Rick Nicholson started his entrepreneurial path as a multi unit franchisee in the restaurant industry. Since then, he has started 3 different businesses, two of which were restaurants. His passion is as a marketing strategist. With 15 years marketing experience, combined with his entrepreneurial work, he understands what it means when there’s not enough customers to pay the bills.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Realising that I was capable, that it was going to be okay if whatever plan that I’d figured out wasn’t going to work and that somehow it would all come together as long as I kept moving it and pushing it, maybe it wouldn’t look exactly the way I envisioned it at that moment but I’d be pushing it along somehow”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Book by Simon Sinek
Favourite Quote:
“When people talk, listen completely, most people never listen”
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t try to be like anyone else, just be yourself, there will be other people who will like you for who you are and from there you get authentic and ultimately just go do it”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Rasheed Ogunlaru “There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rick Nicholson:
“Failure is never an option”
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