The Entrepreneur Way

Patrick McKenna is the Founder and CEO of Strike Social, a global technology-enabled digital advertising company. Mr. McKenna has more than 30 years of experience in business development and technology consulting for major corporations. He co-founded and sold telecommunications company WCI in 1996. He was recruited by Microsoft as part of a 50 person team to develop the internet audio and video industry. Patrick has spent his career mentoring and investing in startup companies and in 2013 founded Strike Social, which was named the No. 17 fastest-growing private company in the U.S. for 2017 by Inc. Magazine. Strike Social develops AI-powered software and services for digital advertisers across industry verticals with over half of the Fortune 500 benefiting from its solutions including brands like Beat, Xbox, Honda, Mattel, Lionsgate, and large financial institutions. “you are going to work. Nothing is easy you are going to be working and it’s going to be 18 to 20 hours a day and that’s not going to start. The good news is, is that once you are trained to work that hard when you work an 8 to 12-hour day you kind of feel like you had half day. So there is an upshot you will get used to it but you are going to work, so be prepared for that one”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74Q

As one of the founders of Acorn Finance Paul Thompson has been dedicated to providing the smaller businesses of the UK access to the very best funding options, normally only accessible by larger businesses. Paul has spent 5 years as a board member of the NACFB, has featured on BBC Inside Out and Acorn Finance have been awarded 6 best UK broker awards since 2013. “look after the finances, don’t leave things to chance, allow time to do things but accept that it’s not always an option. So ideally you are always looking as far forward as possible with your expansion plans, with recruitment, anything like that so that you can work it into your cash flow. And if you know that you are not going to be able to work it into cash flow make a plan early on and speak to somebody independent so that you can get the very best deal. If that is not an option because of either an opportunity that pops up that you need to take advantage of or an emergency that pops up and you have got to look after… you have got to deal with an unexpected tax bill or machinery breaking down… then have your ducks in order. So have your accounts up-to-date, make sure there is somebody tasked with keeping monthly figures available so that if you go to a finance provider you have got all the information that they are going to ask for ready at the outset ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74M

Mary Tindall is an award-winning conversion copywriter, content strategist, leadership visibility consultant and PR professional. She works with clients across the U.S., from startups to Fortune 500 companies, creating strategic and compelling messaging to grow their brands. “be confident in your value. And not only to be confident in your value but to make sure that you are delivering real value. I think that when you figure out what problem your customers are trying to solve, and this sounds so basic but I think this is where a lot of people get tripped up, find out what problem you’re solving for them which may not even be what you think it is, talk to them, talk to the people you are trying to serve and figure out what is on their minds and figure out what you can offer that no one else’s offering that you can offer better. And then deliver that to them and then understand the value that you are delivering an communicate that to them in the most effective way”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74I

Ed Crain is president and CEO of Kingstar Direct, a performance-driven video production company, and Kingstar Media, a digital brand advertising/marketing agency. He has specialized for more than 30 years in entrepreneurial product launches and brand building, as well as in strategic media campaigns that drive ROI across multiple platforms. “Don’t give up, you are going to fail, you are not going to get an account or there’s going to be scary weeks maybe months, you might lose everything. What is everything? If you start and you do fail you can go and get a job. So for me it is contained the fear when you are starting a business. You have to be so committed, it’s not a hobby, it’s your life. Don’t go into business unless you are prepared to give hundred and ten percent and you are prepared to make sacrifices and you are prepared to have those around you that love you all work with you make sacrifices to because they understand or they get to understand enough of what you need to do to be successful ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74E

Rick Snyder, a business coach, writer, speaker, and consultant, has launched several businesses and is an expert in mentoring, training, and teaching others how to utilize the process of bringing intuition into an effective business plan and company culture. He is CEO of Invisible Edge™ and author of “Decisive Intuition.” “keep listening to that deeper voice inside you and to also make sure you have some mentors and trusted advisers that are in your life that you can really go to as a sounding board especially when times get tough or you doubt yourself. It’s so important to have those influences in your life that you can go to that you trust that keep you on track to what’s most important”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74y

Kris Boesch is the CEO of Choose People, a company that transforms company cultures, increases employee happiness and boosts the bottom-line. She is also the author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. Kris has been featured as a workplace culture expert in Inc., Entrepreneur and Forbes. “to not hide in creativity… being on the skinny branches actually sharing what is already there… Really check yourself. If you have an opportunity in your business that you know you are not leveraging because you know it makes you a little nervous or a little uncomfortable like that’s actually where there is to go to work”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74u

Ron Coury is a well-known name to longtime members of the Southern Nevada business community. A former U.S. Marine, Coury has worked as a casino dealer, real estate agent, founder of a limousine service and partner in bars, restaurants, major graphics and glass companies, and automobile dealerships. “remember to words: mental fortitude. Possessed the determination to persevere in the face of adversity. Believe in the project you have undertaken, don’t let failure be an option. So that mental fortitude that empowers you to not take defeat in stride but rather to resist it, find a way through it or around it. And demonstrate some tenacity to achieve the ultimate goal you drained of”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74n

Bill Wooditch is the author of "Fail More, Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success" and the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises (a subsidiary of The Wooditch Group, a risk-management and corporate insurance firm with annual sales of $100 million). He works with Fortune 500 companies like AIG, Old Republic, Zurich, and Bank of America to improve their sales and leadership. Wooditch’s keynotes include the National Sales Conference for MetaBank and the National Annual Meeting for Boy Scouts of America. He appeared regularly on Steve Harvey’s “Act like a Success” show and has also appeared on CNBC, Fox, and CBS. He has written for Inc., New York Daily News, and the American Management Association. “believe in yourself, never ever waver in yourself. Grow your confidence, people will perceive and feel your confidence before they ever wait around to learn of your competence. Confidence confidence confidence. And it comes from being prepared and knowing yourself ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74i

Dr Jacqui Taylor is an international web scientist, one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs, one of the Top Ten global Internet of Things innovators and an independent IoT industry analyst. I’m sharing my proven success plan with 1 million entrepreneurs to create the Empathy Economy for the IoT. “find your why. Because all the things that we do as an entrepreneur we have just got to know why we would do them. The journey itself is the point… obviously we are pushing to get to a destination. But finding your why is the key. And the reason for that is the how, how am I going to get there, how I going to do it you will discover that because we have already talked about what problem are you solving. You know what problem you’re solving, find out why you would do the entrepreneur journey to solve that problem. Because as you share your passion the how you achieve that that will unfold as we all grow into ourselves as entrepreneurs, into ourselves as solving those problems” …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-74c

Warren Cass is best-selling author and an international speaker on the topics of influence, communication, leadership and soft skills. He is particularly fascinated about how the world has changed, and how this change impacts the way we interact with each other. “focus on where your passion lies and really then think about how partnerships might be the thing that help you grow your… so who are the potential people to collaborate with? Who are the people who already have the attention of your audience whether that industry associations, publications, existing influences speaking? Who are the people that you are to going collaborate with to fast track engagement with your audience”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-747