Chris Thomas grew up in the mountains of Georgia and started this career in Atlanta working for Fortune 100 companies. He spent 20 years helping big businesses change the way they think about marketing their products and services. Along the way, he saw too many businesses who were stuck trying to make outdated marketing strategies work. He wanted to provide that down home feel with a small but mighty team that offers a full service marketing solution in order to help businesses maximize their impact. Chris can help you understand how to be a designer, leader and entrepreneur in the marketing industry. With his unique background and passion for telling stories, Chris can help you understand how he was able to build his 7 figure marketing business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had a huge imposter syndrome. I felt like people were going to look at me and go what does he know… I had that nobody is going to listen to me, nobody is going to know if I am credible or whatever, I am a no name and all of that kind of stuff… Just recently in the last year and half I have come into my own and been really proud of my story”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Favourite Quote:
“What do you think about so-and-so?” “I’ve never heard of them” Donald Draper
Recommended Online Resources:
- Inc Magazine get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow
- Entrepreneur Magazine is a source for everything small business. Get the latest small business information
- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
- Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993.
- Podcasts
- The Verge was founded in 2011 in partnership with Vox Media, and covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture. Its mission is to offer in depth reporting and long form feature stories, breaking news coverage, product information, and community content in a unified and cohesive manner. The site is powered by Vox Media s Chorus platform, a modern media stack built for web native news in the 21st
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“there is not many people that can build something from nothing and you did it’ and the way he said it was like I am really proud of you…’ Just keep going’… I think people need to be reminded of hey just keep going because if we stop now and we just hang it all up I think that’s the easy thing to do… Just keep going because your greatest potential is on the other side of I quit. Don’t throw the things that you’ve worked hard and you know you’re doing the right thing. Just keep going”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Thomas:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” Sydney Madwed
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Thomas:
- “how I learned is I reach out to people who do it better than me and ask them if they are willing to share what they did wrong in the first 10 years of their business. Luckily enough they were willing to tell me”
- “I would have probably written down the skill sets that I really wanted us to do. Because at first it was just websites and then it grew into emails… The shortcut is figure out the toolset and the offerings that you are going to offer and be really good at that. Try not to be good at everything right out of the gate.”
- “I kind of had a saying of land and expand. If you want to land a client be really good at building whatever it is you build ”
- “as far as shortcuts it’s really figuring out what’s the one good thing that you are good at and then expand it later”
- “I am very diligent in my agency of how can we be a better? What’s the process that I’m missing? What are other people doing that I could make my own? I don’t like to copy and paste… Because what works for them is properly not going to work for me”
- “write down your goal of this is where I want to be a year from now”
- “I have always asked the question of why”
- “there is a difference in how people think and why they do things. Because if you look at it it’s always going to be a game of there’s a finite game and there’s an infinite game. In the finite game is like baseball… You’ve got nine innings. Or an infinite game just keeps going on and on. There’s going to be winners and losers but the game just keeps going. And really the winner is the one that just keeps on the track. Okay this is how we do it and this is why we do it and keep going”
- “I am in the experience realm. Experience meaning how do people start their first day on the job or how do you get customers to really be wowed by an experience… What is that moment that your customer is going to go I am a customer for life”
- “in business if you keep paying attention to your competitors you forget how to grow your business and what you are supposed to be doing. And if we always pay attention to people who are doing something else better than you and you go, I’m never going to do it then you’ve kind of already defeated yourself”
- “Keep going because your greatest potential is on the other side of I quit”
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