Kevin Zhang is a serial eCommerce entrepreneur and the CEO of Kreator eCommerce. Kevin achieved acclaim in the digital strategy and eCommerce community for generating $20M in sales in his first year as an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the biggest difficulty was kind of the mindset… Entrepreneurship was so different and in the beginning a lot of it was going over my mindset and getting over these psychological humps where you can work really, really hard and guess what the world doesn’t care. You can spend a week making that advertisement, editing that video that think is going to do really, really well and face ads and bam it just flops. And that’s very, very demotivating when your whole life your trained to expect guaranteed results”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How to Win Friends & Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
Also mentioned
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight
- Principles: Life and Work Book by Ray Dalio
Favourite Quote:
” I also feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure. For me, great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor” Ray Dalio
Recommended Online Resources:
- Upwork – You can find The Perfect Freelancers For Your Projects! It’s easy and affordable with secure Payments and will help you to increased your productivity
- Facebook Groups – A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.
- Shopify – All-In-One Commerce Solution – Ecommerce Software And Point Of Sale. Get more than just an ecommerce solution Sell anywhere, to anyone, with Shopify’s ecommerce platform and point of sale features
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“just think about all of the resources that you have at your disposal right now compared to the people that have done it 10, 15, 20 years ago. And think about how much easier it is, how many less barriers to entry that there is now compared to the people that you look up to had to do it back way in the heyday. They literally had to innovate so much just to get started. There is so many leaner ways to do entrepreneurship that’s accessible now that there really is just no excuse for not doing it”…[Listen for More]
More About Kevin Zhang:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” Oprah Winfrey
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kevin Zhang:
- “I like people that dream incredible, incredible dreams that almost seem impossible and pursue them… I people that pursue really outlandish things… Anyone who pursues something that everyone else thinks is crazy and is able to execute and make moves in that direction earns my respect tremendously… They dream impossible dreams and sometimes they do happen to come true when you fight for them ”
- “you learn those lessons because you fail”
- “I think all of the secrets to success aren’t even secrets. It just depends on the type of person that wants to implement them. But I think a big thing is I believe that from the bottom of my heart, I believe that winning is not a result, it’s a mentality. Winners are types of people and losers are types of people, they are not results”
- “every business is a people driven business”
- “obviously I success more than I fail but I would rather fail a thousand times and have no success than live a life of just kind of status quo, doing what I’m told and not taking any risks or pursuing any kind of big dreams that everyone says is unimaginable”
- “regardless of what you are doing if you are thinking about scaling and growing faster building a personal brand is very important. Or at least having someone on your team that has that personal brand because it attracts a lot more business opportunities and moves”
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