Chris Parker is the founder of WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. In January 2000, WhatIsMyIPAddress.com was launched as a solution to a simple problem, finding his office IP address. Rather than panicking when he was laid off in 2014, Chris seized the opportunity and devoted himself full-time to his website, which now attracts over 6,000,000 visitors monthly.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“was to realise that I actually had a business and not a hobby. It took a bit of a mind shift from hey this is fun and this is just something I’m doing and la-di-da, if it works it works, and if it doesn’t it doesn’t, to oh this is a business venture, this is paying my bills, I need to pay attention, I need to actually think about this differently and think about it as a business not as a hobby. So that was a pivotable mind shift for me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity by David Allen
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow
Favourite Quote:
“If you are the smartest person in the room you are in the wrong room”
Recommended Online Resources:
- OnceHub – Meeting and appointment scheduling software. Meeting and appointment scheduling software Schedule meetings without the back and forth
- Trello – Infinitely flexible Incredibly easy to use Great mobile apps. It’s free Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details
- Things is the award-winning personal task manager that helps you achieve your goals.
- Marketing Speak – A Podcast about Online Marketing, Ecommerce, SEO, Analytics, Facebook Advertising, PPC, and more
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“doing things that challenge you, that make you uncomfortable… Building a network of friends and people you know that our entrepreneurs. Some that are further along the new and some that are just starting out but most importantly people that have a very different perspective than you that are fundamentally different people than you. The geeks like to hangout with the geeks and the jocks like to hangout with the jocks. I think it is important as entrepreneurs is to have people that will challenge the way we look at things, challenge the way that we think and that helps us to think about things from more perspectives and see holes that we wouldn’t normally see in our business ”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Parker:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Parker:
- “building a business that you can extricate yourself from it that it doesn’t rely on you and that allows you to easily be able to sell it down the road”
- “thinking about how to replace myself. Really trying to learn how to work smarter, work less, delegate outcomes, delegate responsibilities earlier on so that I can have that time to work on my core competences and work on growing the business not actually doing the business”
- “what are the things that you want to be able to do”
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