Steven Lefkoff is the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established in 2020 to empower litigants to perform as well as they can in their small claims case. Small Claims Academy’s first product, Gavel, is an online course to teach litigants the tips, tricks, and procedures of small claims courts.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Jim Hacking owner of Hacking Law Practice, LLC
- Tyson Mutrux Managing Partner at Mutrux Firm Injury Lawyers
- Joey Vitale owner of Indie Law
- Jay Ruane Owner: Ruane Attorneys at Law
When business started difficulties overcame:
“100 percent Neil was fear. That was for me being a lawyer financially that is not biggest challenge. It’s not an expensive job to have. I don’t need huge equipment, I don’t have to buy a bunch of widgets, I need a big warehouse, I don’t need anything like that. But what I do need are client. And when I left the firm I was at before where I was working to start my own practice one of the reasons that it took me seven years to do it was because I didn’t know if anybody was going to join me. And when I say anybody, I mean clients… There was just a lot of fear with how am I going to pay the bills if this doesn’t work”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Dave Ramsey books
- Tiger Tactics: Powerful Strategies for Winning Law Firms Book by Jay Ruane and Ryan McKeen and Billie Tarascio and William Umansky and Theresa DeGray
Favourite Quote:
“push the button”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“push the button… If you have a great idea in your mind or you have an exciting thing that you want to do then take it step-by-step. Write out the steps, say the first five. What do you have to do at the beginning? Register the business, come up with a name, ask a bunch of people what they think about it. Whatever it is right out your steps and just start tackling them one by one”…[Listen for More]
More About Steven Lefkoff:
- Small Claims Academy
- Gavel
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” William W. Purkey
Other Quotes From the Chat with Steven Lefkoff:
- “when I started Gavel, I learned that people don’t inherently trust something that’s never been done before. And I say that in the perspective of an attorney and law firm owner who has trust from the second somebody is referred to me… When you are an entrepreneur and you are creating a product or a service that’s never been created before or has no testimonials, no reviews, no experience from the consumer then you have to earn that, you have to create that trust, you have to develop that trust. And that is something that I did not know when I started small claims Academy and the Gavel program”
- “to me the biggest inhibitor to new business development is folk’s unwillingness to risk things. And those that are, are either incredibly successful or failed miserably. But they get back up, even if you fail get back up”
- “if you are willing to take the risk you have to be willing to live with the benefits and with the shortcomings – whatever happens as a result of that risk. That risk is critically important”
- “go on Facebook live push the button and announce that you are doing this. Because once you do that now a lot of people know about it and you have to do it, you have no choice”
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