Todays guest is Tony Winyard who has worked around the world as a club DJ for 12 years before returning to the UK as a wedding DJ. The next 15 years he raised his fee to 15 times what it had been. Tony is going to give tips on how you can do the same for your clients. Please welcome Tony Winyard.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None – take pieces from many different people
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I’ve never been good at admin… I detest doing admin. And I seemed to be working all hours of the day trying to get more bookings, trying to get different venues maybe to have me as may be their resident DJ or whatever it was”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
- Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius
Favourite Quote:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Recommended Online Resources:
The Connection HUB – group for SPEAKERS, AUTHORS & COACHES to connect & share resources so you can build a business ON YOUR TERMS.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“never stop learning… you need to apply the learning. Because too often we go to seminars, to workshops and so on and are taking this great information and then we don’t do anything with it. There is a quote by Epictetus ’learning that doesn’t lead to action is useless’. So it’s really about when you hear a great speaker or you attend a great workshop you have got to apply that knowledge”…[Listen for More]
More About Tony Winyard:
- The Value Catalyst
- Tony Winyard
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” Jonathan Sacks, British author and politician
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tony Winyard:
- “it’s helpful if you can get an understanding of what you are good at… and what you are not good at. So, if you’re not good at design, you’re not good admin, you’re not good at accounts. So those things really bug you and you just don’t want to do them. Even though you may be struggling financially if you can give those jobs to someone else who can do them it will free you up and free your creative mind much more to work on the things you like doing and you will excel much faster and you will start making money quicker as well”
- “if I had been more into reading some of the… there’s so many amazing books around that can help you… I think that would have made a big difference”
- “be comfortable, really comfortable in your expertise, in the skills that you have, the knowledge that you have. And realising that and being confident that people value what it is that you have and you can help people achieve whatever it is that they want, whether that be status or happiness or whatever service it is you are delivering for them”
- “you really need to pass on the things that you’re not good at and you don’t enjoy doing to other people who are good at doing those things and do enjoy doing them”
- “working for yourself is the best thing you can do because you don’t have someone sort of standing over you telling you what to do and telling you how much you can earn. You are in charge of what you can earn. So, there is no greater feeling”
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