Jared James is licensed CPA with international business experience who honed his skills with a Big 4 public accounting firm and top financial banking institution doing mergers & acquisitions. More recently he has turned his sights on helping the millions of Americans that play the lottery each year.
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest one for me was my wife… I’ve always had entrepreneurial kind of burning inkling to do it and my wife is very risk adverse. And I would turn to her and say hey I want to go out and do this and she would be very much I don’t understand this and why on earth would you want to walk away from a good paying job and just start over from scratch? That doesn’t make sense. For me the biggest difficulty was convincing her that we have prepared for this moment as I used to say it, we have been savers our whole life, we have prepared for the moment and an opportunity like this”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride Book by Darren HardyFavourite Quote:
“you have got to run your own race. Don’t focus on those other runners” Gary Williams – Gerald’s high school track coach
Recommended Online Resources:
- 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.
- LeadLeaper LinkedIn Email Finder – LeadLeaper – finds emails for LinkedIn profiles and from LinkedIn search results without appearing suspicious to LinkedIn
- 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
Also mentioned
- Neil Patel – Advanced the Simple Process That Works to Turn Ice Cold Prospects into Happy Customers with Automated Conversion Funnels Sequences
- ahrefs – SEO Tools & Resources to Grow Your Search Traffic. Audit your website, explore competitors, research keywords backlinks all in one place. Powered by seriously big data, trusted by top SEOs.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you really have to plan. Plan for how you are going to bring the traffic to your site… and really having a sustainable plan… Plan out what your full strategy looks like… As you are waiting for those customers really plan on a runway. I think a lot of people underestimate how quickly customers come in the door… Some businesses are lucky and they come right out of the gate, other ones it may take a month, two, three, six, whatever it is. If you are not prepared for that that’s when a lot of companies may fail”…[Listen for More]
More About Jared James:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jared James:
- “our MVP took over a year to be deployed and I think we could really of have had that out of the door a lot faster for a lot cheaper and we could probably be further along from that… I’ve learned so much on my total journey specifically in the technologies as far as what to look for and what to do”
- “I think you have to persevere. You are going to encounter conflict; you are going to encounter so many challenges in the entrepreneurial journey and you have to keep going. You have to have a clear path for that”
- “there is going to be days when you are just crushed and you have got to shake it off and the next day is a new day and get back up and get back at it”
- “if you are confident your solution, your product, your business is going to help people or is going to provide a service and it’s worth people paying for it then you have got to keep going after it”
- “one of the things that I struggled with is an entrepreneur early on was loneliness. I really felt like I was in Ireland by myself. You go from a corporate environment where I could call someone in legal, tax, whatever I needed I was surrounded by a team, I always had a team with me. And then I was suddenly moved entrepreneurship… Lotto edge was a bootstrapped company so we started off just me before I was able to bring on contractors. So, I felt very lonely”
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