Mike Macedonio is a New York Times Best Selling author, speaker and entrepreneur. Mike is the Managing Partner of Referral Institute. He has built his company from a small training and consulting company to a franchised organization with over 60 locations in 20 countries.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Dr. Ivan Misner : You can Listen to Ivan’s podcast episode here
Dr. Tony Alessandra
Stewart Emery
Michael E. Gerber
When business started difficulties overcame:
Well there was quite a few. Why don’t we start with not knowing what I was doing? So I think I had a lot of the same challenges most people have:There is a lack of structure in the business; There is a lack of I haven’t made the mistakes yet; Not knowing what to do; not knowing where to go next; not having business; wearing way too many hats. And I think those were all great lessons for me along the way, starting with wearing way too many hats…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Screw Business As Usual Book by Richard BransonFavourite Quote:
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“My best advice to other entrepreneurs is you are doing this because of a passion. Live within that passion and at the same time if you are finding that it is difficult or hard it doesn’t need to be. Go our there and seek the experts that can help you with in whatever specific areas are getting hard. Whether it is business development or scalablilty or whatever part of the business it is”…[Listen for More]
More About Mike Macedonio:
mikem (@) referralinstitute.com
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?” Charles Eames
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