Harry Campbell is the founder of The Rideshare Guy, a blog and podcast for rideshare drivers. Despite the ‘unique’ niche, he is getting vertally 1 million page views a month across his websites and Youtube channel and has 75,000 e-mail subscribers.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“really just figuring out what could potentially be successful… So I was sort of thinking to myself okay I’ve got this crummy little personal finance site but here are personal finance sites out there that most people haven’t even heard of that are selling for millions of dollars. And and I guess I just couldn’t see the path from getting from where I was to where they were. I knew it was possible, I just wasn’t seeing that path ” (4 Lines minimum) …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
How to Win Friends and Influence People Books by Dale CarnegieFavourite Quote:
“life is all about prioritisation”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Pat Flynn – is an American entrepreneur, blogger and podcaster best known for his blog and podcast Smart Passive Income, where he conducts income experiments and shares the results.
- Asana – Easily organize and plan workflows, projects, and more, so you can keep your team s work on schedule
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be open to lots of opportunities because I think especially when you are first getting started out if everything that you are doing has a calculated reason then you may not find kind of what you are looking for. The path to entrepreneurship, there aren’t many people who wake up and say oh I’m going to go and start a blog about Uber and Lift Driver because five years ago the industry didn’t even exist. So I think the ultimate goal for a lot of entrepreneurs is unknown and in order to get there you just have to try a lot of stuff and be open to a lot of opportunities…” …[Listen for More]
More About Harry Campbell:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” Larry Page, co-founder of Google
Other Quotes From the Chat with Harry Campbell:
- “what I enjoy most is really just trying new things”
- “establish a lot of relationships with people who are already successful”
- “you have to be passionate or at a minimum excited about the topic or industry or whatever it is that you are doing”
- “there is a million things to do whether it’s in your personal or business life. And it doesn’t matter if you are an entrepreneur or a $100 billion company there is always a million things to do. And prioritising the things that matter most to you I think is what’s most important. I think a lot of people often prioritise things that are important to others or other people tell them what’s important”
- “the systems that you build allow you to do more projects”
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