Ghostwriter Derek Lewis literally wrote the book on how to write a business book. He’s worked with business authors around the world, from economists with the International Monetary Fund to entrepreneurs working with Google. Through his Ghostpreneur Academy, he’s coached ghostwriters from Italy to Argentina.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I really didn’t know what I was getting into. I don’t think I was overconfident because I was acutely aware of my shortcomings. I was naïve about what it took to succeed in being in business for yourself. So the difficulty was really ignorance, just pure blatant naïve ignorance”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big Book by Bo Burlingham
- Minding the Store Book by Stanley Marcus
- Quest for the Best Book by Stanley Marcus
- The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders Book by Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler and Bill Rosenzweig
Favourite Quote:
“If you‘re not having fun, you‘re doing something wrong.” – Groucho Marx
Recommended Online Resources:
- Schedule Once – Meeting and appointment scheduling software that helps you save time, increase customer satisfaction and be more competitive
- Uber Conference – is the best free conference call Simple, visual, and free to use, you can easily set up and join free conference calls without PINS, see who is on the call, and use powerful conferencing features
- Meet Edgar – Get more out of social media with Edgar! Schedule, share, and recycle the posts you want, when you want Save 8 hours a week, get started with just 10 posts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be smart but at the same time believe that it is possible. We live in a world, this hasn’t always been true whenever you look at the history of mankind, but today for most people in developed countries, and in certain instances even in developing economies, we live in a world where we can make our own rules, we live in a day and age where the resources on the opportunities are so widespread that even people who come from nothing can really create a life that they want. It is an incredible time to be alive and number one we should be grateful for that number two we should damn well not squander the opportunity”…[Listen for More]
More About Derek Lewis:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Nature answers every question.” Lailah Gifty Akita
Other Quotes From the Chat with Derek Lewis:
- “it was like the doors of heaven opened and the angels sing I have just fallen into exactly what I love doing”
- “it’s about helping people live better lives”
- “I was fortunate in that I surrounded myself with people who saw the potential that I had an believed in me.”
- “I didn’t value the value – I didn’t properly estimate the value that I brought to the table for my clients. And so because of that, just that realisation, once I realised how much I provide is worth to my clients, how much it helps them, how much it benefits them and I started actually value my worth and letting that reflect in my business. If I had done that at the outset I would probably have several hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have missed the opportunity of several hundreds of thousands of dollars in the first few years of my business because I didn’t know what I was doing”
- “my success has been faith in myself, having a great network of family and friends, especially my wife”
- “life is supposed to be fun it is not supposed to be fun, it is not supposed to be dreary and dreadful, and sad and mournful and hard – It’s not supposed to be that, life is supposed to be wonderful. And if my life isn’t wonderful I need to fix whatever the problem is because it is supposed to be.”
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