Author: Ray Blakney
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Podcast 148: Ray Blakney on Sword Fighting, Bootstrapping 7-Figure Businesses and Changing the Game with Podcast Hawk (The Maverick Show) A wide-ranging episode covering kendo and sword fighting, how I bootstrapped seven-figure businesses, and what we were building with Podcast Hawk to help…
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437: Bootstrapping Six and Seven Figure Businesses from Scratch (The Wantrepreneur Show) A conversation about bootstrapping, building six- and seven-figure businesses without outside funding, starting with Live Lingua and the companies that…
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Episode 28: Ray Blakney, CEO of Live Lingua (Making Conversations Count (Konpasu)) Wendy Harris and I talk about how Live Lingua grew during the 2020 lockdowns, organic SEO versus paid ads, avoiding burnout, being realistic about what…
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Learning Languages with Ray Blakney (Nomadtopia) For current and aspiring nomads, this one is about learning a new language as an adult living abroad. Drawing on my own experience as a serial expat and…
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How to adapt during a global crisis (Change Work Life) I explain how the 2009 swine flu outbreak forced us to move our language school business online, and what that experience suggests about adapting a…
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015: Start a Seven Figure Online Business. Get Bored. Start a New Business (The Entrepreneur Ride Along) Jake Lang and I go behind the scenes of building Live Lingua (twice): the move from a brick-and-mortar school to online, driving traffic with SEO, what…
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211: 4 Steps to Efficiently Create Content That Gets You Ranking at the Top in Google (Copy That Pops) A practical SEO conversation. I walk through my four-step process for content that ranks: research what your audience is actually searching for, create…
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Episode 126: Building businesses for the long-term (Entrepreneurs in Motion) The episode opens with a question: "What would you do if your business disappeared overnight?" That happened to me, and I talk about rebuilding from the…
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Ray Blakney on Travel, Living in Mexico & Live Lingua (The World Wanderers) A travel-focused conversation recorded from Querétaro, Mexico. We cover growing up living around the world, going to Mexico with the Peace Corps, starting…