John Knotts is a business coach and consultant with over 30 years of experience in military, non-profit, and commercial leadership and consulting. He has an extensive background in strategy, change, process, leadership, management, human capital, training and education, innovation, design, and communication.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I wanted to build it myself and that was particularly hard with the horse farm because we had to buy property, hundred acres is not cheap in the San Antonio Texas area, and then you got a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built up to be able to board and train horses and there is a lot of equipment involved in that. So having that brick and mortar verses on the coaching and consulting side of things is just basically selling my time and spending the time to build the repeatable methods and stuff like that so it’s not nearly as expensive to start something”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins
- Patrick Lencioni Books
Favourite Quote:
- “live for today plan for a hundred years” Anonymous
- “you are never taller the when you stoop to help a child” Anonymous
Recommended Online Resources:
- Social media
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Google LLC – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
- Amazon is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.
- San Antonio Business Calendar – San Antonio’s comprehensive Networking, Training Business Events Calendar
- Meetup – you can do more of what matters to you Or create your own group and meet people near you who share your interests
- Eventbrite brings people together through live experiences Discover events that match your passions, or create your own with online ticketing tools
- Facebook Events – Upcoming events near you and other things to do that fit your interest.
- Indeed helps millions of jobseekers and employers find the right fit every day.
- A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.
- WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.
- Bluehost is one of the largest website hosting providers and powers millions of websites
- Office 365 – Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive Share them with others and work together at the same time
- Mailchimp Email marketing, ads, landing pages, and CRM tools to grow your business on your terms. Get the word out with email, social ads, and make your life easier with automation. It’s easy, and you can start for free.
- ClickFunnels – Gives You Everything You Need To Market, Sell, Deliver Your Products Online. Without Having To Hire or Rely On A Tech Team!
- Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 100,000 courses and 24 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“look before you leap. Too many people start out in business without a good plan and they don’t even know that they need one. And I said it 9/10 business fail because they didn’t have a plan or the plan was poor, they didn’t use it. So my most important piece of advice is get a really good business plan that you use every day to drive your business”…[Listen for More]
More About John Knotts:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Are you a serial idea–starting person? The goal is to be an idea–shipping person.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with John Knotts:
- “you have got to plan”
- “have a no kidding strategic business plan that you use every day to grow your business towards your vision”
- “you are going to run into roadblocks. I use the rules of three and I say that within the first three months you are going to struggle when you open a new business and you have to have a level of ‘stick-to-it-iveness’ because it’s going to be really difficult and you going to be questioning: Did I make the right decision? Should I go back to my old job or try to find a new job with a company? And that security blanket is starting to get pulled out from underneath you. And the people that give up other people that really fail. And I say that if you are working really hard by your third month or really your fourth month you will start to see the benefit of your work and clients, the customers, the products will start getting sold and a lot of people they can’t last that long. And then at the three-year mark what will happen is that work will get out of control because suddenly you are at a tipping point and enough people have found out about what you do and it’s good and everybody wants it all at once and everything comes crashing in. And it’s so easy to just be like oh I’m overwhelmed I’m just going to give this up, I can’t do it anymore. And you just have to stick to it . That’s the biggest thing, the persistence factor is so important in being an entrepreneur “
- “you should always find your purpose and start with what you are doing”
- “a lot of the times we have the wrong people in our business and they are holding back change and transformation for our company”
- “we don’t live to plan we plan to live”
- “make sure that you are thinking about the future and then connecting everyday to what you do is really important”
- “when you are googling the trick is to go into the settings of the Google search and set it so that you are only going back a certain number of years, you are not getting everything. Because sometimes when you go on Google you will get something that is several years old and is actually not viable anymore because so much has changed”
- “my primary vision is I will leave nothing but success in my wake”
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