How to build a big following online and get media placements with Josh Elledge

Episode: 95

Josh Elledge

Join David Pere (The Military Millionaire Podcast) with Josh Elledge as he talks about the importance of your online presence and the lessons he learned in his career. In this day and age, and especially as entrepreneurs, it’s essential to grow your audience and create a community around our identity. They get into the changing aspect of human contact versus the rise of technological connection as the internet starts to become more and more prevalent. Josh expresses that success is always on the backside of failure as he recalls his experience with bankruptcy.

By the end of the episode, you will learn to value your identity on the web, learn from the masters around you, and serve your audience correctly. Stay tuned, and enjoy the podcast!

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About Josh Elledge:

Josh Elledge is an adult man with a child-like, irrational fear of umbrellas. You could ask him to explain–but if he could–it wouldn’t be an irrational fear, now would it? A nice midwestern boy from Michigan, Josh also used to be fat. Not just chubby, or the owner of a now-trendy “dad bod,” but seriously overweight (ask to see his old drivers’ license photo). Ever the problem solver, he lost 55 lbs through ‘the couponing diet’ and now he enjoys going to restaurants that serve chicken waffles and biscuits, and ordering the salad. Just to test his mental toughness.

Josh is a serial entrepreneur who builds the companies he needs most in the world. In 2014, He launched UpMyInfluence (previously upendPR) to help entrepreneurs like himself attract the perfect audiences and grow their brands without the crazy costs and contracts associated with traditional PR companies. Since then, UpMyInfluence (UMI) has evolved into a purpose-driven platform bent on totally DEMOCRATIZING access to influence. Josh wholeheartedly believes UMI has a moral imperative to help entrepreneurs own their expertise, share their wisdom, and serve the world with their collective messages. Oh, and to help our members grow revenue too!

UMI was the natural outgrowth of his first startup, SavingsAngel.com. Josh founded the consumer savings platform in 2007 to bring in what he most needed at the time (namely, more money). Armed with a background in information technology and Internet development, Josh’s technologic tinkering cut his family-of-five’s monthly grocery bill by half and created the most comprehensive coupon and sale-matching service available. SavingsAngel.com soon become a major operation employing up to 50 employees and grossing more than $6 million in sales with less than $500 in advertising spent.

When other entrepreneurs began knocking on his door desperate for the magic formula that would bring similar success, his new mission in life was born! Today, Josh is known as one of the foremost experts in online influence and authority. He’s personally worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs – working to turn them into media celebrities.

Never shy in front of an audience, Josh is a frequent speaker at business and startup conferences including Social Media Marketing World and a Tony Robbins event for his Business Mastery grads. He’s appeared as an electrifying podcast guest more than 100 times. He’s a weekly consumer expert on Fox 35 Orlando and News 13, writes a syndicated column for nine newspapers (with total readership above 1.1 million readers), and regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country. All told, Josh has appeared in the media more than 2000 times.

Passionate about his family, physical fitness (an avid fitness geek and 5K to marathon runner), and breaking out of Escape Rooms, Josh now lives in Orlando with his wife and three children.

The Michigan native’s exuberance and natural curiosity have fueled his life’s work as a journalist, technology specialist, entrepreneur and service-oriented family man. Josh served in the US Navy and earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in family science/therapy from Brigham Young University.

Josh also wants the public to know he thinks Daylight Savings Time is ridiculous. And umbrellas can poke your eye out!

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Advice to an 18-20-year old: read Atlas Shrugged https://amzn.to/3bmZMeR and understand how to succeed on your own merits!

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Recommended resource(s): Think and Grow Rich https://amzn.to/3chm8ji (read it) also, watch for the disclaimers!

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You can find Josh Elledge on…

Website: https://upmyinfluence.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshelledge

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upmyinfluence/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshelledge/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1DrPd_EkMk9dhDfbT6uIuA?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/upmyinfluence

Podcast: https://upmyinfluence.com/podcast/

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Sponsors: wrmastermind@gmail.com

Real Estate Investing Course: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/teachable-rei

Recommended books and tools: https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/kit/

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My name is David Pere, I am an active duty Marine, and have realized that service members and the working class use the phrase "I don't get paid enough" entirely too often. The reality is that most often our financial situation is self-inflicted. After having success with real estate investing, I started From Military to Millionaire to teach personal finance and real estate investing to service members and the working class. As a result, I have helped many of my readers increase their savings gap, and increase their chances of achieving financial freedom! - Click here to SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/2Q3EvfE to the channel for more awesome videos!

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