Ryan Dohrn is an Emmy winner and was recognized by Forbes with the “Best of the Best” award for his business strategies. Ryan’s focus is sales, leadership and team performance. His passion for sales and marketing has given him the unique opportunity to touch half a billion dollars in revenue for companies in 7 countries.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the one thing that I did not really anticipate was going to be problems with scale. I never built from the beginning scalable enterprises I always built things just to make me money. And while at face value there is something to be said about that the difficulties I ran into before was just not understanding what scale actually meant… The other thing is I am a classic overachiever, I am one of those people that I don’t delegate well, I would rather do it myself, I was felt like it was faster to do it myself. So because of that I couldn’t scale the business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Get in The Game Book by Kevin Harrington and Loral Langemeier and Elliot Grossbard
- The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company Book by Jack Stack
Favourite Quote:
“Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way” General George S. Patton
Recommended Online Resources:
- Hunter is the leading solution to find and verify professional email addresses. Start using Hunter and connect with the people that matter for your business
- Loom – Free Screen & Video Recording Software. Easy and free screen recorder for Mac, Windows, and Chromebooks Record your camera and screen with audio directly from your Chrome browser and share the video with your team, friends, and family
- Crystal – The app that tells you anyone’s personality. Take a free personality test or use AI to see anyone s personality Discover your DISC, Myers Briggs, Enneagram, motivations, values, and more
- Also mentioned
- SpyFu – Competitor Keyword Research Tools for AdWords PPC & SEO. Search for any competitor, download their keywords. It’s that simple. Learn competitors PPC SEO tricks and avoid their mistakes
- SEO Moz – SEO Software, Tools & Resources for Smarter Marketing. Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds tools that make SEO, inbound marketing, link building, and content marketing easy.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you are going to start a business that is going to be successful and you start it just to make money you are starting it for the wrong reason. If you start a business surrounded around something you are passionate about because you are going to have to put a lot of hours into it. If you are passionate about it it’s okay that you are going to have to spend a lot of hours around it because you are so unbelievably passionate about it the time will fly because you are having so much fun really doing what you are passionate about”…[Listen for More]
More About Ryan Dohrn:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ryan Dohrn:
- “if I had focused on search an optimisation, I would have not started half the businesses I started because everything revolves around Google”
- “paying attention is one of the biggest things that people do not do”
- “dedicating time to personal research and development. Every single week Friday afternoons anywhere between two and four o’clock rather than grab a cocktail which is how I feel at the end of some weeks I spent time with personal research and development”
- “I have mentors but I also have a coach”
- “you are either going to be leader you are going to be a follower and if you can’t choose then watch out because I’m going to come barrelling between the two of you and break something to get something done”
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