A summary of things you should know about Shark Tank MOMperneurs Take A Bite Out Of Publicity according to Rachel Olsen Introduction (0:43) I’m Rachel Olsen and I live inRead More
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]]>I’m Rachel Olsen and I live in San Diego, California with my husband and two daughters. I’ve had over 20 years of marketing and media experience, starting my career in corporate America. My recent book is a number one Amazon Best Seller and Barbara Corcoran called it a “must read.” I’m also the founder of bestmomproducts.com, which is a media consulting firm with mompreneurs learn how to get the buzz that they deserve for their business.
It’s one of the few books that isn’t written by one of the actual sharks and it’s interview based. It also focuses on media instead of funding for your business. It’s the only book endorsed by a shark, Barbara Corcoran, and it’s also the highest rated book on Amazon (that a shark didn’t write).
It’s one of the few books that isn’t written by one of the actual sharks and it’s interview based. It also focuses on media instead of funding for your business. It’s the only book endorsed by a shark, Barbara Corcoran, and it’s also the highest rated book on Amazon (that a shark didn’t write).
I would want that to be that any type of media or “media fame” doesn’t equal overnight success but it does provide validation that every business needs to gain credibility. Media is something ongoing that you need to do for your business to stay at the top of customers minds. I know this principle isn’t new for many, I think entrepreneurs tend to think that if they can just land one big media placement that the trajectory of their business will change. Sometimes it does but more often it’s something that they continually need to do.
It’s a short easy to read book, it’s an entertaining behind the scenes look at getting on and succeeding on the reality hit entrepreneur show Shark Tank. But it’s equally about learning how to pitch and present yourself to media and the realities of getting national exposure on the major hit show. It’s just six short chapters and you start out getting to know each mom’s story.
I’ll briefly introduce each one: the first one is Tiffany Krumins of Ava the Elephant (now Medimals). She was a nanny for a special needs child when she came up with her idea for a talking children’s medicine dispenser. She was Barbara’s first investment on the show so the book kind of goes through that.
Amber Schaub launched RuffleButts and it’s a ruffled baby bloomer and she did this before even having kids and it was one of the top fastest growing companies on the Inc 500 list. She went from being in real estate to being in the baby market and then having children and going down that road.
Another story I want to point out is Shelly Ehler because her story is a quintessential Shark Tank story. She started a 4 in 1 towel, her husband had lost his job and they were struggling financially and she kind of woke up in the middle of the night with her idea after being at the pool and trying to change her kids and struggling to do so. She looked around and realized that all the moms were struggling with the same thing. So she had to overcome so much because people were nay sayers so it was a total entrepreneurial emotional journey for her. She really takes you through in her story all the highs and the lows of being an entrepreneur. What actually happened is her deal that she received on Shark Tank actually dissipated after the show and she never got the check.
So I feel like looking at these stories that any entrepreneur can relate to this. The book is really their stories with some commentary on how they prepared for their pitch and kind of the reality of what happens afterwards which is not all roses all that time. I just kind of wanted to shed some light on the reality of that.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:45
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty” -Maya Angelou
I was a huge fan of Shark Tank and at the time it launched I was bringing a consumer product for parents to launch at market and I was pretty much obsessed with the show. I would see the mompreneurs go on (it’s a hybrid of mom-entrepreneur) and they were both managing babies at home and had these ideas and started businesses and at the time I just felt like I was just in the throws of baby-toddlerhood and I was just so impressed with how they were doing it. So I started a podcast and I was interviewing the mompreneurs because I wanted to learn how they were doing it and get the tips they had, and I noticed that most of the women I was talking to thought that getting a one time media placement would change their business overnight. So they would say things like “if I could only get my product on Good Morning America or Ellen or be one of Oprah’s favorite things then my business would just take off!” I knew from being in media that it had nothing to do with the one time placement, that PR and marketing are an ongoing process, but instead of being a nay-sayer I wanted to do it in a positive way. So I saw these trends and I knew I was going to write a book.
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Never Work Again according to Erlend Bakke Introduction (0:54) I’m a Norwegian entrepreneur, currently living in London, I have been an entrepreneurRead More
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]]>I’m a Norwegian entrepreneur, currently living in London, I have been an entrepreneur now for 7 or 8 years. I got fired from my first proper job where my boss confronted me and said, “Erlend, your either an egghead or an entrepreneur,” and luckily I’ve been able to find a way to make money being both an egghead and an entrepreneur. I’ve got about 25 companies and I make money predominately in the photography related industries and in outsourcing. So we have photography software, we do product photography, and we do image editing in the Philippines- busy entrepreneurs outsource to the Philippines to our virtual assistants down there.
What we’ve done is made it an interactive book. You can get it on audio, paperback, Kindle, but that’s not what I mean by interactive. We have lots of videos included in the book, so you can click a link and get access to a video that explains the exercise and you can get access to audio interviews with experts. So instead of viewing this as purely a book, we’ve created a ton of extra bonus content in it, so it’s more of an interactive document.
In addition, the way I wrote it is kind of Four Hour Work Week Part 2 because once you have the freedom you really want in your life, what do you really want to spend that freedom doing? So a lot of people say I kind of mix a lot of new age thinking with millennial entrepreneurial thinking.
I actually in the introduction say that you do not have to read the whole book. Take a look at the table of contents and read the section that you are most passionate about or you can read it front to back. I do suggest reading the introduction first.
For me, I thought money equaled freedom and I put all my effort and focus on that one thing. Freedom is actually five things, you can have political freedom, social freedom, monetary freedom, freedom of mind, and finally- seeing and understanding the oneness of the universe.
So the book starts out with me sitting at a fancy restaurant in Malibu, I’m having a nice dinner, I have my dream car outside, and I have come to a level on entrepreneurship where I am successful. I have the four hour work week and I am traveling around the world. I’m sitting there watching the sun come down and this should be one of the happiest moments of my life but I’m actually sitting there alone and I realize that I have been traveling around the world but people haven’t been able to join me on this journey because they are working- and they are working on something meaningful, something they are really passionate about.
From there I kind of spiral back to my earlier days as an entrepreneur, getting fired and then I kind of say to myself, “what would I be doing if there were no barriers?” A friend of mine had started a 360 product photography company in London, which was very unique, and I called him up and said, “Let’s have coffee.” When we had coffee I gave him my pitch of how we should be business partners and how I could take what he was doing to the next level and all I wanted in return was 10% of the company. From then I started up a similar company using the same model because it didn’t work out as a partnership. So I worked and worked and set up the outsourcing in the Philippines and things were going really well but I’m really stressed out and simply not happy. I continued working 6-7 days a week and cut out friends and my only goal was to make X amount of money. I pursued it until I hit rock bottom and had a massive panic attack that left me in the hospital. I was instructed to take a 3 month break to let my body heal and recover. Luckily I had set up teams and I had set up processes but instead of allowing those systems to work for me, I just worked harder. So I would free up time but I would just work even more. At this point I had to let my businesses run themselves and what I found out was when you empower other people and put your trust in them, in most cases they will actually appreciate being empowered by you to take on tasks. And this is what I find consistently with entrepreneurs, they are scared of giving away a task. I am constantly asking myself, “how can I get someone else to do this for me? Is this a task that I should be spending time on?”
So it’s really about freedom and figuring out what freedom really is for you. Most people think of freedom as being on a boat and not working, and lying on a beach and I’ve done that form of freedom. So basically after I recovered I started traveling around the world and I simplified my lifestyle. I cut out unnecessary costs that I didn’t need and I just traveled all over the world. But on this journey I have to figure out what I am really passionate about and what is freedom to me. About 50% of the book is about freedom and figuring this out.
From here we talk about freedom business blueprint. Once we figure out what we want to do in life we need to understand that a business is nothing more than a set of systems. Most business owners don’t understand that a business needs to have a team of four people that are talented and dedicated to your vision. Your freedom business uses the business model canvas, which is a way of mapping out a business so that you understand all the different parts of the company so that you can make sure that someone is doing those tasks.
Chapter 5 is all about time. Time is our most precious resource, it isn’t something we can get more of, so how are you valuing your time. It’s not really about how much you make, it’s about how much you make per hour you are working. So I use the example of a doctor friend that I have who makes the same amount of money that I do. The difference is he has to be in his office while I am traveling around the world because I have other people doing the tasks for me and I only work on the higher income generating activities because I’ve built systems and delegated and outsourced.
Chapter 6 is a business autopilot ‘cookbook.’ So this is about understanding how to create a tutorial or a system that someone else can do. What I suggest that every one do is to create recipes for every segment of their business.
Chapter 7 is all about outsourcing which I have been doing for years. I started do thing because I was not capable of doing some of these tasks myself I had to learn out to outsource them. I do this in the Philippines but the principles can be applied to anywhere.
That brings us to the conclusion where we break down that never working again is doing what you love. When you do what you love and you are willing to challenge yourself in pursuit of that then you will automatically grow to your potential, which is the meaning of life.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:29
“Once we know that life is difficult, once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult” – M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
Well the inspiration was that I went for the money. I wanted to make 25 million dollars and sell a company by the age of 35, that was my end goal. That was my end goal because I thought that having 25 million dollars would solve all of my problems. So the inspiration for the book is partly my story, all the lessons that I’ve learned over the past 7 years but also this deep routed pursuit of money being the end all and solution to all problems, which it isn’t.
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Self-Made Billionaire Effect according to John Sviokla: Introduction In this episode John Sviokla gives an in-depth summary of his and MitchRead More
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]]>In this episode John Sviokla gives an in-depth summary of his and Mitch Cohens’ book, The Self-Made Billionaire Effect, where they discuss how extreme producers create massive value.
In their book Sviokla and Cohen provide extensive research drawn from interviews with some of the most successful billionaires in order to debunk the perceptions people have of high producing entrepreneurs. The goal of the book is to teach you habits designed to improve your business value, how to start thinking like a billionaire, and how to be highly valuable to your employees.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that set very high expectations when it comes to business goals and are looking for solid ways to provide massive value when it comes to building a business.
This book is the first ever systematic study of a self-made billionaire.
It’s really a book you can jump in and jump out of. The introduction of the book tells you that these people are not who you think they are. 80% of them made their money in highly competitive contested markets.
The one thing I would say is to follow your curiosity about an opportunity area and don’t separate thinking from doing. If you want to pursue it, pursue it yourself.
The core notion that the book talks about is underneath every billion dollar opportunity what you will see is what we call a Producer or a Producer Performer Pair.
A Producer is the kind of person that knows how to design a business from scratch and to get all those design variables and land them well. That’s true whether these people are doing it in pizza, coffee, or high-tech.
As I mentioned before these people are not who you think, they come from all walks of life. Then we look at what makes these billionaires distinctive and what we found were these Five Habits of Mind.
The Five Habits of Mind are inventive execution, epithetic imagination, a relative view of risk, patient urgency, and producer performer pairing. For example epithetic imagination is a combination of understanding where markets going as well as a rational understanding of what the economic opportunity might be.
Throughout the book I give you a deep definition of each of the Five Habits of Mind and pair them with stories to help the reader get a visual of how each one works.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 03:51
“The universe is a fight between habit and novelty and novelty is winning.” Terence McKenna
I am a partner in the PwC consulting division and I hit up our Thought Leadership. I have been there for about four years and about a dozen years before that I was a consultant at a company called Diamond. And for a dozen years before that I was a professor at Harvard Business School in the area of technology strategy in innovation.
The inspiration was I was talking to my co-author Mitch Cohen and PwC is really about helping our clients create value and I told Mitch that we should study the people who created the most value on the planet. We took the self-made billionaires and made a book of all the things people could learn from their success.
Life Unlocked by Srinivasan S. Pillay
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Website Investor according to Jeff Hunt: Introduction In this episode Jeff Hunt gives an in-depth summary of his book, The WebsiteRead More
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]]>In this episode Jeff Hunt gives an in-depth summary of his book, The Website Investor, where he shares a guide to buying an online website business for passive income.
In his book Hunt provides a roadmap for finding highly profitable online businesses for sale and shows you how to get the most value out of them without having to start from scratch. The goal of the book is to help you estimate the value of a website, negotiate price with website sellers, differentiate between low and high effort web businesses, and hire the right virtual assistants to help grow your web business.
This book is perfect for serial entrepreneurs who are interested in owning profitable online businesses that have already developed a customer base without having to start fresh.
A lot of people are interested in entrepreneurship and buying your own business and because of that a lot of books are coming out on the topic. But really there are no books about buying online businesses and that’s really a shame. My book teaches people exactly how to do that.
A lot of people read through the whole book and then go back and use it as a reference. The important thing is that you take time to stop and ponder what it’s saying and how it applies to you and then take action on it.
In any enterprise of any size there is always a buy vs build decision. The key principle in the book is that investing is better than inventing in almost every case. The action item associated with that principle is to get out there and start looking and educate yourself on what’s available.
The first thing you will notice about my book are the stories. I have a number of case studies that are essentially stories of acquisitions that I’ve made. Those stories are there because it is helpful for people to get an idea of what their website would look like, pricing, etc. if they were to purchase one.
The second thing the book is all about is process. The book is a comprehensive guide on how to do it and it really follows the same kind of processes you would use in making any kind of significant purchase and starts with where to buy, how to search website listings, and how to narrow down those listings to something you would be interested in. It starts at the beginning helping people find where those opportunities are, and then it moves into how to evaluate. After you’ve picked a few that you want to evaluate then you need to dig in and figure out how much they are worth. So the book has a really nice chapter on how to value and put a price tag on a website to give you an idea of what you should pay.
There are chapters on negotiation because many of website purchases are negotiated and don’t have a hard and fixed price. And then we go over how to transfer the website from the seller to the buyer and making sure everyone is taken care of and everything is protected.
The book also covers lots of other topics like buying international websites, organizing yourself as a business, and how to sell a website if you choose to. We discuss the topics of apps vs websites and whether you should buy one or not.
As you read through the book you will get the idea that buying in to a website business vs starting from scratch is just a whole lot easier.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:55
“Be the nicest buyer.” – Jeff Hunt
I’ve worked for many years in middle management at IBM where we had achieved most of our career goals. We felt like we just wanted to give back some of the blessing we had received so my family and I sold everything we had and moved overseas to a western Asian country where we served for about seven years. Once the kids grew up we knew it was time to come home. When I got home I didn’t feel like I could return to the corporate world very easily with the seven year gap on my resume so with little cash I decided to start buying websites and since bought about 300 income generating websites. Along with the website investing I am also an advisor for an online business acquisition for a company called Cloud Income Properties.
I meet a lot of people who would be better off buying in rather than starting a business from scratch. I go to conferences and people are really attracted to the online business space because of the flexibility that it offers. What most people don’t realize is the online business failure rate is even higher than offline just because people don’t invest themselves into it as much. And so the inspiration for my book is introducing all these people who are interested in a business to this idea of buying a website. The other inspiration is to help myself because the more people who are aware of this possibility, the more websites come out of the wood work that are for sale that I can buy and add to my portfolio.
Managing by Harold Geneen
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Get A Grip according to Mike Paton: Introduction In this episode Mike Paton takes a deep dive into his book, Get ARead More
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]]>In this episode Mike Paton takes a deep dive into his book, Get A Grip, where he discusses how to get everything you want from your entrepreneurial business.
In his book Paton shares the entrepreneurial story of two startup founders that uncovers the real-life hardships and accomplishments that come with starting an entrepreneurial business. The goal of the book is to help you understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to resolve typical issues that come with running a startup, and how to create a more effective team.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are in a business partnership or own a business that is team oriented and need an action plan to improve their organizational operations.
The book is a real world, in the trenches, gritty, true story of a topical entrepreneurial organization. It’s very instructive, it’s a system full of simple practical tools, and our intent was to write this book in a way where an entrepreneurial owner or leader might read the book, see things that feel and sound familiar and be able to take the techniques to solve their own business problems.
This book is much more logically digested front to back rather than diving in and out.
Vision without traction is hallucination. And the common entrepreneurial challenge isn’t a lack of vision. The real challenge is migrating that vision into the trenches of that business, helping everybody in the organization understand it, internalize it, and own the appropriate piece of it so together everyone is executing on that vision and what you want actually happens. I believe EOS and the tools we characterized in the book is a great way to help the typical entrepreneurial leadership team get better at that fast.
The book illustrates the people who founded and are running a typical small business. There are about 35 people in this organization, it’s called Swan Services, and the founding entrepreneurs have been wildly successful in the first seven years of this business. We meet these owners when they have begun hitting a few ceilings and starting to feel as though the business is running them rather than the other way around. What the readers are introduced to are a lot of the common frustrations, challenges, and root causes of the inevitable ceiling that people who run and own small businesses hit from time to time. As the story unfolds we take a deep dive into those root causes and we watch the members of the leadership team get together in a room with the aid of a professional EOS implementer and master the tools, disciplines, and simple concepts that EOS teaches to identify, prioritize, and resolve those common obstacles and issues.
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“Every entrepreneurial business needs a system for operating.” – Mike Paton
I am a lifelong entrepreneur, grew up in an entrepreneurial household and today I spend all day, every day, surrounded by entrepreneurs and their leadership teams helping them implement a system for running a small business called EOS (The Entrepreneurial Operating System).
My co-author and I both individually believed that this book needed to be written. We both work in the trenches with entrepreneurial leadership teams all the time, we both are avid learners, and both fallen in love with a forum for a book and we believe that telling the EOS story using the entrepreneurial approach would be a compelling read for most of the people we surround ourselves with.
Traction: Get A Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Free Agent according to Katy Tynan: Introduction In this episode Katy Tynan takes a deep dive into her book, Free Agent, whereRead More
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]]>In this episode Katy Tynan takes a deep dive into her book, Free Agent, where she reveals what it takes to be successful in the business of independent contacting and freelance work.
In her book Tynan provides actionable steps, case studies, and tools you will need to help you transition from a full-time employee to your own independent freelance practice. The goal of the book is to teach you how to become an in-demand resource, understand the business of freelancing, how to get your independent business off the ground, and how to avoid the common pitfalls of freelancing.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have a special set of skills and are interested in leaving their full-time job in order to start monetizing their skillsets independently.
When I approach writing my feeling is that my reader is somebody that wants to be able to get right to the point and find the information they are looking for. And so when I wrote this book I wanted to make sure it was very practical, that it was actionable, and that somebody could pick it up and get exactly what they need out of it. The second thing that I feel is different about this book is it’s directed at people who are looking to get into this as a career path.
If you are an independent professional and you have a problem you can flip right to the chapter you need.
What I want for people when they read this book is to be able to say I can do this. If you have a passion, skill, and desire to work this way you can.
I divided the book into three sections and the reason for that is because I feel like from a logical perspective there are three reasons why someone would pick up a book like this. So the very first section is where we talk about the emerging trend of this free agent labor force. Who are the people that are doing this? Why are we talking about the free agent force and where did it come from? It’s fascinating to me how these trends arise and one of the things I talk about is the transition from pension plans. In the first two chapters I dove into that backdrop which I think is important for a lot of people who are wondering how and why this freelancing free agent trend came to be and why we are working the way we are working. And also to talk about the fact that this is a long-term thing. I expect that people are going to continue to work independently for the long term and that it’s a career path that a lot of people can follow.
Section two is very practical for people who want to get started and transition from being an employee to being self-employed. This section includes everything that you can possibly think of for how to set up your business, what you need from a professional team perspective, what you need for a corporate structure, and how you are going to pay your taxes. I think what holds people back from pursuing this as a career path is that feeling that they don’t know what questions to ask, who to call, or what structures and mechanics they need in place. So this section is all about the practical aspects of getting setup as an independent professional. It includes inks, resources, practical information, and case studies and stories of people who have made this transition themselves.
The third section of the book is about strategies for long-term success as an independent professional. Another chapter in this section is probably the most important and it’s about balancing independent work and life.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 08:17
“It’s so hard when you are the one who is responsible for everything and yet it’s so rewarding when you are the one who is responsible for everything.” –Chris Brogan
I’m an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. I started my career in tech and helping people understand how technology could work for them. But really what I found was that I love people, I love working with people, and I love helping people solve problems and figure things out. So that’s how I got started working independently as I just love going around and meeting people and finding ways that we can work together and solve problems.
The inspiration for me to pursue the path of becoming an independent professional came about six years ago and then what I found is it’s tough to do. We don’t teach people in school how to pursue this career path and so I felt like there needed to be more resources, more conversation, and more opportunity for people to understand what this path looks like.
Drive by Daniel Pink
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]]>A summary of things you should know about How To Quit Working according to Jeff Steinmann: Introduction In this episode Jeff Steinmann reveals all his insights on his book, HowRead More
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]]>In this episode Jeff Steinmann reveals all his insights on his book, How To Quit Working, where shares a simple plan to leave your job for a life a freedom.
In his book Steinmann provides flexible strategies, examples, and step-by-step instructions on what it takes to create your own business with the smallest amount of repercussions as possible. The goal of the book is to teach you innovative strategies for becoming an entrepreneur, how to overcome typical marketing barriers, how to develop a business idea while working, and how to find your ideal market.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are currently working for someone else and are ready to take their entrepreneurial journey to the next level.
I tried really hard to eliminate all of the business words and just talk in plain simple English. I try to be really practical and tailor all of the information in the book to someone who is working a full-time job and trying to get out and start their own business.
I specifically designed the book to be read from front to back.
The concept that I want the reader to take away is to get away from this whole thought of success and failure. You have got to start to think about everything you do in terms of a hypothesis.
The most important thing for those working a full-time job and trying to quit and start a business is changing the way that you look at starting a business. You have to get away from what I call the idea mentality and the idea mentality is perpetuated by shows like Shark Tank. You have to get away from that idea and move towards the concept of figuring out what it is that people are already gravitating towards you for and that’s where your business has to start if you want to be successful and remain sane. Once you come up with your idea you will need to get the word out via social media or bulletin boards or church groups or any other way you see fit. From there you will want to figure out what problems people have with that particular topic and find ways the meet those needs and fix those problems. Now that you have that hypothesis you need to go out and test it and the way you do that is by asking people if they want to pay you money to do it. Your hypothesis is not proven until someone offers you money and it isn’t until then that you know you have an idea that is worth something.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:01
“If social media is changing your life than you are on it too much.” – Jeff Steinmann
I am kind of like everyone else in that I went to high school and college and I thought there was no better option but to get a job. So I fell into a career in technology and did that for about 15 years and tried many times to escape the gravity of the corporate world and was unsuccessful many of those times. April 15, 2012 I was finally successful and I have been doing business in marketing consulting, real estate investing, and also building this great platform around how to help people quit their jobs and start a business.
The inspiration was to share the difference in terms of mindset, approach, and all those different kinds of things when wanting to quit your job and start your own business.
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging according to Stephanie O’Dea: Introduction In this episode Stephanie O’Dea shares all her insights on herRead More
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]]>In this episode Stephanie O’Dea shares all her insights on her book, Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging, where she discusses an alternative job for stay-at-home moms.
In her book O’Dea shares her personal story of how she turned to blogging as a way to make significant amounts of income while working at home in her pajamas and taking care of her 3 children. The goal of the book is to help you uncover things that interest you, teach you how to turn your interests into a money-making blog, and show you other ways to earn money from home.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have an interest in creating an online business that is unique to their own personal interests, hobbies, and skillsets.
At the time when I first started I was determined that I could make something from virtually nothing and that’s what I did and what I am hoping to share with others who want to find a way to make a legitimate income from their kitchen table.
Most of my reviews from Amazon and my friends who tested it said that they sat and read it all in one setting. It’s a quick read, the way I write is the way I speak in sort of a conversational style. I think reading it through once to get a fill for it and then going back and dog earing the pages that you want to dive a little bit more into.
My whole purpose for writing this was to show that you can make something from absolutely nothing.
This book is geared to the beginner blogger or the on the fence blogger who is not sure how to do it and may be a little intimidated with some of the advice out there. And so I spelled it out in a way that search engine optimization is giving the readers what they are already searching for.
Another thing that I like about the way I formatted my book verses other books is that I am ok with sharing insight or secrets. I think holding your cards too closely isn’t helpful and so I fully laid out the steps that I have taken. I also talk about how I consider myself a mommy blogger but I don’t talk about my kids. I have three girls and their pictures have never been online. I don’t even have a personal Facebook page, I believe in keeping family life and business completely and totally separate.
I talk about how to sell your own ads in the sidebar, how to create your own product to sell, and I’ve dabbled a little bit into the publishing world.
One other piece of advice I would give to you is to go with the gut test. I think women in general are blessed with this intuition and if it feels wrong, it’s wrong.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 06:36
“Handle every single interaction online as a customer service representative would. You’re your best advocate and you will always be your best personal relations manager.” – Stephanie O’Dea
I am a mom of three girls, a 13, 10 and 5 year old. And I am lucky enough that I work fulltime at home while I am able to take care of my children. I am a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a slow cooking expert, and your typical normal everyday mommy blogger next door.
I personally needed to make money from home and so I wanted to dive into finding a legitimate way to do that. This book is written for others moms who might be in the same situations. I had this fire in my belly that I had to find a way to make money from home.
21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires by Brian Tracy
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Do Cool Sh*t according to Miki Agrawal: Introduction In this episode Miki Agrawal takes a deep dive into her book, Do CoolRead More
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]]>In this episode Miki Agrawal takes a deep dive into her book, Do Cool Sh*t, where she reveals her insights on starting a successful company and living happily ever after.
In her book Agrawal teaches you fresh yet effective tactics for starting a new company from brainstorming to raising money to getting quality press coverage without having any connections. The goal of the book is to provide you with a quirky yet honest look into the life of a serial entrepreneur and give you the confidence to quit your job, start your own business, and live a happy life.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are currently working for someone else and are ready to make a move into the world of self-employment.
My book is one that you want to finish and finish fast so that you get all the answers to the thrilled adventures I take you on.
You can go in and out because each chapter holds their own, but it does have a story art if you read it from front to back.
Put your running shoes on a walk out that door! The minute you walk out that door and put one foot in front of the other things will start to fall into place.
When I was 24 years old I started by going to these one on one interviews with potential investors. Sitting across from these investors I found myself very nervous and not feeling like myself. So for six months I just sat in meeting after meeting, feeling very uncomfortable, and raising no money. I knew that I need to figure out what I was doing wrong and that’s when I realized I wasn’t authentic. It became very clear that if you can’t be confident in a meeting they aren’t going to invest in you. I started hosting fundraising dinner parties where I would invite anyone I knew with extra change in their pockets. I knew free food and a nice evening would get people in the door. When it came to introducing the business idea I realized at the time that I was not confident enough and had someone else pitch it for me. From those dinner parties I was able to raise $250,000 for my first restaurant business. This is just one of the examples that I share in the book and I share every bit of the detail of hosting these dinner parties.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 07:10
“Iteration is perfection.” – Unknown
I started off working in Investment Banking when I graduated from Cornell University. 9/11 happened just a few days after I moved to New York, I was supposed to be at the World Trade Center that day but it was the first time in my life that I slept through my alarm clock. That was sort of my wake up call. I played professional soccer for a couple of years; I worked in the film business and worked my way up in production. I had my first stomach ache when I decided to start my first business which was a gluten free farm-to-table pizza concept in New York City. My newest project is called THINX which is a women’s empowerment apparel company that provides a sustainable underwear solution for women to wear doing their time of the month.
When you are in college entrepreneurship is really not something that you study and there wasn’t an entrepreneurship course. And so I began to read books by entrepreneurs and walked away so inspired but with so many questions. I wanted to find a book that I could read and one that gave me the step by step system to go from step zero to step one in business and life.
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Accidental Entrepreneur according to Gerry Murphy: Introduction In this episode Gerry Murphy shares his book, The Accidental Entrepreneur, where he tellsRead More
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]]>In this episode Gerry Murphy shares his book, The Accidental Entrepreneur, where he tells the fascinating story on how he became an entrepreneur and how, with a small team, he turned a relatively small investment into a multi-million Euro business.
In his book Murphy gives you a step-by-step manual for launching a startup and building your own successful business even if you have no capital or commercial experience. The goal of the book is to help you grow a new business with very limited resources through real-life case studies, invaluable checklists, and a wealth of inspirational advice.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to create a small investment business on the side or for established entrepreneurs looking for some insights on selling their startup to larger firms.
Mine is different in that it’s presented based on my own life story.
You have to read part one from front to back. My readers tell me that once they start reading part one it’s sort of a page turner and they can’t put it down but you can dip in and out of part two.
I believe that entrepreneurs need to work on their business not just in their business.
Part one is autobiographical and it tells the story of me growing up in my hometown of Churchtown in North Cork in Ireland and my dream to renew my home place and how that turned me into a commercial entrepreneur. The book starts with an introduction and then there are seventeen chapters in part one. I talk about when I was born in 1954 to 1972 and I have some beautiful childhood memories of long summer days of harvesting the hay, milking the cows, and going to local village festivals. I give a little flavor of that in the beginning of the book and then I recall my first business failure as a 10 year old when my latest project failed to deliver. From 1972 to 1977 I write about leaving Churchtown and getting a job out of high school. I got married in 1979 and my two children were born in 1982 and 1988. During that period I could see that the village was not doing well and I wanted to do something about it. Seventeen years ago in 1997 I saw an article in the national paper about how the local pub had been closed and the inside of it had been shipped to Vienna to feed an Irish team. I was appalled by the idea and I realized it was time that I must do something and try to get my hometown renewed. At 43 years of age I made a dramatic decision and decided to give up my job and start working as a social entrepreneur and to lookout for non-executive directorship roles. So I set up the Churchtown Village Renewal Trust and then I bought some property in the village and I reopened the bar/restaurant pub. In 1999 I realized that I needed to build some houses in the village, creating some life, and I bought a field and got the planning permission for 77 properties. So my field of dreams worked and families decided to live in the village and the population grew from 70 to 600. After opening the pub and building the homes in the village I saw that the small shop came up for sale and realized that it was very important for the village and there needed to be a bigger one. The only way I could achieve that was if I bought it myself. So by accident I became a shop keeper but of course I wasn’t able to work in the shop on a day to day basis so it wasn’t making any money. Shortly after that another shop came up for sale locally and it had a filling station and I bought that to try and spread the overhead.
Part two of the book has 16 chapters. In this part we talk about the joy of business, the benefits of testing and dry runs, that implementation is the key, the need to be able to scale your idea and multiply it, and the idea that you need to solve a problem and find a solution to create a customer base. And then I talk about the business plan and how you might write that, what should be in it, and the marketing plan. We look at the importance of design and creating a brand. And I make a big point about recognizing failure fast and moving on if it’s not working.
“When you don’t know what to do, do nothing.” – Gerry Murphy
I grew up on a farm in Ireland and I was born in 1954 so I am 60 this year. I got a job immediately after high school and I started working in a commercial bank called Bank of Ireland. I spent 17 year at Bank of Ireland then I left the bank and went to a savings called First National. In 1997 I took a big plunge and went out on my own as a social entrepreneur and by accident I became an accidental commercial entrepreneur.
There were three reasons why I wrote the book. The first reason was that I wanted to encourage others not to risk staying in an unfulfilling job and to consider creating their own employment. Secondly I really like books and I felt that I had learned a lot over the years and so I wanted to distill my own ideas and present them to others. I also wanted to tell the story of how I renewed my hometown in Ireland.
Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind by Al Koran
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