Grow A Small Business Podcast 20+ years of experience working in Corporate America as a commission sales guy, now running a whole new networking company, growing from $67k to $800k in revenue with over 20 FTEs. (Donnie Boivin)
In this episode, I interview Donnie Boivin, the Founder, and CEO of Success Champions based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America. Donnie has set up a company to provide training and education in building the business toward success.
From working as a straight-commission sales guy, Donnie has decided to run his own networking business to improve his expertise in the field of sales. Success Champions was established in 2017 and has been running for over 5 years. Growing from $67,000 to $800,000 in the present revenues.
Donnie mentioned something about being an expert sales guy first before you can build a business of your own. So he said, "Go learn sales, figure out sales and learn how to do the sales side of things you'll eventually be able to bring on somebody who's going to outperform you. But you can't build a business if you can't sell."
This Cast Covers:
- Provide a ton of training and an avenue for the entrepreneurs to network.
- Became number 22 in the world of podcasting.
- Growing into 800 thousand dollars in revenue.
- Had to postpone the Badass Business Summit due to COVID.
- Became a catalyst when he shows up his true self which allowed the clients and people to do the same.
- Run a full working farm on top of his business.
- He's been given feedback over the years on the podcast about his swearing.
- Almost lost their family's farm in his early year in business.
- Diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45.
- Learning how to manage priorities.
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Quotes:
"You can pretty much be anywhere you want to be and still run your business." —Donnie Boivin
"Success is watching others succeed." —Donnie Boivin
"The best way to truly meet yourself is to build a business." —Donnie Boivin
"If you can't sell, you're never going to create a successful sales team because you can't teach them how to be successful." —Donnie Boivin
"Your first few hires, don't hire for an entire thing, hire for one particular task you need to be done, and hire specifically for that. " —Donnie Boivin
Music from https://filmmusic.io "Cold Funk" by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com. License: CC by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0