Brian Clark is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, the company behind Copyblogger, StudioPress, and the Rainmaker Platform.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“A complete lack of a clue, on one hand and the other hand I’ve looked back and the fact that I had no traditional marketing sales or business experience turned out to be a blessing because a lot of what slowed people down in the late 90s and the early part of the last decade was not being able to figure out how the internet was different and I got that right away, what I had to back and learn was more traditional aspects of marketing”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers Book by Seth GodinFavourite Quote:
“It’s not that I’m so much smarter than everyone else, it’s just that I stay with the problem longer”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Trello – Infinitely flexible Incredibly easy to use Great mobile app. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details
- Slack – brings all your communication together in one place It’s real time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Love your work, don’t do it just for the money, because you’re going to have to get up every day, you’re going to have to work on it, you’re going to have to think about it, think about it some more. If you succeed you’re going to have to keep going, everyone is like, these are good problems to have. It’s true but if you feel like you have an obligation to stay with this business you created that you no longer like, you might as well just have a job”…[Listen for More]
More About Brian Clark:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can’t find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.” Jasper Fforde
Other Quotes From the Chat with Brian Clark:
- “I like to think of entrepreneurs, at least successful entrepreneurs as highly compensated servants to their market, to their people and if you have the mindset of the first, it doesn’t matter how savvy you are, how much money you’re hoping to make, it always comes down to doing something for someone else where they perceive that they’re getting more value than the money they’re giving you”
- “You don’t buy a mailing list, you earn it”
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