Dan Hill, Ph.D., is the president of Sensory Logic, Inc. and an internationally recognized expert on the role of emotions in business, politics, and sports. His innovative market research firm pioneered the use of facial coding and has done work for over half of the world’s top 100 B2C companies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Dan has anti role models
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the first one is that I was ahead of the curve. I did have the advantage that early in my career before I started sensory Logic I was in academia, I was in a consulting firm, I was in state government for a while, I was in a corporate position. Each of those give you a different vantage point in life… But I would say certainly the fact that I was ahead of the curve. Blink by Gladwell came out three years into my starting the company so I was an absolute pioneer. There is no one who devoted their business to the importance of EQ emotional intelligence that early and stuck with it ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Treasure Island Book by Robert Louis StevensonFavourite Quote:
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason” J. P. Morgan
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“work hard and be humble… The work hard is you have got to have some vision about the offer. And the humble thing goes back to your question earlier about changes going to come, how are you going to deal with it? Getting smug isn’t going to work, nobody buys smugness, they buy that you can help solve their problems. As my father said early on first of all never perjur yourself always be honest, the second thing is that your customers are going to tell you what business you are in – and they will, so listen. The more you talk in a business meeting the less well the business meeting is going”…[Listen for More]
More About Dan Hill:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Winston Churchill
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dan Hill:
- “I didn’t really have any doubts really quickly about the tool itself facial coding. The question was could you find people who were willing to be innovative. It’s great for the entrepreneur to be innovative but you need customers.”
- “It’s a shallow world and people move fast”
- “so competitions, awards, things that you can hope to hang onto as trophies I think are definitely worth something”
- “cost control it’s absolutely essential”
- “whatever you do when you start don’t buy the marble conference table just get a folding table. Keep it simple. The more you have embedded costs the more you are desperate to sell and you are just keeping the factory doors open but you are not making a profit, you are not getting the chance to focus on what is specialising away you want to take company”
- “the moment you don’t know what your business is about is the moment you are in trouble”
- “there is no certainty you constantly have to be looking around”
- “you have always got to cover your weaknesses”
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