Jason Resnick helps developers and designers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build predictable revenue. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping online businesses increase sales and decrease the time to first purchase through conversion and behavioral strategy, with personalization, email, and marketing campaigns.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to get out of my own way. And it’s still something I am still learning. Before I started my own business… I was very young when I knew what I wanted to do at least as far as my life goes… I kind of had to feel my way through certain aspects of my own behaviour, my own thoughts, how I saw things. And looking back on it today I had to become my own therapist if you will. Like I had to ask myself questions and say hey what are you doing or challenge myself in certain ways”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever Book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier HanssonFavourite Quote:
“Charge what you’re worth and don’t apologize” Chris Ducker
Recommended Online Resources:
- Smart Passive Income – Learn how to build an online business using smart passive income. Find Pat’s podcasts, tutorials, videos, and other how to articles on growing your business
- Ask Pat – The AskPat Podcast 2.0 from Pat Flynn on Smart Passive Income
- Youpreneur – How to Build, Market and Monetize Your Personal Brand!
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“really understand your why and put it front and centre. And when I say put it front and centre… if you need a sticky note to put it on your monitor go ahead and do so. Because if you understand your why then every decision that you make will be towards that why. You won’t deviate from it… Understand where your why is on why you started the business in the first place because ultimately it wasn’t because you wanted to work more ”…[Listen for More]
More About Jason Resnick:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jason Resnick:
- “be perceptive and pay attention to the things around you, how things sell, whether that’s product or service, a person, those kinds of things. Be perceptive of the things that are going on around you and see if you could just take cues, see what patterns you have… Just being perceptive of the surroundings that you are in allows you to pick up allows you to then pick up those things”
- “pricing is a huge thing in business. One you need to understand what your price is, cost, profits, all of those. You have to understand exactly what that is but you also want to anchor it to the ROI of what you are doing for your solution to your clients. Don’t compare yourself to somebody else that’s a recipe for a raise to the bottom. So even if you are charging hourly charge hourly based on what you are doing for your customer. While client a client be could be the exact same thing if what you are doing is drastically different from an importance and ROI perspective from your client charge accordingly. That’s going to serve you so much better in the longer…”
- “when you run a business you have to come with this idea of being empathetic in one hand and humble in the other. And come from this idea of servitude towards your clients and customers. And if you do that your business will grow, your customers are going to love you and you will be more likely to succeed then”
- “each and every single day I try to be empathetic, I try to have a lot of gratitude for where I am at”
- “when you under charge you are often looking at your competitors you are not looking at what you bring to the table to your customer”
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