Mike Saunders is the Author of the Amazon Bestselling book Authority Selling™, and a contributor to The Huffington Post, as well as an Adjunct Marketing Professor at several Universities, and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council – an invitation-only community for the World’s Most Influential Business and Career Coaches. As an Authority Marketing Strategist, Mike helps business owners build their Authority and Expertise to enhance their Competitive Advantage by helping them become an Amazon bestselling author without writing a word using his proprietary 3 Hour Authority™ System. The result is a spectacular Authority Positioning Portfolio™ which is the solution for opening more doors to closing more business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Old entrepreneurs
- Henry Ford
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Fear and uncertainty because you know what you want but you don’t know it’s going to work so coming in and having one foot in one world and another foot in another and I know this has been said many many times over the years but you got to be all in and you got to be jumping with both feet and yes the world we’re living in today does give us the ability to be at your nine to five job and have your entrepreneurial vision and start something at nights and weekends using the internet and different things you can do on the side and that’s wonderful but you have to make sure where you’re at a point where you say okay as soon as I hit x, it might not be the monetary amount each month to cover the bills but I’ve got enough momentum when I’m 50% of the way there or 30 or 60 or whatever works for you” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Magic of Thinking Big Book by David J Schwartz
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
Favourite Quote:
“Knowledge is potential power”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Kindle highlights
- TimeTrade – Gain new prospects and repeat customers with enterprise appointment scheduling software, queue management, and customer experience analytics from TimeTrade
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Know what you want, stick with it, and have a plan, have a blueprint, have it in front of you and write it down, I think a lot of the goal setting books out there will say this, physically taking a pen and paper and writing it down” …[Listen for More]
More About Mike Saunders:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?” Agatha Christie, The Moving
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mike Saunders:
- “And so to read some of those biographies and see how they put one foot in front of the other and had that drive and faith, you think of Henry Ford, he didn’t build a better horse or get a stronger horse, he built a car and back then nobody knew what that was”
- “Keep that focus from day one until you get to the end and it’s a clear decision”
- “You got to know what you want or you don’t know where you’re headed”
- “You can’t just try something for a week or two and go yup that didn’t work”
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