Connie Chi is a serial entrepreneur, author, and Ted X speaker. She is the founder of The Chi Group an award-winning marketing and branding agency humanizing lifestyle brands and also the co-founder of Cutie Con, an expo featuring all things cute fashion, tech, media, books, film, beauty and more.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“how do I get my first client or how do I even get clients. It’s a headache, in a way it’s a good headache that we are constantly searching for. That was one of the biggest challenges for me was how do I go about getting clients. And I had tried it in three different businesses and kept failing and failing and failing. And finally I managed to succeed when I started the agency”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life Book by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
- Life’s Golden Ticket: An Inspriational Novel Book by Brendon Burchard
Favourite Quote:
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
Recommended Online Resources:
- Instagram A simple, fun creative way to capture, edit share photos, videos messages with friend’s family
- Crunchbase is the leading destination for company insights from early stage start-ups to the Fortune 1000. Get insights into your competition. Uncover start-up trends, get company funding data. Find new prospects, beat competitors and quotas
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“have the courage to live outside of the box because it is outside the box that magic happens. If you are so worried about as an entrepreneur oh I have to say the right things, I have to wear the right clothes, I have to do the right things you are going to be for ever defined by someone else’s rules. As an entrepreneur you want to define the rules and live life on your terms. So get out of the box, get out of the box, have the courage to do that”…[Listen for More]
More About Connie Chi:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” Sam Levenson, American humorist
Other Quotes From the Chat with Connie Chi:
- “when you love what you do you make the time for it no matter where you are. If you are travelling you find a way.”
- “I believe that brands should display a sort of personality because at the end of the day customers are human so they need to create that connection. In order to do that it is through experiences because we as people we experience things and from the experience there is an emotion attached to it, there is a memory attached to it”
- “I think every entrepreneur has doubts at some point and of course I did”
- “I think that success is experiencing ourselves outside of ourselves”
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