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by Dixie Maria Carlton Brad Hauck
The Expert's Journey: How Authors & Speakers Build Profitable Businesses with Books & MarketingTurn your book into a business-building asset. Learn proven strategies to leverage your expertise, get booked as a speaker, and create multiple income streams beyond the page.Are you an author, speaker, or expert who wants to use your book as a powerful marketing tool to book speaking gigs, grow your authority, and build a profitable business? This podcast delivers the strategies you need to transform from writer to sought-after thought leader.Hosted by Brad Hauck (author of AI Powered Profits and international digital marketing expert "Mr Web Marketing") and Dixie Carlton (publisher and author of Start With the Draft), this show provides actionable insights to help experts monetize their knowledge through books, speaking, and smart marketing.Bra
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Talk To Us Directly Most expert content disappears within 48 hours, buried under the next scroll — and the algorithm never sends it to anyone twice. In this episode, Brad Hauck explains how treating YouTube as a search engine rather than a social feed helps expert speakers and authors build a content library that attracts ideal prospects, builds trust, and drives book sales, courses, and mentoring for years. You'll learn how YouTube's algorithm rewards watch time over virality, why nich...
Talk To Us Directly Why Fake Experts Win Online (and How Real Pros Can Compete Ethically) In this episode of The Expert’s Journey, Brad and Dixie explore why fake experts often draw bigger online audiences than genuine professionals, arguing that confidence, certainty, and strong marketing frequently outperform real experience. They discuss how gurus hide incompetence through short-form content, teams, ghostwriting, and AI, and how audiences confuse absolutes and simplicity with experti...
Talk To Us Directly This episode explores whether conferences will increasingly value workshops over traditional keynotes as audiences seek outcomes, not just inspiration, in a world where AI and online content make ideas cheap and abundant. Brad and Dixie discuss shifting attendee expectations, the emerging “key shop” format that blends presentation with real-time action, and how event design (session length, number of speakers, stages, and virtual vs. physical delivery) affects learni...
Talk To Us Directly This episode of Expert’s Journey explores the “expertise trap,” arguing that many experts don’t need better marketing so much as better translation of their knowledge into clear, simple value for beginners. Brad and Dixie discuss how jargon, frameworks, and the “curse of knowledge” can widen the gap between what experts want to explain and what audiences need to hear, causing confusion, lost sales, and even bad reviews when expectations aren’t set clearly. They...
Talk To Us Directly In this episode of The Expert’s Journey, Dixie and Brad unpack where to draw the line between making ideas clear and thinning them into something shallow. They discuss how experts can lose objectivity, either oversimplifying to be understood or overcomplicating to satisfy ego, and argue that strong communication removes confusion without removing meaning. The conversation covers using frameworks, gradual testing of new material, and building “bridges” that step audie...
Talk To Us Directly In this Experts Journey podcast episode, Dixie and Brad explore what true influence looks like by asking what your industry would lose if you stopped speaking, writing, or publishing. They discuss the difference between being visible and being valuable, the importance of purpose, legacy, and uniqueness, and why challenging your industry and taking a clear stand can create cut-through. They argue that real impact is best measured by behavioral change in others—whether...
Talk To Us Directly Brad and Dixie explore who really decides what becomes a “big idea,” contrasting merit with visibility, repetition, timing, and the zeitgeist. They discuss how adoption often takes years despite “overnight success” narratives, using examples like WhatsApp, Slack, QR codes (boosted by pandemic needs and phone camera scanning), and the persistence of PowerPoint due to standards and compatibility. They note that big ideas don’t always win on quality alone and may succee...
Talk To Us Directly In this Experts Journey Podcast episode, Dixie and Brad explore what an “AI version of you” can look like, from a trained assistant or public chatbot to an AI video clone, and why the key question is whether you should use it. We explain how AI can help you produce high volumes of content by training an assistant on your writing and edits, then pairing it with tools like HeyGen to generate and auto-post short videos, or repurpose articles and transcriptions from olde...
The Expert's Journey: How Authors & Speakers Build Profitable Businesses with Books & MarketingTurn your book into a business-building asset. Learn proven strategies to leverage your expertise, get booked as a speaker, and create multiple income streams beyond the page.Are you an author, speaker, or expert who wants to use your book as a powerful marketing tool to book speaking gigs, grow your authority, and build a profitable business? This podcast delivers the strategies you need to transform from writer to sought-after thought leader.Hosted by Brad Hauck (author of AI Powered Profits and international digital marketing expert "Mr Web Marketing") and Dixie Carlton (publisher and author of Start With the Draft), this show provides actionable insights to help experts monetize their knowledge through books, speaking, and smart marketing.Bra
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