Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts in business storytelling. He’s the bestselling author of several books, including The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell and Lead with a Story, holds an MBA from the Wharton School, and is a former executive of The Procter & Gamble Company.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“thinking of my business as one business and not two. Meaning I should have thought of it as one business instead of two… I write books and I give speeches and teach training classes and I was thinking of them as two separate businesses each of which needed to earn profit and that was mistake… I need to think of my business as one big business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Profit Zone, the: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits Book by Slywotzky AdrianFavourite Quote:
“if you love what you do you will never work day in your life”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Hootsuite is a social media management platform for business. Manage all of your social media profiles including Twitter and Facebook from a single dashboard, schedule tweets and posts, and measure your results with Hootsuite Pro
- Ecamm Live – Powerful Live Streaming Platform for Mac. Powerful Facebook, YouTube and Periscope Livestreaming platform for Mac
- ManyCam – Live video software & Virtual Webcam. ManyCam allows you to enhance your live streams, video calls and conferences with powerful live video tools
Also mentioned:
- Wirecast – Live video streaming production software that allows you to capture, stream video from multiple sources simultaneously
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“test market your ideas… Test market your idea before you quit your job… Test market your idea while you have still got your main job and the income is coming in because you might have to try three or four ideas before you find one that works. And that we you have not thrown your family out on the streets trying to find this brilliant entrepreneurial idea. And establish your success criteria upfront… Pick what are your success criteria for this test market and then if you hit it then you can go and you can feel good about it that you’ve made a wise decision”…[Listen for More]
More About Paul Smith:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” Suzy Kassem
Other Quotes From the Chat with Paul Smith:
- “knowing something and knowing how to teach it to someone else are two different things. And I just didn’t invest any time early on learning the art of teaching. I learned the art of storytelling but I should have spent some time learning instructional design. How do you design classroom instruction to be the most effective? Over the last eight years I have figured it out but I would have got a faster start if I had invested in some training in myself in that art”
- “attitude is not everything but it seems to be almost everything… I think attitude and perseverance in any entrepreneurial field is almost as important as how good you are technically all the quality of whatever it is that you are actually doing”
- “there is so many times when I could have given up on this dream”
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