The Entrepreneur Way

Neil Ball
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Sep 30, 2019 • 48min

1338: Really Understanding Your Why and Putting it Front and Centre with Jason Resnick Founder and Owner of Rezzz

Jason Resnick helps developers and designers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build predictable revenue. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping online businesses increase sales and decrease the time to first purchase through conversion and behavioral strategy, with personalization, email, and marketing campaigns. “really understand your why and put it front and centre. And when I say put it front and centre… if you need a sticky note to put it on your monitor go ahead and do so. Because if you understand your why then every decision that you make will be towards that why. You won’t deviate from it… Understand where your why is on why you started the business in the first place because ultimately it wasn’t because you wanted to work more ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7cc
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Sep 29, 2019 • 1h 12min

1337: Dreaming Big Enough and Persisting long Enough to Enjoy the Fruits of Whatever You Imagined with Dave Whitley Founder and Owner of Iron Tamer Enterprises LLC

Iron Tamer Dave Whitley is a motivational speaker and strongman based in Nashville TN. As a kid, Dave was overweight and had a terrible stutter. Retreating into a world of fantasy and comic books, he dreamed of becoming SuperHuman. Now, as a motivational speaker, he uses SuperHuman feats of strength to share his message with his audience. “persist in whatever the next small step is. We all have the big vision, we all come up with a plan but it’s very easy to see that is something that can be way far down the road and gets caught up in the day-to-day busy-ness of our business. And a long period of time can pass and you been very busy but you haven’t really accomplished anything. So persisting in whatever that end vision is and making it as real as possible in your mind so much so that if you wake up in the morning and think okay if I’ve already complex this goal what’s my day going to look like today versus what can I do today to take me closer to the goal. And that’s not just semantics there’s very important mental shift in their of what I call ‘living from the end’. So if I can really imagine and put myself in the place of the person whose accomplished whatever it is that I’ve decided I want to do it’s almost like from that point of view I can look back to where I am in the present moment and see the path that it took to get there much more clearly than trying to create a path from here to there out of information I don’t know yet ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7c8
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Sep 28, 2019 • 47min

1336: It's Not about Ideas Persistence Is the Key Differentiator with Kris Østergaard Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Singularity U Nordic

Kris Østergaard is a sought after speaker, facilitator, researcher and expert on innovation in legacy organizations, corporate cultures and exponential organizations. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley. His new book is Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future (Wiley, June 10, 2019). “the best advice is persistence. Regardless of how difficult it is persistence is the key differentiator it’s not about ideas, ideas are a dime a dozen as the saying goes. It’s really about the people who have persistence and just don’t give up and continue to find new ways to achieve what it is they are trying to achieve. Those are the ones who will ultimately succeed”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7c4
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Sep 27, 2019 • 1h 21min

1335: Making Success Inevitable with Scott Painter Founder and Owner of Fair

Scott Painter is Fair’s Founder and CEO, and a serial entrepreneur in the automotive and technology industries who has founded dozens of disruptive companies over the past 25 years. Prior to Fair, Scott founded TrueCar with the aim of eliminating negotiation from the car-buying process by providing data-driven pricing research to both dealers and consumers. Painter also founded Cars Direct, which took the pioneering step of introducing upfront pricing to auto retail. Painter regularly attends TED, All Things D, and is a member of the World Economic Forum, regularly attending and speaking at its annual meeting in Davos since 2011. “reputation is everything”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bZ
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Sep 26, 2019 • 58min

1334: Saving Time and Money in a Busy World with Adam Coleman Founder and Owner of HR Locker and HR Interventions Ltd

Adam Coleman Founder of HRLocker.com, which is a cloud software platform that makes people management and recruitment easy for Companies. Before HRLocker Adam was part of the initial start-up team at Esat Digifone which after 3 years was sold to BT for over €1 Billion, which was technically Ireland's first Unicorn. “is don’t call themselves entrepreneurs. I think it’s a term that is been massively over abused”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bT
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Sep 25, 2019 • 1h 23min

1333: Going Beyond Your Programmed Values to do What Needs to be Done with Susan Fowler

Susan Fowler is the bestselling author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work… and What Does and newly released, Master Your Motivation. She is co-author of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. A thought leader on applying motivation science, Susan is a globally sought-after speaker and consultant. “remember why you are doing what you are doing, that if you are doing what you are doing for reasons what we call optimally motivating, if they are based on your values, if you have a deep sense of purpose, if it’s because it brings you joy, because you are making a deep contribution to others, because you are making the world a better place, if you can stay grounded in those things then you are going to be successful. But if you get into a business because you think it is going to make more money or because you want power or status you are going to be short lived”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bO
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Sep 24, 2019 • 35min

1332: Building a Business That You Can Extricate Yourself From with Chris Parker Founder and Owner of What Is My Ip Address

Chris Parker is the founder of WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. In January 2000, WhatIsMyIPAddress.com was launched as a solution to a simple problem, finding his office IP address. Rather than panicking when laid off in 2014, Chris seized the opportunity and devoted himself full-time to his website, which now attracts over 6,000,000 visitors monthly. “doing things that challenge you, that make you uncomfortable… Building a network of friends and people you know that our entrepreneurs. Some that are further along the new and some that are just starting out but most importantly people that have a very different perspective than you that are fundamentally different people than you. The geeks like to hangout with the geeks and the jocks like to hangout with the jocks. I think it is important as entrepreneurs is to have people that will challenge the way we look at things, challenge the way that we think and that helps us to think about things from more perspectives and see holes that we wouldn’t normally see in our business ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bG
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Sep 23, 2019 • 60min

1331: Managing Profit First to Prevent Bad Things Happening with Rob Braiman Founder and Owner of Cogent Analytics LLC

Rob Braiman is CEO and founder of Cogent Analytics, a business consulting firm. Since 2005, he has personally engaged with over 1800 small to medium size businesses. An entrepreneur himself, he knows the challenges of the journey, and his passion is to help others achieve success and profitability that also enhances quality of life. He has grown Cogent Analytics from 6 people to over 120 inside of 5 years; and has ranked on the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies 3 years in a row. “manage profit. Profit is not about greed, it’s about solvency, it’s about building equity, it’s about retiring debt, it’s about taking care of your family, it’s about the benefits you offer to your employees. And if you don’t manage profit first bad things happen. So, I am a profit for sky and I don’t want to again communicate that that somehow supposed to be about greed because it’s not. The responsibility of every small business owner every mid-sized business owner, every large business is to produce a minimum mandatory profit that is engineered within a company because that impacts so many areas of the business. Don’t do that haphazardly do it purposefully”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bB
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Sep 22, 2019 • 50min

1330: Going Beyond Your own Brain and Your own Limitations with Joseph Bikart Co-Founder and Partner of Templar Advisors

Joseph Bikart is a founding member is a founding partner and director of the international consulting firm Templar Advisors. For the past 20 years, following a first career in investment banking, he has advised leaders in corporate and public life on their communication and negotiations. Through his work with thousands of decision-makers, he has created Decisiology, an innovative approach to executive coaching, drawing from his studies at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock in London. He is also a keynote speaker, and a lecturer at the London Business School. “know who you are. It is too easy to be in business for the wrong reasons. It’s too easy to be in a job because we think it’s going to be more lucrative or prestigious all sorts of things which have nothing to do with us, who we are truly inside ourselves… Understand who you are, understand what drives you, understand what your passions are, understand what gives you joy and fulfilment. And this is the greatest roadmap to your business. And at moments when we all feel lost, we all feel we’ve lost our ways it’s really good to reconnect with that and redraw the map based on that”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7bv
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Sep 21, 2019 • 35min

1329: How to Use Relationships to Expand Your Sphere of Influence to Find More Opportunities with JoAnne Funch Founder and Owner of Linked In 4 Business

JoAnne Funch is the Founder of Linked In For Business. She's an expert at transforming professionals from making random connections on LinkedIn, to strategic/high-value contacts that result in more profitable and long-term opportunities. In a world of digital marketing, JoAnne inspires business professionals to think differently about how they develop their connections, engage their contacts, and grow their business. “ask really hard questions of yourself. And so what I mean by that might be questions like: Why am I making this business harder than it has to be? I see that all the time with entrepreneurs. Another one might be: Am I hiding or playing to small and why am I doing that? What am I afraid of? Why am I holding myself back? Another one might be. Am I doing busy work because I am afraid to be seen? Busywork just keeps us busy and it keeps us safe from showing up. Another one might be: Where do you think you will be a year from now if you keep that up? I mean those are hard questions that I think require a lot of self-examination. So my best advice is ask yourself the hard questions, the things you might be avoiding” …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7br

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