Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert. As the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees.
Founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Simply Noted has grown into a thriving company with clients of various sizes across the country including in hospitality, real estate, insurance, nonprofit, franchise, B2B, and others. Rick has served as the company’s CEO since its founding, for more than three years, and has over a decade of sales and marketing industry experience.
Rick “I help businesses of all industries to stand out from their competition & build meaningful relationships by using unique marketing platform”
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Business mentors Rick knows
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We started this with no loans, no debt and no investors. Saying I bit off more than I could chew is an understatement. There is tons of software that goes into what we do, tons of mechanical engineering, tons of development, and we have spent over seven figures in R&D backing our business. So doing this with no money was an extreme challenge. I am extremely conservative by trade. My wife was the one that really pushed me into doing it… I think that that was a really good thing for me to do any entrepreneurs to really start off and don’t just go and get a loan, don’t just go and get an investor. Really what you need to do is go build a product, find a proof concept, find a product market fit and then go after it. And that’s really what we have done here and that is what has allowed us to scale profitably”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
Also mentioned…
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow Book by John Warrillow
Favourite Quote:
“What you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying”
Recommended Online Resources:
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- 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.
- Chat GPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue. is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.
- Google LLC – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“every person kind of has that analysis paralysis in that they don’t get started. If you don’t get started today most likely are never going to get started. And it is just getting started and taking that first step… That’s what it is to build a business, it’s just one step at a time… And you have got to be patient… It may take a long time”…[Listen for More]
More About Rick Elmore:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at the right time, it is also about taking actions at the right time.” Amit Kalantri
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rick Elmore:
- “To scale a business, you have to have a good product, you have got to have product market fit. But then here are the two ways you are going to scale your business; outbound, you have got to have a really good sales team, you have got to have a really good outbound strategy; then you have got to have an inbound strategy, so what type of inbound are you going to do? Are you going to do SEO or are you going to do ads…”
- “The only secret to success is to just never give up, you have to strive every single day. Wake up, keep moving forward, you are going to get knocked down, you have got to get back up… There are no secret answers, there really isn’t… Every business owner has doubts, every business owner doesn’t know what they are doing in some form or fashion, but what business owners do that are successful is they figure it out and they don’t give up”
- “Eventually when you sell you have got to kill the king”
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