Andy Latimer is the CEO/Founder of the converged creative agency Bluewater Media and he is a director/producer with 20+ years of experience in the TV and film industry. Latimer’s storytelling ability crosses genres and categories delivering clients results in sales through D2C response. Bluewater is an expert in digital, social media and influencer marketplace.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Andy’s Brother
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when we first started the business remember I have just been fired from a job, that’s the first challenge. The first challenge is what are we going to do to eat. The previous company did not honour any contracts or any severance is or anything so we were one month from having a baby and staring at the great abyss of all my goodness what are we going to do so the first difficulty we had to overcome was how are we going to make milk money, how are we going to make the money to feed the baby and that was a great challenge. And so we started working out of the house”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives Book by Dan MillmanFavourite Quote:
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin
Recommended Online Resources:
AMZ Scout Accurate Amazon Product Finder & Research Tool. Full info about demand and competitors Trusted by 120,000 Amazon sellers Click to learn more
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“there is going to be roadblocks along the way, there is going to be walls that you are going to hit. Don’t stop there is always a way to go over it, under it, around it or through it. Don’t let limitations stop you, don’t let limitations stop you especially. You are going to hear from person after person after person you can’t, what makes you think you can, why do you think that’s achievable. These are all points of people who are trying to stop your growth and feed you with negativity. Don’t accept the negative, understand that there is always a way, it might not be the easiest way but there is always a way to achieve your goals”…[Listen for More]
More About Andy Latimer:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Roy L. Smith “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Andy Latimer:
- “suck it up and drive on. Stop thinking about the problems that you have dealt with and start thinking about what you are going to do now”
- “you can achieve anything in the world if you just set your mind to it”
- “this idea of surrounding yourself with good people is important because when you try to do something and it’s one hand, if it’s one person or you and your wife that are dragging this thing along trying to drive, drive, drive there is only so much time that you can put in stop so I think the mistake that a lot of people make is they don’t bring in good reliable people. Either they picked the wrong partners or just financial partners who aren’t really engaged all the get the wrong partners that aren’t aligned with where the vision companies going”
- “those early steps are educate yourself, read a lot, study a lot, listen a lot. Go meet with and talk with business owners, take them to lunch, ask them questions about how they got started, listen to shows like yours, The Entrepreneur Way so that you can figure out what path is”
- “I think a lot of people that we’ve come across on that I’ve come across in my lifetime want success, they want to have success, they just don’t necessarily want to work to have that success. They wanted to come in a way that’s easy. Success is not easy; success is hard and it never ever gets easy. The more successful you become and the harder it gets. So, I think it’s just a matter of you have to have the work ethic to try and get there and you have to have the energy and determination to try to get there. And if you do and you stay true to it and you believe and sometimes that means waking up at five in the morning and working on something for four hours before anyone else does. Sometimes that means working four hours later than anybody else does or five or six or 10 hours later than anybody else. Sometimes it means putting more effort in even though you are not making the money per hour to get it. It’s about building something and staying true to what you are building I think is the real secret to success”
- “the one thing I would do my business venue that I could not fail. I would become my own client”
- “I think the basic business development is the hardest thing most people miss on in growing the business”
- “along the way there are many successes and there are many failures. It’s in the successes and failures where your growth and your life is lived. So, enjoy the road.”
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