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What is included in the Master VIP Bundle:

  • Six Amazing courses that will take you from the absolute beginning of your journey to your expansion into ownership of multiple businesses
  • Proprietary "one of a kind" training and support materials
  • Downloadable transcripts of each lesson/chapter
  • Ability to connect directly with Dave and the Health & Wealth Academy
  • Bonus training videos

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Gain the knowledge and wisdom of 20+ years in my comprehensive collection of courses that make up the VIP Master Bundle

This is a unique program that is presented from a guide that has been through the trenches and will take you through each painstaking detail to ensure that you will have everything you need to be successful. This is the comprehensive collection of all “DaveTheNurse” courses that will be made available through the Health & Wealth Academy. These courses will help guide you through every facet of your journey. Read below on what topics we will cover in this master course

  • How To Get Off The Ground- Starting Your Own Business Inthis course will prepare you for the journey of taking your business idea from just that an “idea” to a point of realization. Everyone needs to start somewhere and in this case we are going to give you a swift kick in the butt and begin removing the training wheels early

  • Planning & Preparing For Success In The Nurse Staffing Industry In this course will bridge the gap between the kicking off of your business and building on the marketing and planning concepts. I will be sharing with you concepts that if followed closely could launch your business in the right direction from the start. We will be discussing Marketing, Business Planning, Financing, and Contracting and dive into why they are important when planning to start your planning

  • Successfully Launching & Handling Early Challenges This course is to bring you into the next phase of the game, which is to start getting out and meeting with potential clients. Once you have started your marketing push it is the moment where the rubber meets the road and you need to do start making sales calls. The Sales Call is where the ideas and dreams become a reality.

  • Hiring Employees & Contract Nurses In this course I am going to give you a step by step on how to find the right people, interview potential employees, quickly and efficiently get them onboard while handling all of the details that come along with this process like finding the right people, how much to pay, and what it truly costs to employ

  • Orientation & Onboarding of Employees Here we go……on to the next step towards getting our team up and running we will go into detail on orienting our new employees. This course is a step by step of the orientation process. We will define the purpose and importance of the orientation, explain the final steps needed before starting, an overview of the orientation, and how to tackle the availability of staff

  • Growing Pains- Nursing your nurses This course is all about when you have done everything you thought you needed to do to get your business up and running and then the reality hits that now you have to run your business. It's making your business run for you and setting the processes up when you are small so you can grow to be big

  • Bonus Courses - I have so much material I want to share with you that you I have added these videos as bonus materials for you to enjoy. I want to give you every tool possible to make you successful, so if I have something that I can share, I will!

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Introduction

    • Welcome to the VIP Master Bundle- Course Introduction & Overview
  • 2

    Section #1- How to get off of the ground- Starting a business

    • Section #1- Introduction & Overview

    • Chapter #1- Introduction

    • Is Entrepreneurialism for you?

    • The importance of a routine as a new entrepreneur

    • Chapter #1 Review & Summary

    • Chapter #2- Introduction

    • How do I check if my company is available on Legal Zoom

    • How I selected a business name that represents the vision

    • How I selected a company name and researched if available in my state

    • Using GoDaddy to see if your website name is available

    • How do I check if my brand is on social media

    • How to trademark your brand using Legal Zoom

    • How we built out the social platform for DTN and HAWA

    • Setting up your social platform and media kit

    • Chapter #2- Closing & Summary

    • Chapter #3- Introduction

    • What did it cost to set up an LLC and where did I go

    • How to set up an LLC using INCfile

    • How long did it take to get your business articles after set up

    • Chapter #3- Closing & Summary

    • Chapter #4 Introduction

    • What contracts do I need for my business and where do I find them?

    • What Insurance do I need to begin a business and where to find them?

    • Did you create your own documents or did you purchase them?

    • Where to find policies and procedures online?

    • Chapter #4- Closing statement & Summary

    • Chapter #5- Introduction

    • What do you need to open a bank account?

    • Which bank do I choose and why

    • How important is it to have a bookkeeper

    • How much money would you start your business with?

    • Suggestions when opening business bank accounts and business credit cards

    • Chapter #5 Closing Statement & Summary

    • Chapter #6 Introduction

    • Set up your first office space for the least amount of money

    • Where to set up your first office

    • Chapter #6- Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #7- How to design a brand and logo

    • How did we choose our logo?

    • How we pivoted our brand

    • Capturing the 3 personas of Dave the Nurse

    • Chapter #7 Closing Summary & Review
  • 3

    Section #2- Planning & Preparing for Success

    • Section #2 Introduction & Overview

    • Chapter #1 Introduction

    • Collateral & Rubber Balls

    • Chapter #1 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #2 Introduction

    • Do I need a business plan?

    • Chapter #2 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #3 Introduction

    • Where do I get the money to fund?

    • Section #3 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #4- Introduction

    • What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

    • Chapter #4 Closing Summary & Review

    • Section #2 Closing Summary & Review
  • 4

    Section # 3 Introducing your business to the world

    • Section #3 Introduction & Overview

    • Chapter #1- Introduction

    • Introducing your business to the world

    • Chapter #1- Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #2- Introduction

    • Meeting the decision maker

    • Chapter #2- Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #3- Introduction

    • How do you come up with a rate for your services?

    • When do I bill for my services?

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #4- Introduction

    • What are your next moves?

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Section #3- Closing Summary & Review
  • 5

    Section #4- It's all about the Peeps- Part 1

    • Section #1- Introduction & Overview

    • Chapter #1- Introduction

    • Where do we find people

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #2- Introduction

    • How do I get my foot in the door

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #3- Introduction

    • The application for employment

    • Where do I find applications for employment online

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #4 Introduction

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #5 Introduction

    • The Interview

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #6 Introduction

    • Sample questions to interview a new employee

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #7 Introduction

    • What do I pay a new employee

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #8 Introduction

    • Background Checks and Urine Drug Screens

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #9 Introduction

    • What it cost to hire a new employee

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Section #4 Closing Summary & Review
  • 6

    Section #5 It's all about the Peeps-Part 2 Orientation & Onboarding

    • Chapter #1 Introduction

    • Orientation

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #2 Introduction

    • What is all of this going to cost

    • .L What is all of this going to cost

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #3 Introduction

    • How bad can it get

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #4 Introduction

    • Hand deliver your new employee to a facility

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #5 Introduction

    • Let that birdie fly

    • Closing Summary & Review

    • Section #5 Closing Summary & Review
  • 7

    Section #6- Growing Pains

    • Section #6 Introduction & Overview

    • Chapter #1 Introduction

    • My only clinician got DNR'ed

    • Chapter #1 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #2 Introduction

    • Starvin Marvin

    • Chapter 2 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #3 Introduction

    • Pivoting on Margins II

    • Chapter #3 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #4 Introduction

    • Should I consider Payroll Factoring

    • Chapter 4 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #5 Introduction

    • Factoring for success

    • Factoring by dummies

    • Chapter #5 Closing Summary & Review

    • Chapter #6 Introduction

    • Prebooking for success

    • Chapter 6 Closing Summary & Review

Instructor(s)

Instructor

Dave Soltau

Dave Soltau, RN, BSN, is a Registered Nurse with over 24 years of clinical experience. As a serial entrepreneur, Dave has also co-founded two successful healthcare companies, Advanced Clinical Associates, and the ACA Wellness Institute, generating over $35 million in sales. Dave is also a self-published author, and a public speaker spreading the word of his experiences throughout the community.