Stacey Brown Randall is a three-time entrepreneur, author of Generating Business Referrals…Without Asking, and host of the Roadmap To Grow Your Business podcast. She received her Master’s in Organizational Communication and is married with three kids, 10-year-old son, 8-year-old daughter and she and her husband are raising their 11-year-old nephew.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Stacey’s Father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“one of the things I had to overcome I was starting my first business was just figuring out how to position myself in the marketplace. And figure out when people say what do you do? How in the world did I answer that in a way that would want them to keep talking to me?… I think what people offer in the very beginning as they get good at offering it sometimes their packages and services things change. But figuring out that early piece of what are you attempting to sell and then what are you going to say to be able to sell it is so important to staying in the game”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done Book by Jon AcuffFavourite Quote:
“Have you been brave today?”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“to understand fundamentally that if you think you can you can and if you think you can’t you can’t… And so I think that that mindset gets talked about so much from an entrepreneurs perspective because we think truly comes out into our actions. What we think becomes what we believe, and what we believe factors into how we act and how we behave and our attitude to things. And so if you want to do it you have got to have some belief. You can be scared, you can have some concerns, but if you want to do it you had better think that you can or you had at least better know that you are capable of figuring it out because there is no easy button in being an entrepreneur, and it is going to be hard, and it’s going to give you lots of joy and lots of freedom and lots of fun but it is going to come with his own mixed bag of a lot of stress and strain and you have to be willing to overcome the mindset that will hold you back, and the people that will hold you back when they don’t understand what you are doing. Because I would say there is nothing better in this world and being an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” Sara Blakely, founder of SPANX
Other Quotes From the Chat with Stacey Brown Randall:
- “early on I think the mistakes that I made with the first business was I didn’t figure out the business development piece. I didn’t figure out how my going to bring in prospects and leads in a consistent way to fill the pipeline. And that ultimately led to my demise.”
- “First of all you need to figure out what type of business you want to start”
- “my ability to learn from my first business failure shortened the learning curve a lot with the second business”
- “it is that ability to know where you are going but being willing to know that the picture in your mind you have of exactly how you are going to get there properly won’t play out the way you expect it to. And in some cases we get to throwaway the picture to be able to get to where we ultimately want to go”
- “there is something to be said for not giving up and also knowing when. When you have dug your wealth deep enough and there is no water and it is time to move on. I think that those are just some things that you learn and can in turn start to trust yourself better with those decisions over time”
- “change can be annoying but sometimes that change is the best thing for you and you get to dig in and you got to be willing to start the change”
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