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		<title>E33: How to Become a Regular Media Guest and Paid Media Contributor? And More Tips About Investments, Acquisitions, Exit Strategies, Valuations &#8211; Interview with Carol Roth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Carol Roth (Business Strategist, Media Contributor, and Expert in Raising Capital, Mergers &#38; Acquisitions, and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Equation Book) The Strategies that Helped The Entrepreneur Equation book to Hit the New York Times Best Selling List? What’s the difference between a Jobbie, a Job and a Business? What&#8217;s The difference [...]</p>
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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Carol Roth </strong></h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">(Business Strategist, Media Contributor, and Expert in Raising Capital, Mergers &amp; Acquisitions, and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Equation Book)</h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1463" src="https://beefficient.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Carol-Roth_-on-Be-Efficient-TV-with-Ahmed-Al-Kiremli-4.jpg" alt="Carol Roth_ on Be Efficient TV with Ahmed Al Kiremli 4" width="375" height="512" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Strategies that Helped The Entrepreneur Equation book to Hit the New York Times Best Selling List?</strong></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>What’s the difference between a Jobbie, a Job and a Business? What&#8217;s The difference between Financial and Strategic Buyers? </strong><strong>What is FIRED-UP? </strong><strong>What’s the M&amp;A process? Tips about Investments, Acquisitions, Exit Strategies, Media Strategies, How to put the right Valuation for a Company</strong></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"></h3>
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<h2 class="interview">Video Interview</h2>
<p><strong>With English and Arabic Subtitle</strong></p>
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<h2 class="bio">Bio</h2>
<p>Carol Roth is a national media personality, ‘recovering’ investment banker, investor, speaker and author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling book, <em>The Entrepreneur Equation</em>. She is currently an on-air contributor for the national cable television station <a href="https://search.cnbc.com/main.do?target=all&amp;categories=exclude&amp;keywords=carol%20roth">CNBC</a>, the preeminent name in business news. Carol’s multimedia commentary covers business and the economy, current events, politics and pop culture topics.</p>
<p>Previously, Carol was the host of The Noon Show, a current events talk show on WGN Radio and prior to joining CNBC, Carol was seen weekly on a variety of national television outlets including <a href="https://www.CarolRoth.com/video">Fox Business, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC</a>.</p>
<p>Carol has worked with hundreds of companies, ranging from a single entrepreneur with an idea to <em>Fortune 500</em> businesses, on all aspects of business and financial strategy. Collectively, she has helped her clients raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete $750+ million in mergers and acquisitions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals and create 7-figure brand loyalty programs.</p>
<p>Carol Roth is a Expert in Raising Capital and Acquisitions, Business Strategist, and New York Times Best Selling Author of the book The Entrepreneur Equation</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Websites &amp; Social Media Links</strong> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.carolroth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.carolroth.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/caroljsroth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/caroljsroth</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-roth/b/376/653" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-roth/b/376/653</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Roth-The-Entrepreneur-Equation/133522800041844" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Roth-The-Entrepreneur-Equation/133522800041844</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Books</strong></span></p>
<p>[amazon template=iframe image&amp;asin=193561844X]</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Interview Questions</span></p>

<h2 class="transcript_english">Transcript</h2>
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<li><strong>Why from investment banking to hosting a radio show to business consulting then Authoring, what’s planned and not planned in this journey?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What’s The Entrepreneur Equation?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What’s the difference between a jobbie, a job and a business?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What is FIRED-UP?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How to put the right valuation for a company sold 0 and its in the idea phase but has a unique idea and another company sold $100000 during its first year but its idea is not so unique but it can be leveraged?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How do you help your clients raise capital, do you have access to some Angles or VCs or you teach them the strategy to how get into a VC or Angel Investors?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How much % of growth per year in terms of money a company should make to be able to get into the IPO level?</strong></li>
<li><strong>Who’s the major partners or team members or services that you work with to help company get acquired by another big company?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What’s the M&amp;A process?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are the types of business licensing deals and what are you specialized at in this area?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What kinds of businesses are sellable and how to make good decisions today to ensure that we can sell our business?</strong></li>
<li><strong>The difference between financial and strategic buyers, and how the sale process differs in relation to each group?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What we need to do today to prepare to get the maximum value in an exit</strong></li>
<li><strong>How to Boost Marketing and Sales of a Book?</strong></li>
<li><strong>Main strategies that helped in getting your book into the New York Times Best Selling List?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are the added benefits of The Entrepreneur Equation Fashion Doll in terms of marketing for your book or personal brand?</strong></li>
<li><strong>You also involved in fashion, are you a designer, investor or business partner in fashion?</strong></li>
<li><strong>You’ve been the host of The Noon Show, what did you learn from that experience and why you quit the show?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How to get featured in Wikipedia?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What’s the PR strategy that you use to get into the major TV channels? What’s your team exactly do to achieve than on regular basis?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are the marketing or publicity channels that you use to help your clients to reach a broader audience?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What’s the routine that you use to write constantly and efficiently?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How often you blog, the people who posted some blog posts on your blog are they from your team or they are other guest bloggers?</strong></li>
<li><strong>Why you don’t put a date on your blog posts?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How do you help your clients in terms of Content Creation/Syndication</strong></li>
<li><strong>How to get a Paid Speaking Gigs?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How much do you charge for an hourly sessions or a full day session with you?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How many team members are working with you and how you structure them?</strong></li>
<li><strong>When you make money in what you like to invest? Do you think capital gain or cash flow?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are your most important working tools?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What&#8217;s your daily life and work routine looks like? </strong></li>
<li><strong>What are your other hobbies?</strong></li>
<li><strong>Who’s your no.1 mentor?</strong></li>
<li><strong>The most important factors for success in 3 words?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are your top 3 favorite books?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? </strong></li>
<li><strong>Do you listen to any music when you work?</strong></li>
<li><strong>Do you follow any routine to sleep?</strong></li>
<li><strong>What makes you really happy?</strong></li>
<li><strong>How people can contact you?</strong></li>
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		<title>E10: How To Become A Joint Venture Broker And Make 7 Figure Deals Without Having A Product &#8211; Interview with Sohail Khan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed Al Kiremli</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Sohail Khan (The Founder of The Joint Venture Group and 7-Figures Joint Venture Expert) What are the Most Popular Types of JVs,  and How to Structure a JV Agreement And Close a JV Deal What’s the Difference between a Salesman Mindset and a JV Broker Mindset and How the JV broker get Paid Video Interview [...]</p>
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					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center;">Sohail Khan</h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">(The Founder of The Joint Venture Group and 7-Figures Joint Venture Expert)</h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-888" src="https://beefficient.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sohail-Khan-on-Be-Efficient-Tv-with-Ahmed-Al-Kiremli1.jpg" alt="Interview With Sohail Khan on Be Efficient Tv with Ahmed Al Kiremli" width="233" height="353" /></h2>
<h2 align="center"><strong>What are the Most Popular Types of JVs, </strong><strong> and How to Structure a JV Agreement And Close a JV Deal<br />
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>What’s the Difference between a Salesman Mindset and a JV Broker Mindset and How </strong><strong>the </strong><strong>JV broker get Paid</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span id="more-4121"></span></p>
<h2 class="interview">Video Interview</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>With English and Arabic Subtitle</strong></p>
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<h2 class="audio">Audio</h2>
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<h2 class="bio">Bio</h2>
<p>Sohail Khan is founder of The Joint Venture Group.</p>
<p>He has over 15 years of sales, marketing and joint venture experience.</p>
<p>Having previously built a multi-million pound internet training business which he started with just £1,000 in the year 2000, he then sold a majority stake to a £75M IT company in 2006.</p>
<p>In 2008 the IT company went bust and Sohail lost everything but retained the knowledge and expertise of building a business with over £5 Million in sales using just joint ventures.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Websites &amp; Social Media Links</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sohail-khan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sohail-khan.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://jvconsultingbusiness.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jvconsultingbusiness.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.jointventurecircle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jointventurecircle.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://ae.linkedin.com/in/sohailkhan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://ae.linkedin.com/in/sohailkhan</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thejointventureexpert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/thejointventureexpert</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Books</strong></span></p>
<p>[amazon template=iframe image&amp;asin=1630471569]</p>
<h2 class="interview_questions">Interview Questions</h2>
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<li><strong>What’s a JV in plain English?</strong></li>
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<ul>
<li><strong>What was your first JV deal? </strong></li>
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<li><strong>How did you make 1.5M in 30 days?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Why should anybody think of becoming a JV expert?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What’s the difference between a salesman mindset and a JV broker mindset?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What’s your biggest joint venture deal ever?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How often you close such big deals, every 1-2-3 years?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What are the most popular types of JVs?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tell us more about Licensing and how it can be used in a JV deal?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How to research and find JV deals?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How a JV broker should market himself and through which platform or tools?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Why the jv brokers often quit?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How an employee can be successful as JV Broker while he’s working from 9-5?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Is the JV broker get paid via fixed fee or commission, any JV agreement structures that you can share with us?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How to protect a JV deal?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>If you are just starting today in this industry from where you will start?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What’s the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?</strong></li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Don’t you think that the JV environment is very lonely and because of that its difficult to motivate yourself to excel in it?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Is there’s a successful JV teams that they work together on one deal or most of JV brokers are individuals? </strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Whats the productivity tools that you use to close more deals? </strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Whats the habits  that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Take us through your typical working day?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Share with us some of your new projects that you are currently working on?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tell us about Dojo Learning?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Joint Venture field?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tell us about your coming book?</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>How people can find you or contact you?</strong></li>
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