Nick Wolny is a writer and messaging strategist helping entrepreneurs write content faster than ever before. He’s given over 40 live TV interviews commenting on marketing and technology, writes articles for Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and Social Media Examiner, and has been featured with Reader’s Digest, Mens’ Health, VICE, the Houston Chronicle, and USA Today.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“being someone who focuses a lot on writing, written content especially I grappled with finding my voice when it came to writing. I was so focused… We were just talking earlier about Symphony about orchestra. When you are in music school you are training to play in an orchestra and so you are training to follow the guy with the stick. Whatever the guy with the stick says, whatever he does that is business as usual. So strangely when it came time to fully have my own voice and my own interpretation, I grappled with that for a little while. I kept trying to write what I thought other people wanted me or I kept trying to write what I felt would be most likely to go viral or what would appeal to the most people. And what we know you can’t be everything to everyone. So, by being that generalist it didn’t really go anywhere”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Book by Cal NewportFavourite Quote:
” Believe you can and you’re halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt
Recommended Online Resources:
- BombBomb – Simple videos get you face to face with more people more often Easily record and send video email from Gmail, mobile, or web
Also mentioned:
- Cal Newport: Why you should quit social media – TED Talks
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“launch often then keep tuning into your core audience… Get on the phone with people in your audience. If you have got a new subscriber ask them if they will get on the phone with you for 10 or 15 minutes and you could just ask them some questions about what they are working on and you will discover that that market research process goes so much faster. And you are also going to discover that there are always cool new products, programs and services to create using your existing expertise and your existing knowledge that are going to help you grow your business in the long run”…[Listen for More]
More About Nick Wolny:
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” Robert Kiyosaki
Other Quotes From the Chat with Nick Wolny:
- “I wish I would have been faster with prospecting. And it came from a mindset that I had. I would tell myself that I was shy, I would tell myself that I was an introvert and that I was weak at sales, that sales were not my thing, that I like to be a soft salesperson. And I wish that I had taken that building your muscles mentality that I talked about earlier around content creation and writing and had applied that to sales and to sales prospecting”
- “my mentor in music school he gave me this piece of advice that has stuck with me through many years. He said to me ‘go by sound not by feel’ and it took me a moment… Wait what I’m in music school, I’m here to spill my feelings all over the stage. But he’s like no no, no. To play at the professional level you cannot let your feelings run the show you need to be really objective and you need to go off of a sound that is coming out of the bowel of the instrument and what is the quality of that sound, you need to be really objective with that and you need to make adjustments based on how you sound that day not how you feel that day… That always stuck with me that approach to play at that very highest level like those top coaches, top performers, Olympic athletes, all of these different people they go by output, they go by sound not by feel. So for me unless I got an extreme bad feeling about something I just go back to the numbers and I just go back to the objective data that I have in front of me to work with and I like to make my decisions off of that so that I know I am going by sound and not going by feel”
- “as we age, we are more more resistant to trying new things and looking like an idiot while doing it… I think that willingness to be a beginner, that willingness to try out new things and not obsess and worry about how everything looks I think that is a big-time secret to success”
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