Having spoken in over 30 countries on six continents, Rock and Roll Roadie turned entrepreneur Richard Mulholland knows first-hand the impact that memorable presentations can make. That’s why he works with executives and speakers around the world, helping them deliver unforgettable presentations that activate audiences and generate income.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Jamey Stegmaier Co-Founder Stonemaier Games
When business started difficulties overcame:
“without a doubt when I started it it was focus. I say I fell in love with problems but there were a lot of problems. So, the short-protracted version of the story has the story of missing link in that one problem and building up the business. Actually, by the end of the first year I had an outdoor advertising company called The Asylum, we had a projection business called Padded Cell and I was distributing energy drink called Excalibur through a business called court jester distribution”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Your Business Brickyard Book by Howard Mann
- Click the following link to listen to the Howard Mann Podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Favourite Quote:
“if action followed knowledge, we’d all have six packs” Neil Milan
Recommended Online Resources:
- Entrepreneurs’ Organization – The Entrepreneur Organization enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life
- Woven is the best calendar app period Super-fast calendaring and easy scheduling in one app Available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows
- Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone’s talking about
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you should be a thought leader in your industry. And if you can’t be a thought leader in your industry dig deeper until you can find the industry within your industry where you can lead. This is way should live now, that’s where you should rule, is find a corner of the world as I mentioned earlier that you can own. I say it about Stockport’s law. Any area that lacks an expert, whoever puts up their hand first becomes it. You’ve got to go and find an area where there isn’t an expert where someone isn’t owning the opinion within your industry in this and then on that”…[Listen for More]
More About Richard Mulholland:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” John Ruskin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Richard Mulholland:
- “the one mistake I made early and often was at the end of the year we had money and I declared a dividend and I bought myself nice things and I know realise that a dividend is something you should take only when there is nothing better to do with it in your business. And investing in your business early is incredible and a really, really great way to grow. It sounds so obvious but when you have all of this extra cash that you don’t really need in the business it feels like you should just spend it”
- “I had this delusional self-belief when I started. I was convinced that instead of investing money I would side with missing link best way to invest money was always internally and I would always have a better chance of making more money. And I certainly wish that I’d invested inside of my business more and outside my business more at a much earlier stage”
- “I think the number one secret to success is having a clear definition of your own version of what that looks like. Too often people are not successful because they let other people write their victory conditions for them. I think that is so deeply and utterly flawed. Nobody else has the authority on your success”
- “we get so obsessed with consuming knowledge that we spend too much time-consuming knowledge calories and not enough time burning it… and the benefit is in the burn”
- “every time I read a business book or a book with key learning, I write down a list of between five and ten actions and I don’t allow myself to start the next business book until I have checked off at least five actions in the one that I’ve finished reading”
- “I’ve divided my day into three core blocks and that is curator, create and communicate. So, meeting with people, research and finding cool information and knowledge and increasing my understanding of our topic, and then creating content for our program, for our speakers, whatever that would be”
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