Tony Banta helps service providers activate the transformation within their clients. He believes that any client business can deliver amazing client success on scale.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Tony’s Parents,
- Peter Senge
- Stephen Covey
- Peter Drucker
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the marketing and client acquisition and finding that message market fit is a struggle, and that has been a struggle. And it’s one that I find myself being grateful for every client that I have cause I know those days were I knew Could help people but I didn’t know how to find them or get them on a sales call. And so that sort of adds to my gratitude for the clients that I get to work with and help today”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business Book by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winter
- Brené Brown Books
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené Brown
- What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? Selected Writing 2012-2016 Book by Seth Godin
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Book by Peter M. Senge
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
Favourite Quote:
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker
Recommended Online Resources:
- Seth Godin author of Seth s blog Discover his free videos, his seminars and workshops and his books
- News Feed Eradicator for Facebook – Find yourself spending too much time on Facebook? Eradicate distractions by replacing your entire news feed with an inspiring quote.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“never stop looking for the opportunity. I know that a lot of people say just do it or just take action and certainly that’s true, we all need to remind ourselves of that. Nothing good comes about taking action but I think that if we let go of ego and the things that we want to be true and we zoom out to look at the opportunity or even zoom in to look at the opportunity. Zoom out to look at the broader opportunity in the market that we may be missing… but also just zooming in, zooming into our clients, zooming into what is still frustrating for them, zooming into how are they struggling in their journey of working with us. We can find a lot of opportunity so that we can go deeper, we can create more value. And when we create more value we can either charge more or more money naturally flows to us… never stop hunting for value”…[Listen for More]
More About Tony Banta:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” Kyle Bragger, founder of Forrst
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tony Banta:
- “I am a recovering perfectionist”
- “innovation never stops”
- “I find the best thing is to find people in the market that need help and just serve them. And then with eyes wide open you can build the business out of those early results”
- “the people who win in the marketplace are the ones who are quickest to accept the way that things are and let go of the way they wish they would be… see things for the way they are and take advantage of those opportunities because there are so many more than you even realise”
- “the idea isn’t worth anything it is the implementation”
- “as we implement, we get data”
- “you will always find success if you let go of ego enough that you are willing to change and you just keep moving”
- “the times that I am successful the Winds are so much greater than the losses in the times when I have been wrong”
- “we first have to ask the question are we really being effective and if we are really creating the impact we intend to with the work that we are doing. Because once we are getting that desired result then we can make it efficient, we can’t do that in reverse”
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