Stephen Somers is the co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an online education and services company that helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from complete scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has won 5 two-comma club awards for Marketplace SuperHeroes, which is now an 8 figure business, and the guys have also helped over 8,000 people to create multiple income streams online.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Loads. When I started out, I had no previous business experience, I was working as a data processor in a government job in Ireland at the time and I didn’t have any marketable skills… I was trying to get a better job for myself and everybody basically said you’ve no experience, you’ve no real skills, you are not for us. So that is where I got interested in business. And I suppose the biggest obstacle or difficult it I had was I didn’t know and I didn’t understand the end-to-end process”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat Book by Michael Masterson
- The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime Book by MJ DeMarco
Also mentioned:
- The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Book by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer
Favourite Quote:
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want” Charles T. Munger
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be a student number one, stop believing in yourself number two, it sounds strange but find a proven process. Always look for the proven process no matter what you are doing. If you are starting, if you are growing, whatever, find people who have already done it and then learn from them, model them, do whatever it takes. Because the answers are truly out there. Then as time goes on you can innovate”…[Listen for More]
More About Stephen Somers:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln
Other Quotes From the Chat with Stephen Somers:
- “You have to understand how to make an offer not just sell a product… So, what does that mean? If you are selling an iPhone cover… What else could you put with that iPhone cover? Could you do anything else? Could you add in a little guide about how to use your iPhone? Or could you add in a cleaning kit for the screen? What more can you do to just take something away from a commoditised product into an offer? And if you are in a coaching type business, information type business there is so much opportunity there to add in really interesting cool things that people haven’t seen before…”
- “Take full responsibility for your life and for your results… Taking responsibility for the results for your life and everything that happens in it is the most important success principle. And the reality is if you complain, if you blame other people or whatever you are not taking full responsibility and as a result of that you are not going to be as successful as you can be. On the other thing that is added to that idea is, what are you tending not to know?”
- “Know what you want”
- “Setting goals, chunking goals down”
- “You can really look at your results and you can ask yourself; do I deserve great results? Or do my actions only deserve mediocre results? And it’s beautiful because you are the cause, the problem and the solution to everything that you do”
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