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John Lee Dumas

Founder & Host, Entrepreneurs On Fire · 2 appearances on the record.

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John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of the business podcast Entrepreneurs On Fire. He is also the creator of Podcasters' Paradise and author of The Freedom Journal.

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5 assertions · 8 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how John argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Dumas marks episode 1,020 of his seven-day-a-week podcast
“I just launched today episode 1020, like showing that it can be done seven days a week as possible if you have the discipline and the strategy.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 15:47 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of John Lee Dumas on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything John Lee Dumas said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Dumas refused to build Podcaster's Paradise until securing paid pre-sales
“Because I didn't have a thing created for podcasters paradise, and I was not going to create or spend a minute of time creating any of the content within until I had proof of concept.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 5:51 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dumas: SMS opt-ins convert 3x higher than podcast web links
“I would say it's three X more will actually opt in via text than will go to the actual website.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 9:23 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
What-if
Dumas: I Would Have Refunded Buyers Without $5,000 in Pre-Orders
“I would have refunded and said, hey, there's a better idea out there, and I'm going to spend my time finding that.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 10:38 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Disclosure
Dumas utilized Kickstarter purely as a marketing platform with 20 reward levels
“We are actually utilizing Kickstarter as a marketing platform because we're going to be having 20 plus reward levels that when people get to the actual Kickstarter page, they're going to be able to say, okay, I want the hardcover, but we have all these other b…”
John Lee Dumas Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 10:54 Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire
Disclosure
Dumas: Podcaster's Paradise generated over $3M in revenue with 2,500 members
“To date, we've done over three million dollars in revenue just within Podcasters Paradise alone, our community, and we have over 2500 members who are incredibly active.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 4:09 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Disclosure
Dumas: Podcaster's Paradise increased price from $197 to $1,297 over time
“So we launched we pre-launched at actually one 97, 197 dollars. And then 45 days later, we actually did our real launch and At four 97. And then since then, about every quarter, Nathan, we've bumped the price up about a hundred dollars approximately, give or t…”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 5:10 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dumas: 35 people bought Podcaster's Paradise on initial pre-launch webinar
“So I had 35 people join on that webinar that I did for that pre-launch webinar.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 6:26 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dumas: Pre-launch webinar drew 600 signups from 4,000-person email list
“There's about 4000 people on the email list. We had about six hundred signups. We had, you know, just under a hundred people show up live.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 7:00 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dumas: Entrepreneur on Fire Generated 50 Sales at $497 on Launch Day
“We actually did an additional 50 sales that first day of opening the doors at four 97, because now it was real.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 11:06 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Disclosure
Dumas: Podcaster's Paradise is shifting from lifetime access to recurring subscriptions
“We are moving away from lifetime access to recurring and you know, that, that third day money back guarantee might not be there either.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 13:23 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Supported
Dumas marks episode 1,020 of his seven-day-a-week podcast
“I just launched today episode 1020, like showing that it can be done seven days a week as possible if you have the discipline and the strategy.”
John Lee Dumas Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 15:47 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Disclosure
Dumas ordered 20,000 Freedom Journals in bulk to lower unit costs
“So I purchased 20,000 Freedom Journals in bulk, and we were able to drive the price down significantly because of that.”
John Lee Dumas Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 10:36 Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire
Disclosure
Dumas pledged $25,000 to Pencils of Promise per Kickstarter funding milestone
“So we've actually partnered together Before this Kickstarter launch. And every time we hit a funding level, I'm writing a check to pencils of promise for 25,000 dollars to build a school in a developing country.”
John Lee Dumas Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 12:41 Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire
Disclosure
Dumas: Spent almost $200,000 on Freedom Journal production and distribution
“I've already dropped almost 200 K with the production, with the shipping, with the distribution right now.”
John Lee Dumas Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 15:28 Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire

The other half of the tape: John Lee Dumas's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 53 times in 27 episodes on Top Founders. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 52Keith Perhack 1

Statements about John Lee Dumas, by other people (2)

Assertion Supported
Latka: Entrepreneur on Fire generates over $250k in monthly revenue
“Entrepreneur on Fire generates over 250,000 dollars a month in revenue, and last month in June it did over 360,000, which we'll talk about in this episode.”
Nathan Latka Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 2:25 Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
Assertion Supported
Latka: John Lee Dumas generates over $300k monthly from EOFire
“JLD has produced over 1000 episodes of Entrepreneur on Fire and generates over 300 grand a month in revenue.”
Nathan Latka Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 1:40 Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire

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2019 44 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
2016 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur Mar 1, 2016 9m
Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Feb 1, 2016 12m
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