Travis Makes Money 542: Sean Castrina | How to Start a Simple Service Business
Sean Castrina is an active business owner and serial entrepreneur. He started my first company at the age of 23 and has never stopped since! After starting more than 15 successful companies he began to teach entrepreneurship as an authority. With his book, 8 Unbreakable Rules for Start-Up Success and podcast The 10 Minute Entrepreneur, his mission is to equip current and future entrepreneurs for success.
Let’s dive straight into the episode and learn how you can find success by doing something as simple as starting a service business.
Things you will learn in this episode:
[00:01 - 04:21] Opening Segment
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- I introduce today’s guest Sean Castrina
- Author and entrepreneur
- Sean give some background into his life
- Grew up in Virginia with a hard work ethic
- Athletic through school
- ‘Average but energetic’
- Working at the things you’re good at
[04:22 - 18:52] Massive Success in Simple Service Companies
- How to know what to focus on developing
- The things that came easy to us
- What do people say that you’re good at
- Our skill sets are limited - find what you’re a 7 or 10 at
- Sean shares his life from college forward
- Got a degree, job, then married
- You never have job security
- Never wanting to be dependent on others for a career
- Sean’s venture into business
- Starting with service companies
- Copy and pasting the working model
- Where to put your resources/capital
- Solve a problem, fill a need, satisfy a desire, build a following
- Looking for the areas people aren’t in yet
- Example from Sean
- Selling a successful blueprint
- Making something faster and better
- There are countless needs to be met
- Never started something over $10,000
- Using your superpower and partnering with others
- Examples of needs that can be serviced
- A word from our sponsor
[18:53 - 30:56] Closing Segment
- Who you know or what you know?
- What you know helps you not be dependent on others
- Who you know gets you further and faster
- How connections affected Sean
- The first book would never have happened
- How Sean connects with quality people
- Praying for people that will advance you
- Building a network within your space - your ecosystem
- The snowball effect
- An action step to take to find success in connections
- Reach out to people who are bigger and better than you
- Become the person who can advance others
- ThE RaNDoM RoUnD
- How to reach out to Sean
- Links below
- Final words
Tweetable Quotes:
“We’re not gifted in as many areas as we think we are… I’m good at this one thing so let’s put in our sizable amount of energy into it and develop it.” - Sean Castrina
“Faster and better makes a lot of money…” - Sean Castrina
“I’ve never spent more than $10,000 on a start-up yet and I have had three 7-figure businesses.” - Sean Castrina
“Every month try to reach out to someone who is bigger and better than you.” - Sean Castrina
Resources Mentioned:
Connect with Sean on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Visit https://seancastrina.com/ to learn more.
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