Devonée Thaxton’s passion is setting small businesses up. She’s deeply involved with the growth process and takes pride in her fine-tuned ability to catapult a brand towards its goals. She’s the founder of ProSavvy-a strategic performance agency that provides businesses with tailored structures to bring out the absolute best in their brands.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I never thought that I would be an entrepreneur… I was fine being part of the machine. For a while I never thought that I was going to own my own business and be a millionaire that was never in the cards for me until I got to a point where I want to help people more and I keep coming up to roadblocks and red tape within the corporate space where I am not to help and be of service in the ways that I wanted to. So really the hardest challenge after I developed the strategy, after I put it to paper of what I wanted it to look like… The hardest part was just saying yes”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Becoming Book by Michelle Obama
Also mentioned:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine Book by Mike Michalowicz
Favourite Quote:
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” Shirley Chisholm
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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“stop and plan. If you have any big ideas, if you want to implement something new, maybe you have found a new system that you want to add in… Stop and sit and plan out what this would look like. That includes due dates, that includes time, money, resources, people, really putting that down into paper before making the steps to make it happen. It will save you so much time and money in the future to sit down and plan your big ideas or different systems or things you want to implement into your business”…[Listen for More]
More About Devonée Thaxton:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” Marissa Mayer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Devonée Thaxton:
- “I heard about niche in down pretty early on but I would say it wasn’t until fairly recently that I settled into what my niche would be. So, I think that would go into the strategy and really planning before you get started of really trying to focus down a niche to really what you want to be doing. There is always an ebb and flow and it’s a change in the business changes. But I think that would have saved me a little bit of time, money and stress and learning…”
- “One secret is really staying true to yourself and knowing that the right people will come… If you stay true to yourself and stay true to the mission of your business the right people will come always”
- “if you want to make change you have got to get up and do it and start implementing”
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