Kirk Mote is the founder of Rescue Site which specializes in developing AED programs for homes, businesses, and community groups across the nation. Kirk uses the only AED with Real CPR Help® and the world’s #1 AED program management solution. Kirk’s mission is Target Zero.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“a major global corporation recognised us and sent us in a cease-and-desist letter… Instead of getting all worked up about it I was just like congratulations you did an awesome job. And obviously the second thing I did was got on the phone and got a lawyer to help me navigate this process which I had never done before… We did it really quickly and we worked really fast”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- SELL OR BE SOLD: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life Book by Grant Cardone
Also mentioned:
- The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Book by Grant Cardone
Favourite Quote:
” To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” Sir Winston Churchill
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- 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.
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“get big because 64 percent of all businesses in the US breakeven or lose money… And another statistic is 68 percent of them have no employees. These numbers are almost identical. So you need to start building your team. You need to get big”…[Listen for More]
More About Kirk Mote:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kirk Mote:
- “people on the whole are more reactive than proactive”
- “I don’t just follow one specific person. I take the gold nuggets from every single one of these and then of compiler into my own and mix them with my own style. That’s kind of who I am, a little bit of everything around me ”
- “you need to invest in yourself because even if one venture fails you still have the knowledge to rebuild quicker”
- “never spend money before you get it”
- “if you can’t write it off don’t buy it”
- “stabilise and grow your first follow before adding a second”
- “commitment follows time and money. So, without time and money there is no commitment”
- “attention equals income”
- “when I think about making decisions, I filter it through that mission statement, that definiteness of purpose… Everything that we do is very strategic”
- “if you do not know exactly who you are, what you are doing and why you are doing it then you are going to be floundering”
- “when you don’t have that definiteness of purpose then you have a result and that result is not one you want to mimic”
- “Everything in life can and should be treated as a sale”
- “knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite of success of any kind”
- “are you sold on you and your vision and brand or are you being sold on someone else’s”
- “are you building your brand or business or are you helping someone else build theirs”
- “money follows attention.”
- “Your biggest problem is getting out of obscurity. People don’t even know you are doing what you are doing. You need to blow up your brand in order to blow up your business. And you do that by advertising and marketing ”
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