Susie Carder isn’t your average business coach. And when you hire Susie, being average or running an average business instantly drops from your list of options. Susie makes being average really uncomfortable. In a relentless pursuit of her own goals, she comes with a 20-year proven track record, two ten million dollar companies under her belt, her fair share of wild success and painful failure, working with entrepreneurs around the world whose companies are grossing between $250,000-$10,000,000 on strategic growth strategies. The creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Susie’s expertise lies in the development of operations, finance, sales accountabilities and marketing systems for your business leading to very predictable and substantial revenue, profit growth and investment opportunities. Susie excels in creating the structure and team necessary to guide any company through the turbulence and uncertainty of dramatic growth. She is the author of 9 books, on business success and strategy, her 10th book is coming out in 2019, Bootstrap to Big Time
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“early on and being an entrepreneur was how do I take all of my creative energy because I am very creative; and in my youth I was extremely creative and less organised. So, the biggest challenge was being systematised and organised creating the structure. Because in the past I thought structure constrained me, but the reality is structure allows me to do more and be more. So, it was learning to be more systematic, learning to be more organised, learning to be more stable, learning to put things in processes. So that was probably the hardest thing that I had to learn how to do and be disciplined to follow the structure versus following my creativity”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Recommended Online Resources:
HARO, an acronym for Help A Reporter Out, is a publicity service created in 2008 by public relations expert Peter Shankman. Click the following link to listen to the Peter Shankman Podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“put that business plan together – and there is too great resources, Business Plan Pro if you are on a PC, and there is Live Plan. What I love about them is it is really a questionnaire that you fill out and tt the end of the questionnaire you have the start of the business plan. They have examples inside the business plan that you can cut and paste. But the plan gives you the roadmap to your success”…[Listen for More]
More About Susie Carder:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Not everyone is looking for an answer; often people just want to be heard.” Laurie Buchanan
Other Quotes From the Chat with Susie Carder:
- “eighty per cent of entrepreneur go out of business in the first five years. And out of those people that are left over twenty per cent most of them don’t take a pay check. The statistic was twelve per cent of them don’t take a pay check and may have to work inside the business for the business to run. And so, for me that is just unacceptable. And where that comes from is we just don’t know what we don’t know…there is not a lot of people teaching entrepreneurship, the intricacies of it, they are teaching pieces of it”
- “business is supposed to provide us with freedom, its supposed to provide us with a lifestyle that a job can’t, and so if that is not what is happening for you as an entrepreneur its time to shake up the apple cart and reinvent the business”
- “research what are the things that are consistent and what are the profit indicators”
- “I love finding the money, seeing the possibility and bringing it to fruition. That is the most exciting thing for me”
- “I got my degree from the school of asphalt and trial and errors”
- “I wish I could say I was really strategic about it but I was really ignorance on fire”
- “80% of the results come from 20% of the people”
- “putting the plan in place first, that’s the most important, is your business plan. And there is two types of plans, one is a working business plan and then one is a capital raising business plan and they are slightly different…”
- “I think each lesson is a learning curve in its own”
- “the reality is that as an entrepreneur you are an athlete and your body is the engine that keeps it all going and if your body breaks down you can’t do your business so we have to keep that engine at optimal performance”
- “if you weren’t causing the sales if you couldn’t do it who do you need that could do it and what do they need to say. And that shifts the way you build your business”
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