Aaron M Welch is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and marketer with more than 20 years of digital marketing experience. He is the founder of Lift Digital Marketing, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in generating new leads for businesses focused on growth. He has been featured in Yahoo Finance, NBC, Digital Journal, Thrive Global, Medium and Vocal.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Jason Fried Co-founder & CEO of Basecamp
- Seth Godin
- Tim Ferriss
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when I started my first business there wasn’t much to overcome. I was 25, single, no wife, no kids, no mortgage. I could live off 1500 dollars a month and I was young enough to think I was invincible. So I just started it, there wasn’t much to lose which I know is terrible advice that I would never give to anyone. So the first time around it was just a crazy belief in myself that it would work”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Book by Seth Godin
- Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time? Book by Seth Godin
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Awaken The Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Life Book by Tony Robbins
Also mentioned:
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
Favourite Quote:
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half” John Wanamaker (1838-1922)
Recommended Online Resources:
- HubSpot Blog – Marketing, Sales, Agency, and Customer Success Content. HubSpot s Blog for marketing, sales, agency, and customer success content, which has more than 400,000 subscribers and attracts over 4.5 million monthly visitors
- Entrepreneur Magazine is a source for everything small business. Get the latest small business
- Small Business Trends. Small Business News, Tips, Advice. Small Business Trends helps entrepreneurs, business owners, influencers and experts by covering tech products, small business news, and movers and shakers
- Google Blog – Discover all the latest about their products, technology, and Google culture on their official blog
- Your local library
- Libby – The Libby App by OverDrive: Free ebooks & audiobooks from the library
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find something that you are good at, find something that you enjoy doing and do that the best you can. Deliver as much value as you can to people. Find a problem and either fixed it or try your damnedest to get it fixed”…[Listen for More]
More About Aaron M Welch:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You are so much stronger than your excuses.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Aaron M Welch:
- “you can’t do it all yourself. Three people doing 60 percent of what I can do is still way more than 100 percent of what I can do. And it also gives people the opportunity to learn, to grow and to become more valuable and gain skills and gain skills. Growing people is part of the job as owning a business, even if they are vendor’s, even if they are freelancers or contractors or whatever. You rely on a lot of people”
- “one of the most underrated secrets to success is defining what success is… If you don’t know how to define success then how could you possibly be successful”
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