#1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses

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Andrew Warner

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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I’ll be honest with you. I felt guilt about an interview that I did years ago with today’s guest. This was back in, let me see here, 2013. I interviewed Sam Ovens about how he built up this consulting business and was teaching people how to do consulting. I thought maybe I got taken for a ride. It was too good to be true. Then I started hearing people who were in his program talk about how big the program is. Then I started hearing more and more people say they were in the program. I realized, “Actually maybe I underestimated the guy.” And the more research I did into it, the more I realized that was true. Then I went hat in hand and said, “Hey, Sam, can I interview you again on Mixergy?” Sam Ovens is the founder of Consulting.com, it offers online training programs to help everyday people start their own consulting businesses.

Sam Ovens is the founder of Consulting.com, it offers online training programs to help everyday people start their own consulting businesses. Sam’s hosting a free webinar which shows you in detail how to start your own consulting business, click here to register for the free training.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I'm the founder of MixRu.com. And I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I'll be honest with you, I felt guilt about an interview that I did years ago with today's guest. This was back in, let me see here, 2012, 2013. I interviewed Sam Ovens about how he built up this
0:24.4	consulting business and was teaching people how to do consulting. And I thought, maybe I got
0:30.6	taken for a ride. I probably did get taken for a ride. He's probably just like making up his
0:35.5	numbers. It was too good to be true. And he's maybe just trying to do this to get people sign up. And I felt like, like guilt. I said, maybe I shouldn't even be doing these kinds of interviews. Anyway, for years, for months, I felt that, maybe a couple of years. And then I started hearing people who are in his program talk about how big the program is. Then I started hearing more and more people say that they
0:58.4	were in the program. And I realized, actually, maybe I underestimated the guy. Maybe I'd been
1:05.0	beating myself up for no good reason. Maybe Sam's program actually not only just works, but it's,
1:10.6	it's been generating real
1:11.6	revenue and the numbers I had weren't wrong. They're actually bigger now. And the more research
1:17.2	I did into it, the more I realized that was true. And then I went like hat in hand and I said,
1:21.2	hey, Sam, can I interview you again on Mixergy? And he had a positive experience. He emailed back.
1:26.8	He said, yes, and that's what we're talking about here today.
1:29.3	Sam Ovens is the founder of and da-da-da-da-da, here's a new domain name.
1:34.6	It's consulting.com is a new domain name.
1:37.1	What a freaking good domain name.
1:39.1	It offers online training programs to help everyday people start their own consulting businesses.
1:45.4	And we're going to talk about how he got here from where he was years ago. And the whole thing
1:50.4	is sponsored by two companies that I'll tell you more about later. The first will help you hire
1:54.1	a great developer. It's called TopTal. The second will help you close more sales. It's called
1:59.6	Pipe Drive and I'll tell you more about them later.
2:03.0	Hey, Sam, how did it feel to hear me talk?
2:06.0	Did you notice, by the way, that I was feeling like maybe you were, like, snowing me and telling me more than was there?
2:13.9	Yeah, I mean, I'm not surprised at all that I've had that experience.
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