Rick is a Personal Manager, Marketing Consultant and Public Speaker living in Nashville Tennessee.

He’s the former manager of Superstar Taylor Swift and recently launched his online Membership Program The Music Industry Blueprint and is now helping people all over the world Navigate The Music Business. He has taken a traditional offline business and has taken it online!

After a 15 year career in radio, he moved over to the Record Company side in 2004.

Today Rick manages The Music Industry Blueprint where he evaluates what you have, and teaches artist how to take what they have and grow it into a business. Rick’s experience helps them navigates the hard, uncaring music business. He believes it’s hard enough that you shouldn’t have to make it any harder.

Rick wants to provide the strategies it takes to help make the road a bit smoother. Rick recognizes he got to where he is today with hard work and but also specific strategies learned from great mentors. He is dedicated to pass along that knowledge and specific strategies to the next group of people who want to have a career in one of the most rewarding and fascinating businesses in The World, The Music Business.

We are excited to welcome Rick to the Social Media Business Hour!

Do you or have you ever felt a bit overwhelmed with everything it takes to be successful?

Our guest today has felt the same way, but she has learned how to conquer overwhelm and replace it with a proven system for instant clarity, power and freedom.

So would you like to hear what she learned that helped her climb that mountain?

In our power-packed show today, Melanie Benson Strick, America’s Leading Authority on Optimum Performance, will help you:

1.  Know the ONE question you have to ask to be among the top 3% (hint: it will save you time, money and your sanity!)
2. Leverage a powerful technique to breeze through problems, roadblocks and delays
3. Prioritize your actions to double (even triple) your revenue in the next 90 days.
4. Create a step-by-step process to move from ideas to income -- guaranteed!
5. Learn a simple strategy every millionaire knows to power up your motivation and banish procrastination -- forever.

Adam is the Founder, Help My Website Sell™ a company is dedicated to helping companies, organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures Emancipate The POWER Of INFORMATION through mastering:

-  Effective, easy-to-implement website conversion strategies and techniques that work;

-  Simplified internet marketing technologies that support the business’ website and sales conversion and customer experience goals;

-  Spending less time editing and maintaining their websites, and more time promoting and monetizing them.

Having worked with numerous companies and ventures of different sizes, markets, and niches, Adam offers a unique blend of website conversions know-how combined with a mix of live coaching and consulting.

Social Media Business Hour presented by Nile Nickel.  

Join us each week for the latest in Social Media and Business.  

These terrific, thought inspiring shows include "News Of The Weird" segments where you'll get the strangest stories from around the world.  Impress your friends and family with hilarious and often surprising news stories that the major news networks don't cover. 

In addition, get some great tips for how to attract and keep your perfect customers using Social Media.  On top of the laughs that you'll share, Nile will deliver you golden business lessons from truly great entrepreneurs.  

These incredible men and women have been where you are and have struggled through the challenges you face every day.  Take this opportunity to invest in your business, your education and enjoy it along the way!

Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conventions and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.

Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers.

It shot to #6 on The Wall Street Journal’s Business Best Sellers list just three weeks after its release and reached #9 on BusinessWeek’s. Since its release it has consistently stayed in the top 25 on 800ceoread’s Business Book Best Seller List. Its been translated into 21 languages. It is his fourth book to sell over 250,000 copies.

He believes his new book, Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion is by far his most important work yet.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption and Clinic in Jupiter, Florida.

Charlie is a speaker, author, and founder of the Business & Entrepreneur Network, Charlie McDermott helps small business owners clear the path to building valuable, scalable and… saleable businesses via automation and the creation of direct response marketing assets.

Charlie started his first business as a college student at West Chester University located in Pennsylvania, and grew it into an 8-figure health club empire. Twenty-two years later he sold that business to focus his marketing expertise on Hollywood where he used over twenty different forms of media to breakthrough the clutter and land his son acting roles in feature films and television shows including, The Office, Private Practice, Medium, and a full-time gig as Axl Heck on the hit ABC comedy, “The Middle”.

Today, Charlie works with hundreds of entrepreneurs every month online from as far away as Australia and via live events held in the Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE areas.

Michael is the Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences and organizations nationwide.

His current mission is to support and educate Solopreneurs, including those in Internet Marketing, Network Marketing, Real Estate, Athletics and more.

As a bonus, he’d like to change the face of the network marketing industry by teaching associates the correct way to build relationships with social media.

Dave discovered he was an entrepreneur at the ripe age of 6 years old before he knew what the word meant. He and his very first business partner/sister started his first business together, it was a lemonade stand.

Their customers ranged from thirsty farmers to total strangers. It was also there that Dave learned about adding value to existing clients, so he and his Sister started baking cookies to go along with the lemonade.

While in the 7th grade he and his cousin started “Best Team Auction Co” where during recess they would auction off any items their classmates would bring to sell and in August of 2012, he fulfilled a lifelong DREAM of his! He became a licensed auctioneer. He later went on and tried his skills at raising pigs and cows it was through this experience he discovered he was not a farmer.

Today he owns four businesses all of which are debt free and profitable, he is a pilot, diver and an inventor, and has been the guest speaker of several organization and has been featured on air as well as local print media.

Dave owns Empowering Small Business and has helped small businesses owners across the country by Empowering their Dreams of truly owning their business instead of being OWNED by the business.

Dave has been coached and continues to learn from some of the worlds best small business coaches, Howard Partridge, Mark Ehrlich,   “Inner Circle Member” and belongs to Team Phenomenal , and is a huge fan of Zig Ziglar

He guarantees that your business will change if you implement just some of the great information and tips you will receive if you attend our events, or your money back!

Dave is married to his lovely wife Toni and they both personally invite you to Empoweing Small Business events and workshops. We look forward to meeting you!

Get all your Social Media Marketing Strategies and Tactics each week from Nile Nickel in the “Social Media Business Hour”.  Check out expert tips as you learn about how to grow your business by attracting and keeping the perfect customers.  You’ll always get valuable internet marketing lessons AND really incredible business strategies.

Don’t miss the “weird news” segment of each show, as Nile delivers fun facts about what’s going on in the world, covering hilarious news stories that will leave you laughing. 

Social Media Business Hour presented by Nile Nickel.  

Join us each week for the latest in Social Media and Business.  

These terrific, thought inspiring shows include "News Of The Weird" segments where you'll get the strangest stories from around the world.  Impress your friends and family with hilarious and often surprising news stories that the major news networks don't cover. 

In addition, get some great tips for how to attract and keep your perfect customers using Social Media.  On top of the laughs that you'll share, Nile will deliver you golden business lessons from truly great entrepreneurs.  

These incredible men and women have been where you are and have struggled through the challenges you face every day.  Take this opportunity to invest in your business, your education and enjoy it along the way!

Join us each week for the latest in Social Media and Business. 

These terrific, thought inspiring shows include "News Of The Weird" segments where you'll get the strangest stories from around the world. 

Impress your friends and family with hilarious and often surprising news stories that the major news networks don't cover. In addition, get some great tips for how to attract and keep your perfect customers using Social Media. 

On top of the laughs that you'll share, Nile will regularly deliver you golden business lessons from truly great entrepreneurs. These incredible men and women been where you are and have struggled through the challenges you face every day.  Take this opportunity to invest in your business and enjoy it along the way!