Christopher Barrow and Darcy Barrow, who are married, founded Foundation Homes International in 2010. Experienced property managers, they have created a business that now manages more than $115MM (US) of high-end, single-family, long-term residential property in a suburb across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Tony Robbins
- Tim Ferris
- Richard Branson
- Gary J White – Wake up Warriors
- Anthony Davenport
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we didn’t know what we didn’t know…what we did not realise was how much people managing we would have to learn how to do. How to manage a team, how to motivate a team, and how to teach people to deliver our product in the same way we did and the same way that our client’s expect. I think we really just greatly underestimated the amount our time and our effort that that would take. If you look at the way we lead our company in the first few years and the way we lead it now it is night and day, you wouldn’t even recognise the company as the same… was also a lot of things inside of our company, the compliance matters, things that we just didn’t understand with running a company… we didn’t come from a business background we just did it”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Profit First: A Simple System to Transform Any Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz
- MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss - Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Challenger Sale: How To Take Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Favourite Quote:
“Progress equals happiness.” Tony Robbins
Recommended Online Resources:
- Fiverr – Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance services. Founded in 2010, the company is based in Tel Aviv, and provides a platform for freelancers to offer services to customers worldwide. As of 2012, over three million services were listed on Fiverr.
- Wufoo – Wufoo’s HTML form builder helps you create online web forms. Their web form creator can power your contact forms, online surveys, and event registrations.
- JotForm – If you need online forms for generating leads, distributing surveys, collecting payments and more, JotForm is for you
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“work harder, work smarter, but also just do the work. There is no successful person that I have ever met that has been able to just hack working hard. You have to do it. You have to put in those insane hours at first, your family is going to hate you for a while but you have to go all in. Don’t expect to do it all. Do communicate to your friends what they can expect from you because you are going to miss parties, you are going to miss birthdays, you are going to miss events but you have to do that. Do put a deadline on it because there is a fine line between throwing down hours for your brand-new business to make it work and then just becoming a workaholic”…[Listen for More]
More About Christopher Barrow and Darcy Barrow:
Foundation Homes International
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The best questions attract the best answers!” Israelmore Ayivor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Christopher Barrow and Darcy Barrow:
- “don’t reinvent the wheel. Find a mentor in your field or a coach, joint trade associations, go to professional meetings that are associated with your business”
- “I went to a Tony Robbins event and I made the decision right after that to get a coach. And I got one in our business, we were already on a good path but this accelerated process; someone who had been in the business who had been doing it the right way , who had been really crushing it in their market… they really helped us redefine how we were working”
- “so Christopher and I now have multiple coaches in any given time for us personally, professionally, and we hired somebody for our team as well. Like I said we didn’t have that in the beginning. We ever started another company in another industry that would absolutely be my first move”
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