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Mike Drops Up-Close

Mike Drops Up-Close

By Michael Kalisperas

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close. We speak to entrepreneurs and thought leaders from all around the globe, Tune in and hit subscribe to stay informed with inspiring stories from our amazing guests. We get up close and personal, covering subjects from business, marketing and mindset Hosted by Michael Kalisperas a successful digital marketer and property investor. Connect with me https://book.effusivemarketing.com/ Linkedin > https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kalisperas/ Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/michaelvkalisperas/ Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/effusive_mike/
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A very special 'Mike Drops Up-Close' Episode. A poem by myself dedicated to my disabled son on his birthday today 18th May

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A very special 'Mike Drops Up-Close' Episode. A poem by myself dedicated to my disabled son on his birthday today 18th May
May 18, 202004:52
Mike Drops Up Close with Brad Lea

Mike Drops Up Close with Brad Lea

Brad has some interesting and effective techniques for achieving success. Let’s hear them out.

Oct 12, 201901:22:31
Mike Drops Up Close with Rob Moore

Mike Drops Up Close with Rob Moore

Rob explains the importance of personals morals and standards 

Oct 12, 201957:49
Mike Drops Up Close with Asa Leveaux

Mike Drops Up Close with Asa Leveaux

Asa leveaux has some interesting strategies for us to try out.

Sep 14, 201947:37
Mike Drops Up Close with Paul Taylor

Mike Drops Up Close with Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is an amazing entrepreneur and property developer who helps other people with their business.

Sep 14, 201938:46
Mike Drops Up Close with Phillip Gibbs

Mike Drops Up Close with Phillip Gibbs

Let hear what the legend Mr. Phillip Gibbs has to say

Sep 12, 201957:57
Mike Drops Up Close with Reggie

Mike Drops Up Close with Reggie

Reggie is an Investor, business coach, and an entrepreneur. So lets hear from him

Sep 12, 201956:02
Mike Drops Up Close with Tim David

Mike Drops Up Close with Tim David

Tim David is a communications experts who helps people with public speaking, write books, and become thought leaders.

Sep 12, 201901:00:29
Mike Drops Up Close with Nikki Tapley

Mike Drops Up Close with Nikki Tapley

If you want to learn how to empower your business and your family life, this video is perfect for you.

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close where we bring inspiration into the heart of those who are willing to listen, act, and risk to achieve success. 

Our guest for today is a very passionate woman and a lovely multiple-business owning mom of two.  She is here with us today to help busy, ambitious individuals to grow their business into the next level.

Stay tuned and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button, and the notification bell to remain informed and empowered!

Jul 03, 201954:32
Mike Drops Up Close with Jamie Keeling

Mike Drops Up Close with Jamie Keeling

Mike Drops Up Close Interview with Jamie Keeling. Jamie he is an Optimize Me specialist that's the company name so he helps optimize your companies as I put in the in the actual preview promotional material that put out there. He actually assist businesses or for 500k + turnover struggling with profitability performance and failing systems and you help go in optimize them. So we will talk about how you can help our listeners in their business how they can hire you who can get it done.

Jul 03, 201952:39
Mike Drops Up Close with Natalia Saldarriaga

Mike Drops Up Close with Natalia Saldarriaga

Welcome to Mike Drop Up-Close!

What do you think is the #1 keystone to success? Discover the truth by watching this one-on-one interview with our guest for today, Natalia Saldarriaga. 

Please help me welcome this beautiful and amazing entrepreneur as we touch base with her and where she began and started her amazing business.

Stay tuned and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button, and the notification bell to remain informed and empowered!

Jul 03, 201945:51
Mike Drops Up Close with Jay Dhillon

Mike Drops Up Close with Jay Dhillon

If you want to find great opportunities in business, you surely don’t want to miss this video!

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close.  

For today’s interview, we’re having Jay Dhillon to share with us his humble beginnings, ups and downs in the business industry, and his amazing success story.

For those who don’t know yet, Jay is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and an expert investor from U.K. who has a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success and now helping others to flourish in their fields.

Tune in and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell to stay informed and empowered.

Jul 03, 201959:10
Mike Drops Up Close with Niel Patel

Mike Drops Up Close with Niel Patel

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close!!! 

Wanna know the secret to success? Watch this one-one interview with Neil Patel, the world’s leading online marketer, co founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and KISSmetrics, an expert who helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP, and Viacom expand their revenue.

He’ll be sharing with us his entrepreneurial Journey and some helpful hacks on growing one’s business. 

Stay tuned and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button and the notification bell to remain informed and empowered!

Jul 03, 201926:37
Mike Drops Up Close with Brad Burton

Mike Drops Up Close with Brad Burton

Discover how to become your own boss, build your business empire, and transform into a living legend in the business world.

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close - the meeting ground of some of the most prominent entrepreneurs throughout the world who love to stay and reveal their inspirational stories & unforgettable experiences in the business industry.

For today, you’ll witness a one-on-one interview with Brad Burton who is an English businessman, motivational speaker, founder of ‘4Networking’, and an award-winning author all in one. 

Stay tuned as we touch base with him and ask him where he began and started his amazing journey.  Also, don’t forget to hit subscribe and the notification bell to remain informed and empowered!

Jul 03, 201948:01
Mike Drops Up Close with Carl Pate

Mike Drops Up Close with Carl Pate

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close, the home of good talk and incredible interviews wherein stunning entrepreneurs from all around the world share their amazing journey and compelling stories in the business industry.

Good news; Carl pate, the author of an award-winning book “Making S#!T Happen: The 5 pillars of Awesome” will be joining our table for today. 

He is also a leading productivity expert, and a very skillful consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience in financial control and business management.

Are you ready to hear how a courageous businessman started, struggled, survived, and triumphed from shifting one career to another, just to win over the challenges of entrepreneurship?

Well, if YES, then tune in and don’t forget to hit subscribe, and ring the notification bell to stay informed and empowered.

Jul 03, 201901:19:33
Mike Drops Up Close with Stasja Petrova

Mike Drops Up Close with Stasja Petrova

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close, everybody! -- where we, once again, invite awesome folks like you to witness our one-on-one interview with different outstanding entrepreneurs from across the world. 

Today’s Episode; I present to you the very gorgeous and brilliant-minded entrepreneur, Stasja Petrova. She is an email marketing genius who formulate just the best and most excellent email strategies that will surely skyrocket anyone’s business.

Let us get to know this amazing woman, her expertise, and her takeaways on GDPR, email systems, approach with "spammy" words, and her game plan with delivering great content & attractive communication.

Tune in and don’t forget to hit subscribe and ring the notification bell to stay informed and empowered.

Jul 03, 201958:28
Mike Drops Up Close with Fredrick Sandvall

Mike Drops Up Close with Fredrick Sandvall

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close where we speak to some of the most remarkable entrepreneurs from across the globe, bringing you inspirational people, touching lives with their amazing stories, and hoping to ignite the business soul in you. 

Today’s guest; We’re having Fredrick Sandvall,  a fantastic serial entrepreneur and a widely-known property and lending expert whose purpose in life is to help people achieve their property financial freedom.

He will be sharing with us today some of his life updates, experiences, stunning advice on investing, and most especially his motivation for the youth.

Tune in and don’t forget to hit subscribe and ring the notification bell to stay informed and empowered.

Also Fredrick has a fantastic new book Trust Is The New Currency with Sheila Holt > . Check it out here


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-New-Currency-partners-investments/dp/1781333629/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&fbclid=IwAR2QFR0J-lh_SUxMVDD0AFvH-5F8NUk87dchHIIHPctI4PVak2f8ee7U7VQ

Jul 03, 201959:38
Mike Drops Up Close with Nick James

Mike Drops Up Close with Nick James

Be inspired, learn to expand your business, and attract your dream client with this next interview.

Welcome to Mike Drops Up-Close! 

This time, we are going to have an incredible entrepreneur named Nick James who have been dramatically changing the business he’s worked with, and helping people write killer copy & double their wealth worth. 

We're going to touch base with him and ask him where he began and started his amazing journey, how did he outrank the competition, and become an asset in the business industry.

Tune in and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell to stay informed and empowered.

Jul 03, 201951:16
Mike Drops Up Close interview with Queen of SA Kamila Wszolek. Episode #0010

Mike Drops Up Close interview with Queen of SA Kamila Wszolek. Episode #0010

 How Kamila Wszolek become the queen of Serviced Accommodation (SA) Girl. 


 Kamila Wszolek is the Queen of Serviced Accommodation (SAgirl). She is also a property investor with experience in buy to lets, flips, deal packaging but currently specializing in Serviced Accommodation. She's also an entrepreneur, business owner, and former midwife. In this episode Kamila speaks of how she entered the Service Accomodation sector nd how it JD helps here become financially free to help support her family.  Kamila is a great friend and truly incredible and inspiring lady. 

Apr 30, 201901:02:38
Mike Drops Up Close interview with the legend Brad Burton. Episode #009

Mike Drops Up Close interview with the legend Brad Burton. Episode #009

 Brad Burton the legend behind the fastest growing business network. Raw honest and passionate


 Brad Burton is an English entrepreneur and noted as one of the UK'S #1 motivational business speakers. He also founded the international business networking group 4Networking and the author of four of the highest-rated and 5 reviewed business books on Amazon. Mentor to sole-traders, small businesses, and large corporates. Coach and mentor in his extremely successful NOW WHAT group Brad describes his journey and how he grew his network so fast in such a short space of time. 

Apr 30, 201947:49
Mike drops Up-Close interview with Mark Wade. Episode #008

Mike drops Up-Close interview with Mark Wade. Episode #008

 Learn the benefits of having a Virtual Summit Software to your business 


 Mark Wade is the CEO of Virtual Summits Software. He started in the Healthcare field with two doctorates (Clinical & Academic Doctorates) and a Brick & Mortar Business. He helped Entrepreneurs scale their businesses by becoming an influencer and build an engaged audience with a simple strategy. 

Apr 30, 201934:20
Mike drops Up-Close interview with Ian Stanley. Episode #007

Mike drops Up-Close interview with Ian Stanley. Episode #007

How to become a highest copywriter and conversion expert online


Ian Stanley is one of the highest paid copywriter and conversion experts online. He gets paid pretty substantial sums of money to go into people businesses and beat their current sales funnels. He started writing books when he was in college. He also made videos that he was the star like  Lie Topez, Very G, Cant Gardone, or Richard Thanyu. 

Apr 30, 201901:10:52
Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Desislava Dobreva. Episode #006

Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Desislava Dobreva. Episode #006

How She Become The Branding Queen


Desislava Dobreva is an award-winning Brand Strategies, TEDx speaker and social media influencer with an audience over a thousand people. She helps businesses build and scale brands that are powerful, profitable and popular with her unique methodologies and techniques. She has worked with both global brands and small businesses from service-based entrepreneurs and e-commerce shops to restaurants and tech startups.  In this episode, we touch on her humble beginnings and struggles she has faced on her brilliant growth as one of the world's leading Branding experts. Coined by myself as the Branding Queen a name that has stuck till this day and a title very well deserved. 

Apr 04, 201901:01:13
Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Erick Salgado. Episode #005

Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Erick Salgado. Episode #005

SEO King to Software Entrepreneur


Erick Salgado is known as one of the brightest digital entrepreneurs. He's also the CEO & Founder at Builderall. The BuilderAll platform project started in 2011 with one goal in mind is to generate real online results for companies all over the world, through a complete and comprehensive platform. In this episode, Erick speaks about his journey and that of his company. We touch on how he first started in business and his success as an SEO master to finally creating one of the most disruptive all in one software tools for business ever to hit the market. 

Apr 04, 201901:32:28
Mike Drops Up-Close Interview with Entrepreneur Daven Michaels. Episode #004

Mike Drops Up-Close Interview with Entrepreneur Daven Michaels. Episode #004

Brilliant History


Daven Michaels started his 1st career as an entrepreneur at the age of 15, a company that designed clothing. Daven has an overseas outsourcing firm that is based in the Philippines that offer virtual assistants called 123Employee. He also is the best selling author with books; Outsource Smart: Be Your Own Boss ... Without Letting Your Business Become the Boss of You, received critical acclaim and made the New York Times best-seller list. He is a great guy and someone I can call a friend.  In this episode, we touch on how he has grown his business.  In true Daven style, he congratulates his amazing team and credits them with all of his success.  I think it is fair to say he is extremely humble. 

Apr 04, 201942:20
Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Jon Vaughn. Episode #003

Mike Drops Up-Close interview with Jon Vaughn. Episode #003

Disruptive Software Tools To Build Your Business


Jon Vaughn is known for the software developer. He's the founder and CEO of Software Development firm Tier5.  His company developed different purpose tools that can be used by many types of businesseshe's very talented individual who understands almost every programming language and major development concepts and that's why he loves solving problems. In this episode we talk of a common love and pastime. The software he has created and a little about the future trajectory and plans he has for his company. 

Apr 04, 201901:39:46
EP:#002 Guest Simone Vincenzi 'The Expert Strategist' joins me on Mike Drops Up-Close

EP:#002 Guest Simone Vincenzi 'The Expert Strategist' joins me on Mike Drops Up-Close

How To Build Yourself And Maintain It


Simone Vincenzi, known as The Experts Strategies, co-founder of GTeX, Forbes and Huffington Post contributor, TEDx speaker and host of the podcast. He speaks in front of thousands of business leaders and organized over hundreds of event, including Gary Vee speaking from York Hall. Lastly, he also partners with the largest youth organization in the UK. Simone is a great friend who I have watched from strength to strength. He is extremely passionate helping people. In this episode we discuss the growth of gtex his company, His journey from being totally broke to his current success.  

Apr 04, 201949:43
EP:#001 Introducing Mike Drops Up-Close the concept behind the launch with creator Michael Kalisperas

EP:#001 Introducing Mike Drops Up-Close the concept behind the launch with creator Michael Kalisperas

Many of you will have heard of the term ‘Mic Drop’ if not there is a dictionary explanation at the bottom of this description in quotation marks.

An Introduction to Mike Drops Up-Close:

This podcast is to aspire to inspire those interested in personal development with episodes focusing on subjects I am passionate about,  these ranging from business, marketing and mindset. In the podcast we talk of the journey it takes for success and get Up-Close with thought leaders and entrepreneurs from around the globe. This podcast focuses on individuals who have created or are creating asset-based incomes within the physical and digital worlds. Stay tuned for some amazing guests and stories. I aim to cut the BS and uncover the realities of what it takes to be a leader and entrepreneur in the modern age. Be ready for ‘Mic Drop’ moments and insights where our guests share golden nuggets and insights on the path they have taken to get to where they are now. I am Michael Kalisperas a digital marketer and successful property investors and international best selling author. Stay tuned for more episodes to come.

Thank you Michael Kalisperas

a mic drop- “....an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one's microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive. “ 

Mar 23, 201909:19