Tom Church and the crew at Latest Deals are excellent deal hunters! I always message these guys before I make any significant purchase.
Tom Church (@tomchurch) kindly joins me for a round 2! Listen to Part 1 here. Tom is one of the most interesting polymaths I know. Check out some of the notches on Tom’s belt so far:
- Co-founder, Latest Deals (63,000 registered and active members, 62,000 Facebook Fans, 250,000 unique users per month, 50,000 daily newsletter subscribers, 200+ pieces of national press coverage, nominated Best Startup 2017 in TechSpark Awards)
- Author of #1 Amazon best seller Money’s Big Secret
- Published #1 Amazon best seller How To Live For Free
- Co-founded creative design group FullScream UK
- Worked as a bespoke suit tailor with Mullen & Mullen
- Is known in the media as Britain’s Sexiest Man
- Published 101 Quotes from Great British Women
- Founder, TomChurch.co.uk (blog)
- Had a short but intense career in PR that proved very valuable later on
- Founded London Startups, a networking organisation that grew to become one of London’s biggest (2,400+ members)
- Launched a couple of successful Kickstarter campaigns (£150,000+ funding raised)
I’m scratching the surface and he’s only 26. Tom is a mega productive dude. One of his most hilarious projects is when he hacked Google to become the Sexiest Man in Britain, which went viral across mainstream media. Soon after, Tom was bombarded with business opportunities. Where most would leap at the offer, Tom politely declined saying that it was “just a bit of fun…”
In the past year, Tom has been working hard alongside his co-founders to grow LatestDeals.co.uk. Latest Deals is one of the UK’s largest deal hunting communities. People share the hottest deals, voucher codes, coupons, freebies and competitions with each other. What makes Latest Deals different is that members get points and Amazon vouchers in return for their help. You get rewards for your contributions.
The Latest Deals team are a force to be reckoned with. It is remarkable what they have achieved in such a short space of time (see stats above). Want a great deal? Watch the video below, where Tom demonstrates how flying by plane is twice as cheap as a UK train ticket:
In this episode, we cover:
- How Latest Deals came in to being
- How to grow a start-up effectively with zero budget
- How Facebook Groups can transform your business
- Goal setting and how to work effectively towards goals
- How to find amazing deals
- How to use checklists for optimal productivity
- And much more
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Show Notes
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- What does Tom do? [06:40]
- What is Latest Deals? [09:10]
- What has been the most successful tactic in growing the Latest Deals audience [10:33]
- The Latest Deals marketing plan [13:20]
- How to leverage Facebook groups to grow your business [16:12]
- How Latest Deals take advantage of their competition [23:15]
- Latest Deal’s biggest learning curves [29:20]
- Who or what has inspired Tom the most? [34:20]
- What inspired Tom and the team start Latest Deals? [38:05]
- The best deal Tom has ever found [40:25]
- What drives Tom and the team to build and grow Latest Deals and serve others? [42:18]
- How to save and spend effectively [44:38]
- The 3-30 Money Diet [49:55]
- Tom’s thoughts on building a The 4-Hour Work Week Muse Cashflow Business [52:30]
- Latest Deal’s progress against their goals [58:43]
- Investing strategies (Index Funds) [1:06:20]
- The value on making decisions regardless of the outcome [1:11:30]
- The benefits of Acro Yoga and trying new things [1:14:35]
- The benefits of HIT [1:23:50]
- The first 90-minutes of Tom’s day [1:35:50]
- How to use Checklists to increase productivity [1:37:15]
- How to automate dating [1:44:35]
- The most amazing productivity app [1:46:20]
- The benefits of batching repetitive tasks [1:49:35]
- The best way to figure out how to be more productive at everyday tasks [1:52:45]
- Tom’s rituals [1:53:40]
- Tom’s favourite software for improving productivity [1:55:45]
- How to change your name to God [1:59:00]
- The books Tom has re-read the most [2:00:30]
- In the last 5-years when has Tom felt the most successful? [2:07:25]
- What change in life or behavioural modification is Tom most proud of in the last year/recent memory, and which habits is he trying to change? [2:08:31]
- Why eating fewer meals may be better for health and longevity [2:10:00]
- Quality of life vs length of life [2:12:50]
- What has Tom changed his mind about in business? [2:17:10]
- Best way to contact Tom [2:21:30]
Selected Links from the Episode
- Latest Deals
- Slick Deals
- HIT
- UK Money Bloggers Private Group
- Body By Science by Dr Doug McGuff and John R. Little (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Body By Science Facebook Group
- Zero-Carb Diet
- Latest Deals and Free Stuff Group
- No B.S. Health, Fitness, and Nutrition (from Corporate Warrior)
- Hot UK Deals
- HotUKDeals tax avoidance
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries and Jack Trout (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Nike
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- 1,000 True Fans
- Mullen & Mullen
- Latest Free Stuff
- Marks and Spencer
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- The 3-30 Money Diet – Save Money Now
- Approved Food
- Money’s Big Secret: The strategies they didn’t teach you to slash debt, save more and invest safely with time by Tom Church (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Nutmeg
- Fidelity
- Hargreaves Lansdown
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- A simple mind hack that helps beat procrastination
- How martial arts can help you increase creativity
- Calisthenics
- The Big-5 Exercise Protocol
- Bod Pod
- How to double your strength in 30 days: My High Intensity Strength Training experiment
- The Real Truth About Maximizing Muscle Gain
- Body By Science Contributor, Ryan Hall – How To Train Specifically For Your Genetics And How Genetic Traits Determine Exercise Results
- Ryan Hall Part 2 – How to Tailor a HIT Workout and Repetition Cadence, The Importance of the Negative Component of an Exercise and Evidence-Based Fat Loss Tactics
- Dr Ted Naiman: The Most Effective Diet for Fat Loss, Daily Workouts to Failure and The Problems with Supplements
- Ted Naiman Muscle-Ups
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- How Checklists Outperform To-Do Lists (PLUS: Downloadable Template)
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Decision Fatigue
- Tinder
- Hazel (automated organisation for your Mac)
- Auphonic
- Workflow (app in IOS)
- ZipJet
- Evernote
- 5-Minute Journal
- What My Morning Journal Looks Like (Morning Pages)
- Buffer
- Remember The Milk
- The Art Of War by Sun Tzu (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- If this is a man: Remembering Auschwitz by Primo Levi (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Part 2: How A 50-Year-Old Is Using A Zero-Carb Diet To Break Two World Records On The Same Day
People Mentioned
- Anthony DiCelementi
- Tom Kelsey
- Deepak Tailor
- Noah Kagan
- Shawn Baker MD (Listen to our podcasts here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Tim Ferriss
- Phil Knight
- Kevin Kelly
- Robb Wolf (Listen to our podcast here)
- James Steele PhD (Listen to our podcasts here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
- Ryan Hall (Listen to our podcasts here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Ted Naiman (Listen to our podcast here)
- David Allen (Listen to our podcast here)
- Maria Sharapova
- Art De Vany
QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: how do you find great deals? Please let me know in the comments.
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Thank you very much for hosting this podcast Lawrence. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as always. Your podcasts are always a blast and I’d recommend any reading or listening to subscribe.