youâre doing everyday online anyway are tied together with
this social layer thatâs called Google+.
Travis: Well, the social profile is what really has eliminated a lot of the spam, and itâs
something that you were talking about in the very beginning, because so many people⊠One of the
biggest problems in the Internet is the anonymous part of the Internet. When people can remain
anonymous, they do and say very cruel things for several different reasons, and when all of actions or
the majority of actions start getting tied into social profiles, then a lot of that started getting eliminated
because they could quickly tell whether you were someone bogus or not, right?
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Yifat: Yes, and you know whatâs funny? You know all these hate comments on YouTube that
people put up just to be hating--why do people do that? On Google+, the atmosphere is totally different.
Itâs very collaborative, very supporting. Like I said, I met my family there, people who are really close to
my heart. I think itâs because you really donât want people to hate you, right? Itâs like you said: itâs easy
to hide behind an avatar or a pseudonym. Here you have to be a real person, and actually Google is
connecting your Google+ profile with your YouTube, so I think maybe weâre going to start seeing hate
go down in YouTube and actually be more supportive and collaborative.
Travis: Yes. Iâve been around several different environments. Iâve seen a lot of black hat
things over the years. Thereâs people with a hundred different profiles that log in and use them for
different mischievous-type things. Google has used a lot of algorithms to reverse-engineer those people
and track them down and shut them down. This is just taking it one step closer. Iâve spoken with a
couple of people in the past about Google+, and they felt like that it was kind ofâŠ
Yifat: A ghost town?
Travis: Well, yes, Iâve heard that, but there are people that said that it was early adopter,
tastemaker-type people that were on Google+. Do you agree with that, and why do you think Google+
is so slow to catch on in relation to Facebook?
Yifat: Two reasons. Well, first, I disagree with it. There are over 500 million people in Google+.
But again, Google+, youâre comparing it to kind of like a Facebook again, right? Youâre thinking, âOkay,
itâs a social layer, my audience is not there.â But your audience is also on YouTube, right? There are a
billion visits a day, right? Theyâre also all using Gmail. Theyâre also using Calendar, and many of them
are on Search. All of these services together are integrated. People will come into--they are starting to
be aware of this social layer because they see people popping up in their Gmail or in YouTube. You
can start a Hangout from YouTube, and you can go to a personâs profile from YouTube also. Everything
is connected, and as soon as people come and realize that, you realize that your market is not really
just the people on Google+ but itâs all of Google users. Thatâs way more than--thatâs the Internet.
Thatâs a misconception because we always compare it. Well, Facebook has, what, 700 million people in
it. Google+ only has 500 million, so theyâre not there yet, but you also have Google Local and all the
local businesses that donât have the Google pages that they used to have. Now they have to have
Google+ Local if you want to show up in Search with the maps and everything. You have all the
businesses there. People slowly, slowly are catching on.
Thatâs one. The other one is you asked me--what was that?
Travis: I got so deeply involved in your answer that I forgot what it was. Youâre
mesmerizing me, Yifat.
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Yifat: Thank you. I think the problem is that people come to Google+ thinking itâs a social
network, and they do what they do on social network which is post. âI need to post five tweets a day. I
need to post five times on Facebook if I want anything.â Oh, thatâs what you asked me: âWhy is it
catching on slowly?â
Travis: Right.
Yifat: Itâs different from Facebook because Facebook is basically the people that you know
already, and now you interact with them online, right? If you post your breakfast or your kidsâ pictures
or somethingâŠ
Sandra: Which everybody does.
Yifat: Your mom or your college friends or someone will like it, and you feel like thereâs
engagement. Also, itâs something close to their heart, right? Itâs their nephew, their son, theirâ
someone, but itâs someone that you know in real life.
Google+ did something different, which is fascinating to me how they managed to do that. If now,
Travis and Sandra, you guys want to find entrepreneurs, youâre going to go locally to local meetings,
like meet-ups or BNI or any places where entrepreneurs meet and connect with them there. Youâll go
to LinkedIn maybe and you try to figure out who the entrepreneurs are. What Google did is they
connect you on Google+ with passionate people, people who share your passion. As a person, youâre
not only interested in entrepreneurship and blog radio and all that stuff. You also may be interested in
kids if youâre a parent, or you might be interested in workouts if youâre a woman or clothes or fashion or
something like that, and on that topic, you want to find the like-minded people that you can share that
passion with without annoying the rest of the world that this is what youâre passionate about. Google
allows you to do that with Circles. If you think about the people in your own life--you have the circle of
friends, the circle of co-workers, your vendors, your partners, your family--if you go out on a night on
the town, your co-workers will never find out about it because theyâre not in the same circle as your
friend.
Travis: Okay, right.
Yifat: The same concept works on Google+. You can be a gamer and talk about World of Warcraft.
You can type it and all, but your parenting people will never know about this. You will feel like you are
interacting and engaging and you are being listened to and understood. You have so much fun
because you are talking with the same people. Thatâs what Google+ is about. It connects you based on
passion.
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Sandra: You know what Iâm thinking--is way back when I got an invitation for Facebook
from a friend of mine who lives way up in the Yukon, in Canada. I thought, âOkay, Iâll be your friend.â It
was, I donât know, two or three years before Facebook caught on and then all of a sudden was really
rolling and I thought, âWow, I was into this in the beginning. Who knew? â I thought it was so stupid
when I first got that. I thought--no one else joined in as a friend and Iâm like, âThis will never last.â
What Iâm thinking in the world of Google+ is I donât want that experience again. I want to be cutting
edge so, yes, Iâve been listening to this but⊠Yifat, Iâve also been to your website. I just signed up for
your VIP club. Iâm right here. Iâm getting started with understanding Google+ because I find myself--I
want all of that. Iâm a new author. Iâve got a good book. I want to get it out in the world. I want to use all
the tools that are there, and so Iâm excited to learn something new. I have a funny feeling some of our
listeners right now are doing the exact same thing while theyâre listening--is theyâre at their keyboards
looking you up as well.
Yifat: Awesome.
Sandra: So this is fun. What else? What should we know? How should we get started? We have
a really great group of entrepreneur-listeners that--after every episode, we like to have to have actions
steps that they can get started in something. I donât even know the appropriate questions to ask. This is
your floor.
Yifat: Right. Thank you. The challenge really, I think, is coming to Google+ and not knowing
how to engage with people, not knowing what to say and how to start a relationship with someone new
even if youâre passionate about the same thing. Thereâs a lot of information out there. So what Iâm trying
to do, Iâm launching this month--itâs not done yet--but Iâm launching a hands-on workshop.
Basically, weâre going to meet for two days, and Iâm going to teach you how to optimize your profile for
your keywords, how to build your auto sheet, how to engage with people, how to find your audience. Iâll
teach you that. Youâll go do it. Youâll come back. Weâll review for two days. By the end of it, youâll finish
with a complete profile and youâll know how to start getting followers and getting engagement.
Then this will follow up with an engagement workshop, Analytics, because you have to track what
youâre doing to know if you need to change anything, Hangouts, then Communities, and then Google+
Local.
So itâs six workshops thatâs hands on and itâll be in the course of the next six months. Hopefully, this
week Iâll be able to share with you the sign-up page so you can all join and get your profiles started.
Youâll join a community of people who are doing exactly the same thing. Itâs a supportive community to
help you grow and position yourself correctly in the Google sphere of influences.
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Sandra: Thatâs exciting.
Travis: Hey, Yifat, this is pre-recorded so by the time this comes out--itâs going to be
three or four weeks before this comes out, so all of that will be⊠If your timeline holds to what youâre
talking about, all of that will be live--when this goes live.
Yifat: So the URL would be googleplusgameplan.com.
Travis: Cool. Iâm glad youâre talking to that, talking to the usability in how to make it work
for you. Thatâs one of my issues with Google+ is itâs not very intuitive. I like Appleâs model to where they
make things so simple that you really donât need any instructions. With Google+, thatâs not the case. Iâm
pretty advanced on a lot of different platforms, and I find myself confused.
Yifat: Yes, and the other challenge is that they keep changing things. They keep improving
them. They get user feedback, and so they change the layout; they change where the buttons are. So,
yes, it is a challenge. Also, itâs a different mindset, interacting with people rather than posting all the
time; or starting curating and sharing, rather than creating your own content. Itâs a totally different
mindset that you have to come in to Google+ with. Maybe thatâs part of the challenge.
Travis: Yes. Do you feel like itâs not as good of a platform to curate content off of?
Yifat: No. Actually, itâs great. Google gives people ranks right now like they do for pages. You
can, if you have a high rank, you can outrank people for their own content. Iâll be happy to share a video
with you where I outranked a guy for authorship. I am not an author. I never talk about author rank and
authorship, but I outranked him. I guess because Google gave me a high rank.
Travis: Right, right.
Sandra: Wow. Thatâs cool.
Yifat: So itâs like if you start⊠But you know what, Sandra, whatâs really cool about it is that
you canât fake it. You have to actually get involved and engage with people before you get that rank.
For me, itâs wonderful because I think that if you are engaged, then you will give a lot of value to the
people who are following you, and so youâre deserving of that kind of rank because people like you and
you are serving them, rather than, âLook Iâm this guru and I know everything. Give me your 500 dollars,
and Iâll teach you half of what I know.â
Travis: Now how is that scalable for business owners that are super-busy? Is there a
model to where they can set up a staff member to help curate and keep things moving?
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Yifat: Yes, and you donât have to post every day, five times a day. You can build a strategy of
when youâre posting, what your keywords are. I use them in the title. Also, if you are connected to
people who post a lot and they share your information, then thatâs heaven, right? Because theyâre
sharing you instead of you having to go out and make sure youâre everywhere.
But also⊠Thereâs also. And Hangouts are huge, guys. If you guys are going to start doing a little bit of
a Hangout on Air and keyword them, like optimize your YouTube video, youâll be found way higher in
Search. Because Google really loves Hangouts right now, and they want to push people to use them. If
youâre using even a 10-minute Hangout, nothing big, just you on the screen talking a little bit or a 5-
minute Hangout, it will rank you higher and it will bring more clicks and eyes to your site and your
videos.
Sandra: Is a HangâŠ
Travis: How about moving this to our show to the Google Hangouts because weâve been
thinking about adding the video element to that. Do you think that would be worthwhile?
Yifat: Definitely. I mean, I encourage everybody to do that.
Sandra: Is a Hangout between, in the conversation, between two people or can someone
get up in 10 minutes, share something?
Yifat: Hangouts are a conversation between up to ten people. It can be you, Travis and eight
other people, like one guest and, you know, eight fans, for example. You can integrate YouTube into it.
You can integrate Drive. Instead of having a PowerPoint, you can have images that you bring in that
are lying over the face. Kind of like the news, like lower third, where you have those animations
happening and Jon Stewart on the side--you can have that. You can share your screen. You have so
many apps in there. You can mute people. You can have effects, all kind of sweet things. But itâs live so
that might be different for you guys. You can pre-record, of course, and share it afterwards, but you can
take that like--this is a video, right? So you can take a video. You can turn it into a transcript. You can
download the mp3s, and now you have the podcast format. You can turn it into an entire product. When
you interview people, you can actually create a little kindle out of it.
Travis: I know the video capacity is 10. Can you get anybody, more people on there than
that that just canât get on video?
Yifat: You have millions of people watching. So if itâs on air, theyâre watching you and you
decide how many people are there. You can also rotate people. You can say, âHey, you can come in,
ask a question. When youâre done, drop out, and Iâll invite someone else in.â
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Travis: Okay. Okay. So itâs basically the full-blown, GoToWebinar model that is just
automatically uploading up to YouTube. Thatâs really what I see it as, right?
Yifat: Yes, yes. And, also, it can be shared. So all the people who are on Hangout watching it
and all the people on the Hangout, all the people who are watching the Hangout, everybody could
share it like they share a YouTube video. You can embed it on your site, so itâs kind of like youâre
embedded like any other YouTube video on your site. Rather than sending people to YouTube where
they lose you, you can send them to your site and have a call to action right next to it.
If this was on a Hangout, for example, we could have had a little sign-up form to direct people to join my
program, for example. You wonât have to tell them, âHey, hereâs the link, blah, blah.â You just say,
âHere, right here to the right if youâre interested, you know, click here.â
Travis: Now does it always have to be live?
Yifat: Hangouts on Air are live. You can make it in private if you want to, just for your
members, by removing the post from your stream in Google+ and setting your YouTube channel not to
show the live videos that youâre having. You can come afterwards and make it private. You might get
the five eyes, depending how popular you are, but you might gain a few people watching it live, and
then you make it private and you release it whenever you want to.
Travis: Right. Right. Okay. So what are the five things you think people are missing
whenever theyâre setting up their Google+ channel or⊠Well, I donât want to get in trouble with you.
Weâll say Google platform.
Yifat: The Google Profile.
Travis: Yes, there you go.
Yifat: A few things. One, theyâre not putting up a banner, so it makes them lazy, seem lazy.
They donât put up a picture, so theyâre showing up as blue heads, and many people donât Circle blue
heads because a lot of spammers donât take the time to optimize their profile. They donât add any
description, so you would go to their profile and it just says male, you know, Texas. Youâre like, âI donât
know this person,â so theyâre not allowing you to get to know them. Theyâre not setting up any of their
keywords, so if youâre searching for, you know, blogger, theyâre not going to come up, so they are
missing the random or the organic Circling that Google offers. What else? Theyâre posting, posting,
posting, posting and not interacting, not engaging, not finding other people to converse with.
Travis: Okay. When you went to my Google+ channel, were you impressed? Iâm just kidding.
Sandra: You did that with a straight face, didnât you? Iâm thinking, âOh, my gosh! Wow!â
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Travis: I caught you there, Yifat.
Yifat: I donât really remember actually finding you in Google.
Sandra: See? There you go.
Travis: I actually am in there, yes, and Iâve got an assistantâŠ
Yifat: I found you. Okay, hold on. Let me see. No, you know what, actually, I was impressed
because the banner that you have is amazing. Itâs really, really cool. Yes, and it actually made me go
like, âWow, yes, I want to be on that show.â
Travis: Youâre saving my ego. Thank you.
Yifat: No, itâs really good. Yes. Let me tell you something else. Your profile picture is perfect
because to receive authorship in Google, you have to have a smiling face in there. If you put anything
else like, I donât know, your dog or something⊠I saw people put their underwear.
Sandra: No.
Yifat: Yes. Crazy, right? You wonât be found in Search. Google is not going to put your image
next to your content. So what you have there is beautiful.
Travis: Nice. What did we get wrong?
Yifat: What do you mean?
Travis: With the setup there, Iâve got an assistant that helps me with everything. In
setting up this profile, what did we miss? What did we not do right?
Yifat: Youâre missing some of the story. You have a few keywords, but your introduction is, âI
teach business owners the secret to an extremely profitable and fun business while working less.â That
doesnât tell me anything about you. Thatâs LinkedIn, right? I want to know Travis. I want to know you as
a person.
Travis: Right.
Yifat: And I want to know more keywords, like introduction, more than just two sentences.
Also, in the introduction, thatâs how Google decides where toâŠ
Travis: Break you or where to place you?
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Yifat: Yes, there you go--where to place you. So if Iâm looking at the introduction and all I have
is âbusiness owners,â âextremely profitableâ--nobodyâs going to look for this, right? If they put anything
like âentrepreneursâ or âpodcaster,â anything, youâre not going to come up, so you need to change that.
Sandra: I see.
Travis: Good point.
Yifat: You have that in the Bragging Rights. You have speaker, teacher, author. Bragging
Rights is not part of what Google looks at for SEO because thatâs just a fun place to say, you know, âI
was in the Israeli army, and I didnât shoot anyone.â
Sandra: Right. But they look in the introduction.
Yifat: Right, exactly. Tagline also is not in the SEO part of your About page, so you can be fun
there, like you are. Change your strategy, change your business, change your life. But the introduction--
put some links in there, call to action, like, âI have this radio talk show. This is where to find it,â
backlinks. This will actually be backlinks from Google to your website.
Travis: I thought you critiquing what weâve done is a great way to illustrate some of the
things that you teach. For me, I love to see examples. When I can hear someone draw exact examples,
then I can parallel that to my own business. Does that make sense?
Yifat: Yes, exactly. Iâll give you that during the workshop. Iâll show you a few people who are
doing it very well. But you donât have to wait for me. What you can do is to go to Google+ and search
for the keyword that you want to be found for and find the people Google suggests to you and just see
how they wrote their About page.
Travis: Thatâs great advice. Iâm actually jotting that down right now.
Sandra: Me, too. This is a great interview. What else should we know? This is a quiet moment. I
donât know what to ask and Iâm very excited as a student.
Yifat: I think what you probably⊠Let me see. Hold on. I see Travis you joined Communities,
and thatâs really great. When you post your Community and you post on your profile, Google shows
both posts on your stream, and so it shows as if youâre posting the same thing over and over again and
youâre kind of like spamming your readers. Thereâs a setting on your profile that says, âDonât show my
Community posts.â If you do that, all theyâll see is what youâre sharing publicly, and the posts that you
share with the Community will stay within the Community.
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Travis: Iâve always wondered about that. I thought, âWhy is this showing up multiple
times?â So itâs just a setting there.
Yifat: Just a setting, yes.
Travis: Okay. You were so quick with the top five things that people should be doing. It
sounded to me like that well is much deeper for you. Is there some other things that come off the top of
your head that people should be doing? Not to put you on the spot.
Yifat: No, no. Iâm just thinking how deep you want me to go.
Travis: Well, just simple fixes for now. Anything beyond the quick changes I think really
should be put into context and taught through some of the videos that you already put out. Were there
any other quick fixes that come to mind?
Yifat: Well, yes. Okay. So one of the things is hashtags. The same way that you are using
hashtags in Twitter, Google trends hashtags. If you search for anything on Google, even the word just
âhat,â letâs say, whatever youâre searching. This would have been great in a Hangout because I would
have shown you my screen and walked you through it. Today, for example, trending on Google+:
âMayDate,â âWe love you, Hambertonâ--I donât know what that isââGalaxy 4,â âWaterfall Wednesday,â
so if any of the words, the hashtags, were trending on Google+ fit anything that you can write about,
then people will start discovering you organically just from the search, just from the hashtags.
Travis: Okay.
Yifat: If there are any of the hashtags that you want to be known for, create a little Google
Drive page, like a document in Google Drive or wherever, post it or something--better yet, on the
computer so you can just copy and pasteâand just keep the hashtags you want to be known for. Every
time you post something about that, use those hashtags. But take it a step further. Look for the same
hashtags, find out who is using those hashtags, and interact with them, because now you found
someone passionate about the same thing. You start building friendships and relationships based on
your passions and your interests.
Travis: That makes sense. I didnât know anything about the hashtags.
Yifat: Itâs little things that Google puts in there and youâre like, âWhat is that?â
Sandra: This is exciting. I want to just say, Yifat, that youâre following your passion. Youâre
doing something new and unique. I think a lot of times as entrepreneurs we think we should be doing
something one way, thatâs what everybody else is doing, thatâs the right way. Youâre really showing us
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that you can totally step out into unchartered territory, do your own thing, follow your passion. I have a
question as an entrepreneur. How do you monetize your expertise to make this all into a business?
Yifat: Finally, people are getting to the point where theyâre like, âI want someone to teach me
Google+,â or, âI want, actually, a few +1s, and Iâll pay someone to get me the +1s.â So I can coach you
on how to do it yourself. I can do it for you, or I can actually speak to you about this and you can do
whatever you want with it. Iâm a speaker, Iâm a coach, strategy coach, and I also do it for you. If youâre a
business owner and youâre not interested in getting the followers and building engagement and getting
the +1s, then Iâll be happy to do it for you.
Sandra: I need to ask because Iâm not clear what a +1 is. I know I want them, but what is
it? Iâm a newbie, and I donât think Iâm the only one.
Yifat: No, thatâs perfect. Thatâs awesome. This is going to a different topic of--a new topic
thatâs called emotional SEO, which is causing people to actually take action and share and comment
and +1. So +1, you can think about it like the Like of Facebook. The difference is the Like of Facebook,
again, stays in Facebook, and +1 is all over the Web. Your +1s can be visible to other people. They can
show up in Search when you +1 and add. They can show up on YouTube videos as, âHey, Sandra liked
this one.â And it tells your Circles and your connections what you like, what your preferences are. It tells
Google what you like and what your preferences are so they can offer you more of what you like and
what your preferences are. So you want to get a lot of +1s on your post because that actually tells
Google that, âHey, this is a valid post.â
Travis: And a +1 is below in the organic search section, Sandra. Thereâs a little +1 that
you can press so that indicates that you like it. Itâs basically Googleâs version of a thumbs up.
Yifat: Like. Yes. Where Google+ messed up and actually made your job harder is that if you
think about the Like of Facebook, thereâs an emotional weight to Like, right? You like something. You
donât like it. Thatâs kind of like an emotion. Where +1 is very neutral, so people donât give a lot of +1s
because they donât think about it. Itâs not like, âI want a thumbs up for you.â Itâs not like, âOkay, I like
this.â
There are four levels of engagement. Now weâre going even deeper. There are four levels of
engagement. The lowest one is the +1 and that says, âHey, I kind of like it. I have nothing to say. Hereâs
a thumbs up. You made me laugh,â or something. The second one is comment. Itâs actually, âYou made
me think. I want to say something.â The third one is sharing. Itâs like, âI like it, and I also want to tell the
world that I did.â The fourth one is Hangouts, and thatâs really taking my time, meeting with you face to
face, and sharing my likes and dislikes or my thoughts with you.
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When you start a relationship with someone--letâs say you did a search for a hashtag, and you found
someone that shares your interest in podcasting, and you start talking to them. You canât just jump to
bed right away and say, âHey, letâs hang out.â You want to build up. You want to start with a +1, the
comments, the shares, and one of theâŠ
Hereâs a super tip for you guys to get someone to love you right away. If I want to build rapport with
Travis or Sandra, and Iâm going to your profiles, and I see something that I really love, Iâm going to
share it on my stream and Iâm going to say, âOh my god, I just saw Sandra writing something brilliant. I
canât believe she thought about it. She is such a wonderful speaker. Guys, you got to check it out.â
What will happen is Sandra will get a notification that says, âHey, Yifat said something about you.â
Sheâs going to go and see what I said about her and sheâll like, âWow, sheâs praising me? She doesnât
even know me. Whoâs that person?â Youâre going to like me right away because Iâm saying all these
nice things about you. Youâre going to come and check my profile, and in my profile youâre going to see
my About. Youâre going to see who I am. You can see my picture. Itâs going to be a made profile, so Iâm
not a blue head or a stranger to you, and youâre going to say something on my post. You might say,
âThanks for sharing,â or, âI appreciate that,â or, âWow.â If I added my own thoughts, you might continue
the conversation and now, we have a little something to build on or work from.
Travis: I like it.
Sandra: Thatâs great.
Yifat: It takes more time and it takes really caring about people and really getting to know
them, which is hard for network marketers because all they do is put up products out there and create
an automated webinar and if you want to really talk to them--I donât know, good luck.
Travis: Right, yes.
Yifat: This one is different and thatâs why a lot of people kind of have a hard time starting
because they donât⊠Not a lot of people really care about people, right?
Travis: On a deeper authentic level, yes. I agree with you.
Yifat: Thatâs why Iâm so passionate about it because I think this will change the world. Imagine
businesses really caring about their customer, kind of like the ââCheersâ mentality where everybody
knows your name, right? So they really care about you and they know what you like. They know your
likes and they cater to them and they change the business based on the likes of their customers.
And theyâre transparent because with the Hangout, itâs not just voice or text. You can see eye to eye,
like the white in your eyes. I can see if you like me or donât like me or if youâre a nice person or not.
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That transparency and that human interaction, I think, will change the world in ripples. I think it will
make people happier because theyâll connect with people who share the same passion. All three of us
right now are like, âYes, this is great.â That kind of happiness and excitement and passion will ripple,
and I think it will change the world. I want to be the catalyst behind it.
Travis: I like it.
Sandra: I want to play with you. This is awesome.
Yifat: Yeah!
Sandra: Yes.
Yifat: Awesome!
Sandra: We know video is the wave of the future. I mean, weâve got to be out there and on it.
Googleâs got more--I donât even know what you call it, but I mean, they just reach everywhere, and so it
makes sense. I think, Yifat, youâve just put the context around and made us understand that itâs not
another Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter. Itâs a whole different world, and itâs an important world. Youâve
helped us understand it, and now I feel comfortable to get some more information about it and actually
step in and play in the water. Iâm excited.
Travis: Yes. Hey, I have a question for you. Do you know why Google sent you an invite in the
very beginning, if there was just such a⊠Iâm sure youâre extremely special in your own special way,
but what was it that made them select you in this beta group, you think? Do you know?
Yifat: I have no idea. Iâm trying to come up with a really smart, unique thing, and Iâm like⊠I
have nothing.
Travis: Well, I mean, itâs probably because youâre beautiful. Iâm naturally inquisitive, so Iâm
always thinking, hmmâŠ
Yifat: I know. Why did I get the invite? Thatâs what youâre thinking, âIâm a geek. Iâm doing all
this stuff online. Iâm like that. Why didnât I get the invite? I would have jumped in.â
Travis: Why not me, too?
Sandra: Where were you, Yifat, before getting involved with Google+? Because before⊠I mean,
I know, in my life, Iâve changed so many passions, and itâs all okay because they build upon each other.
What were you up to career-wise before you jumped into this new love?
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Yifat; Iâm very embarrassed to say, actually. So pre-history⊠How far do you want to go? I
traveled South America. I backpacked by myself for eight months, and then I came to the US and I had
to become a student because I was on a tourist visa. So I said, âOkay, Iâll go to UT in Texas, and Iâll
study something, and I didnât know what.â My friend said, âWell, you like Spanish. Why donât you study
Spanish?â I said okay, so I studied Spanish, and then when that was over, I started network marketing.
It was in the technology--like I found companies that do technology stuff. I realized I really didnât like
that, but I liked the Internet. I like building websites and I like to search and finding--people finding me
and buying from me without me having to talk to them. I didnât like the convincing aspect of network
marketing, âYou could make a million dollars, just join me and find five other friends.â
Sandra: Right.
Yifat: But I love the products, and the products are awesome. If I can educate you on the
product, then I donât have to convince you to do anything. Iâm fine with you just buying the product and
using it. That was what I was doing. I was building websites, writing articles and doing videos and all
that stuff. Then Google+ came along.
Travis: Donde vive?
Yifat: Donde vivo? In Austin, Texas.
Travis: Okay.
Yifat: Weâre neighbors.
Travis: Yes, Iâm in Houston, Texas. I didnât realize that you were in Austin.
Yifat: If youâre coming to us, then, Travis, letâs have coffee.
Travis: Yes, definitely. I come to Austin quite often.
Yifat: Yes. Well, you know how to reach me. And Iâm reading myâŠ
So hereâs a few more things. Iâm reading my Google+ a lot, so if you want to mention me⊠But Iâm also
starting this new experiment that you guys might be interested in. On the app, on the mobile app, there
is a feature thatâs called Messenger. It allows you to connect with 50 people at a time on their mobile
device. My problem, my issue right now, is that itâs hard for me to connect with my 44,000 followers. I
want to find a group of more engaged people and connect with them daily on my phone. So I sent out
an e-mail to all my followers and all my people in my membership club and I said, âHey, if you want to
connect with me on your phone, join my circle, and weâll interact there.â If you, guys, would like to be
part of that messaging thing, I want to see how you can bring Google+ into the mobile device and build
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higher engagement because I think thatâs where the money is, not just the followers, and see if
connecting the two will actually increase conversions and engagements and followers and all that stuff.
Travis: Interesting. Yes, I think the amount of engagement with someone speaks to the level of
raving fan they are, right?
Yifat: Yes. You know whatâs really interesting? Everybody who comes to Google+ or any other
platform, theyâre running after followers. If you have a million-and-a-half followers, youâre superstar and
you have some clout because of the number of the followers. I think the real measurement is the
engagement. How many people comment? How many people share? How many people +1 your post?
You can be talking to the void, and you can have a million-and-a-half fake followers who donât even
check you out.
Travis: Yes, agree with you.
Yifat: Thereâs a guy, Curt Smith, who has 34, 000 followers and he gets about 200 comments
and shares for every post that he does.
Travis: Wow.
Yifat: He bypasses people with three-and-a-half million followers in the amount of interactions
that he gets. The next question, Travis, is what does he post about? Heâs consulting. Heâs a marriage
consultant. He uses the emotions that we talked about before. He talks about cheating and about
divorce and about love and about relationships, stuff that kind of stirs people to react and uses a lot of
images. You see a love image or you see a word or something, but it makes you react. It makes you
comment and share.
Travis: Right. Yes. In the political world, that is called demagoguing. They talk about stuff that
stir you up.
Yifat: Yes, yes.
Travis: Emotionally stir you up.
Yifat: Yes, but if you take that now, if youâre thinking about ranking and you realize that Google
now ranks based on social signals, and to get social signals, you have to stir something of an emotion.
Thereâs a new field thatâs called emotional SEO, and then how do you do that in your posts so that you
get more engagement interaction? Go for that. Go for the long run, the marathon. How do I increase my
engagement? And the followers will come, but it doesnât really matter because if you get 200 shares,
youâre going to be ranking higher than someone with a million-and-half followers who never talk to you.
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Travis: Right. Well, you know, I interviewed Guy Kawasaki, and heâs got a ton of people in his
Google+, right?
Yifat: Yes.
Travis: I want to say heâs got something like two million followers or people in his Circle or
however you say that.
Yifat: Yes, four million.
Travis: Okay, four million.
Sandra: Wow.
Travis: But if you look at the interaction, the Likes or 300 Likes on a postâŠ
Yifat: He gets about 45 comments and 79 shares per post, which is nice.
Travis: But still four out of four million?
Yifat: Exactly. The ratio is not that big, yes.
Travis: I asked him about it, on air, and he told me⊠I said, âGuy, you have four million people
in your Google+.â He goes, âOh, well, Google invited meâ and then also made him a recommendation
early on.
Yifat: Yes, yes. Itâs called a Suggested User List. There are people who⊠Everybody who
comes in to Google, Google suggests people and itâs like, âHey, if you want news, these are the news
people. If you want technology, these are the technology people.â So, Guy gets a bunch of people who
just add him by default.
Travis: Yes, which is really kind of a waste of time other than for ego, ego measuring. Hey, Iâm
not trying to give any commentary on Guy because Guy is a great person, but to have this gigantic
number of people that are connected to you but they really donât care about what youâre talking about or
theyâre passionate about is just irrelevant, right?
Yifat: Yes, exactly. The challenge really is how do you build engagements in Google+? If you
think about this, Travis, the average person, a $1,000 a month will change your life. It will be a car
payment. It may mean more vacations. Just 1,000 bucks. To get 1,000 bucks from 1,000 followers by
charging 10 dollars for just 100 people of them, thatâs not a lot of effort. You will be able to get that kind
of money just from engaging with 100 people. Thatâs not brain surgery. Thatâs not hard. Thatâs
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something that you really care about. And if those 100 people are really passionate about what youâre
doing, youâre not selling anything. Youâre just simply sharing with them, and theyâre loving you for it.
Travis: Yes, and youâre furthering their cause in whatever theyâre trying to do. Whatever youâre
teaching them, youâre helping them move one step closer to that goal.
Yifat: Right. So, I will encourage people not to go for the followers, but to go for the
engagement.
Travis: There you go, there you go.
Sandra: Perfect.
Travis: Hey, weâre getting close on time, so I have to ask you⊠We have to segue into the
lightning round. Are you ready for the lightning round?
Yifat: I am.
Travis: You are? Now I sent you a couple of questions as we talked. We like this to be an
organic conversation, although thereâs a few questions that really require some deeper thought to come
up with an answer. The first one is: If you and Sandra were on an arm-wrestling contest, who would
win?
Yifat: Sandra.
Travis: You think Sandra would win?
Yifat: No, probably with my military background, Israeli military background, Iâd probably...
Travis: You look pretty tough.
Sandra: Iâm pretty strong. Iâm going to have to come to Austin.
Yifat: Itâs with oil or without oil?
Travis: Letâs start without, see where it goes from there. Okay. What book or program made an
impact on you related to business that you would most recommend and why?
Yifat: Iâm reading âThe Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Aliveâ by
Brendon Burchard.
Travis: Yes.
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Yifat: Itâs great because, again, itâs going back to passion. If you know what drives you, youâll
wake up in the morning energized and happy. One of the things that really caught my eye there is that
you donât have to have arrived to live a charged life, which to me itâs like, âYeah!â
Travis: Good news, right?
Yifat: Yes. Itâs great. It makes you realize what youâre good at and go for it. I canât remember
who said it, maybe the most interesting man in the world, who said, âFind out what youâre weak at and
donât do it.â
Travis: Good advice.
Yifat: Right? So just find out what youâre really good at and attract the people who will make
your life charged and passionate.
Travis: All right. Brendonâs a good guy. I was in his Mastermind.
Yifat: Oh, really? Wow.
Travis: Yes. Iâve been through many training programs with him. Iâve done his personal
mastermind and heâs a super, super sharp and good guy.
Yifat: Okay, and another thing from him⊠Tell him heâs great. The thing that he said,
âCelebrate your daily successes.â Thatâs a game-changer right there because we never do. We never
feel like weâre enough. We didnât finish everything. We didnât do everything that we need to. But if you
stop and realize, âHey, I just learned to ride a bike today. Let me celebrate.â Before you go to the
jumping and stuff like that, then, you feel like youâre actually improving. Thatâs an intimate part of
actually being a good entrepreneur, always moving.
Travis: Yes, I agree with you. Hey, whatâs your favorite tools or pieces of technology that you
recently discovered, if any, that youâd like to recommend to other business owners and why?
Yifat: Can I give you two guesses?
Travis: Sure, sure.
Yifat: No, you guess.
Sandra: Google+ and Hangouts.
Yifat: Yeah!
Travis: You passed, Sandra.
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Sandra: Iâm smarter of the two of us, Travis.
Travis: I know. Youâre not supposed to tell everybody that.
Sandra: Oh, they already know.
Travis: What famous quote would best summarize your belief or your attitude in business?
Yifat: Thatâs Zig Ziglar: âYou can have anything you want in life if you help enough people to
get what they want in life.â
Sandra: Love it.
Travis: Agree with it. Great quote. What do you dream of?
Yifat: Last night, I dreamt that I shot a lady and she fell from really, really high and made a
splash that made her come out of the water again. I donât know why.
Travis: You shot her?
Yifat: I shot her with a gun. She asked me to. I donât know why.
Travis: Wow.
Sandra: I can translate that into: youâre the type of person that injects people with passion
and gets them out of their comfort zone so that they can make a splash in their business and impact
millions of lives. Howâs that?
Yifat: I love you. That was awesome.
Travis: That was brilliant. Yifat, how do people connect with you?
Yifat: Best on my Google+ profile, but you have to send me a private message and let me
know that youâre following me so I know that you are, or connect with me on comments and shares and
also my website gplusgotogal.com. I check all my e-mails and I read all my comments from there. Iâm
very engaged.
Travis: Excellent. I want to personally thank you for taking time out to spend with us
today. You gave us a lot of extremely valuable information on an area that is kind of a mystery to a lot
of us, so I thank you for that. Youâre an absolute pleasure to spend time with. Sandra?
Sandra: I feel the same way. Itâs like all of a sudden thereâs a door or a window that I
didnât know was in the room. By opening it, thereâs this whole new area with new results, new fun. I
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love, love, love the idea of building relationships because we all know that itâs within relationships that
weâre the most successful and weâre the happiest. Thanks for sharing that. Iâm personally very excited
to learn more about Google+ and Hangouts and you and be your friend and support you and your
mission to help others, so thanks.
Yifat: Thank you, guys, for having me. This is fun. Iâm happy to talk about my passion anytime
you want.
Travis: Yes. Excellent. Can you hang out for a couple more minutes?
Yifat: Yes.
Travis: All right. Listen, I want to remind you guys that you can go to diyob.com, which is
short for diamondinyourownbackyard.com, and youâll find all of the links to the resources and the books
and the show notes, everything that weâve basically talked about in this interview.
Also, while youâre there, enter your name and e-mail and weâll send you the â2013 Business Ownerâs
Guide to a Profitable Million Dollar Business.â Itâs a candid behind-the-scenes look of what you need to
know to grow your business to incredible levels of success. What I tell you in the guide is critical to your
success, and no oneâs really talking about many of these issues because I feel like itâs not in their best
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Before we end the show today, we want to remind you, whether you know it or not, no matter where
you are as an entrepreneur, that what youâre doing matters, and youâre an inspiration to those around
you to go after their dreams, too. We want to encourage you to keep it up. Right, Sandra?
Sandra: Right, Travis.
Travis: So, are you ready for my quote or our quote for today?
Sandra: I am.
Travis: Do you want to read the quote?
Sandra: Arenât you funny as we are 2,000 miles away from each other, and we are not in
the Google Hangout that I could see whatâs on your screen. Right, Yifat?
Yifat: Exactly.
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End of Interview
Travis: Right. Thatâs just me being difficult.
Sandra: Always. Keeps me on my toes.
Travis: Yes, I know. I try to throw you a fast ball every now and then. The quote today
comes from Henry Ward Beecher, and the quote reads: âYour best successes come after their
disappointments.â
This is Travis Lane Jenkins signing off for now. Sandra, say good-bye.
Sandra: Everybody, this is Sandra Champlain and saying not only good-bye, but often
what we really desire is just outside of our comfort zone, so take a chance today and maybe go to
Google+ and try Google and check it out.
Travis: Youâre good. I like it.
Sandra: Always.
Travis: All right. So, listen, to your incredible success, take care.
Sandra: Bye-bye.
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