John Vuong is the owner and founder of Local SEO Search. He helps small and medium-sized businesses rank on Google and dominate their local market. John puts a strong emphasis on relationships and treats his client’s like family, wanting to not only help them rank but to help their business grow and succeed.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Tony Robbins – the world’s top life and business strategist
- Brian Tracy
- Jack Canfield
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“early days I was spending 16, 18 hour days to learn what I know today and make tons of mistakes and not make money for the first couple of years. But the challenge was all these things I had to encounter it was worth it in the end because what I see now is all those things that really was difficult I had to endure to become who I am today. And without learning it first hand is very hard to explain what it is, you just have to be in it yourself to understand what every single entrepreneur has to go through. And so you can really appreciate and respect all entrepreneurs in what they had to go through themselves ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Brian Tracy Books
- Anthony Robbins Books
- Habits Books
- Lifespan Books
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) Book by Verne Harnish
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You Book by John Warrillow
Also mentioned
- Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success Book by Adam Grant
Favourite Quote:
“practice makes perfect but it doesn’t make new” Adam Grant
Recommended Online Resources:
- Books
- Blogs
- Podcasts
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
- Search Engine Journal is dedicated to producing the latest search news, the best guides and how tos for the SEO and marketer community
- Search Engine Land – News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- 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.
- SEMrush is a software as a service company based in Boston that sells online visibility and marketing analytics software subscriptions. It was founded by Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitry Melnikov as a SEO tool and a browser extension before adopting the SaaS model.
- 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:
“don’t give up. I know there is a very high failure rate in terms of people that give it X amount of time – six months, three months, one year, two years… There’s things that you have to in terms of the benchmark look back at how do people survive if they didn’t have what you have in terms of the ability to make it successful. So benchmark yourself. Because if you understand what differences you have in terms of an entrepreneur skill set you are way more valuable than someone that’s an employee because your mindset is completely different. So don’t give up because there are resources, there are people, there is free tools out there, there is great people that that even can provide great valuable insight that is willing to help you because the most successful people out there in the world are the most helpful and the friendliest people out there if you reach out and you ask questions ”…[Listen for More]
More About John Vuong:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” Jeff Bezos
Other Quotes From the Chat with John Vuong:
- “early days I feel as if I had a mentor or a coach or someone that can really help me elevate and really push me in the right direction it would have helped my stress levels, sleep way better and become way more successful faster and just be a support system”
- “there are a lot of associations out there, a lot of people out there that want to support entrepreneurs and want them to succeed because you are taking on this risk and they want to help you shortcut. there is a lot of mentors and coaches as well. Early days I never even thought about that. I was more concerned about making sure that this company was sustainable and I thought I had to do everything myself. And even to this day I don’t have a mental ”
- “it’s a lonely journey as an entrepreneur”
- “the drive, the passion, I think you really have to understand what motivates you. If it’s just for money I think that’s the wrong motivation. The secret to success is always willing to want to get better. As an entrepreneur you are never going to be happy with just okay or being average. Any entrepreneur feels like they can be the best person or the best business based on all of the competitors and what differentiates themselves”
- “if you become more of a giver than a taker you are going to do well in life not just in business but also in your personal endeavours as well”
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