Mark Firth is the founder of Linkedpreneurs, a 7-figure business that helps business owners and solopreneurs to make more money, have more time and freedom using LinkedIn. He believes it is possible to change your life with LinkedIn relationships, just like he did. Mark Firth spent a large portion of his life working a corporate job in London, but he was left feeling unfulfilled and in need of creating an impact. He decided to take an extended break and visit Colombia, not knowing it would be one of the best decisions of his life. Mark met, fell in love and quickly started a family in Columbia, but he didn’t have a job. To support his new family, he wanted to start an online business and remembered that when he worked for corporate companies, like IBM and Siemens, he used LinkedIn to prospect and book qualified sales calls through a personalized approach based on human-to-human connection. In 2017, he founded Linkedpreneurs where he combined traditional B2B sales and online marketing to generate leads. He has helped thousands of business owners and solopreneurs to consistently book qualified calls that become clients through LinkedIn using their personal connection system called Emotional Brand Intelligence. In return, his clients have more time, money and freedom to make an impact and change their life.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Sir Richard Branson
- Elon Musk
- Dan Sullivan co-founder of Strategic Coach
- Stephen Covey
- Chip Wilson founder of Westbeach Snowboard and lululemon athletica
- Phil Knight founder of Nike
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I’m going to go back to the model that I mentioned earlier in the conversation and that is the three levels of teaching tactics, you know cut-and-paste, strategy why, numbers game relationship whatever fav that principles, the way the human brain works. So, I had challenges in all three of those areas and the first thing I tried to do that presented me with a lack of success was the tactics. I would do the YouTube videos, the on-line programs and they tell me how to say this and how to say that, I had to do this I had to do that. But I didn’t really understand at that point the bigger picture, why I was doing it. I didn’t even know the strategy let alone have awareness of the principles. So that led to whole lot of frustration”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How To Lose Your Mind And Create A New One Book by Dr. Joe DispenzaAny biography by a successful person
Also mentioned:
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Book by Carmine Gallo
- The Dan Sullivan Question: Ask it and Transform Anyone’s Future Book by Dan Sullivan
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- Little Black Stretchy Pants: The Unauthorized Story of lululemon Book by Chip Wilson
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight
- The One Minute Millionaire..The Enlightened Way To Wealth: English (Famous Series Book 1) Book by Mark Victor Hansen And Robert G Allen
Favourite Quote:
- “we cannot become what we want by remaining where we are. We cannot become who we want by remaining who we are”
Also mentioned:
- “Everything is Figureoutable” Marie Forleo
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“We cannot become what we want by remaining who we are. We have got to become familiar with the unknown, we’ve got to get mentors and coaches. But overall, I think the biggest lesson I’ve taken is by changing your internal state we can exchange our external results. Too many people focus on tactics without focusing on their external state. Focus on your mind, focus on your control of emotions, focus on your beliefs. Start expecting success instead of believing that it might fail, start believing in what you do and charging what you are worth. And that all comes from the internal game influencing the external game. That’s the best advice I can give from my personal experience ”…[Listen for More]
More About Mark Firth:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It’s my life It’s now or never I ain’t gonna live forever I just want to live while I’m alive” It’s My Life, Bon Jovi
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mark Firth:
- “Everything is Figureoutable… Stop getting afraid of making mistakes. I wish I could tell the old me stop worrying about perfection, stop worrying about making mistakes. Stop thinking about doing stuff, stop over analysing, just try it. A lot of the mistakes I see these days is people try and get their marketing going from the outside in – that’s going from themselves to the market. What they actually need to do is go from the inside out – from the market to them. The quickest way to define, refine and get product or service or whatever it is going is from the market to themselves – that’s where the real message is… Go to the market see what happens, then refine and iterate from thereon up”
- “The secrets to success… The basics, understand the fundamentals and take action daily. There is no greater secret to success them taking action. Stop thinking about getting ready. Stop getting ready to get ready, stop analysing, go and talk to the market today ”
- “The best offer you can offer your marketplace is the one that you actually offer”
- “To start thinking about your business like that. The best offer, the best way of doing things is to take action and learn, build that feedback mechanism ”
- “Imperfect action is better than no action every day”
- “If you are everyday to be Groundhog Day then carry on what you are doing. If you want to become the new future version of yourself, get comfortable with the unknown and become someone new. And I think that reflects my philosophy to business”
- “You get a lifetime of skills and lessons distilled into one book”
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