Michael Roderick is the founder of Small Pond Enterprises. He works with coaches and consultants on curating and growing their existing networks and leveraging their time making relationship building a productive part of business growth. He is also the founder of ConnectorCon, a conference for Connectors and the co-host of the podcast Access to Anyone.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“In the early stages you have this idea, this thing that you want to do and it’s not a traditional thing, if I decided to start an accounting business, I could very easily go to people and say hey here’s the deal, you hate dealing with money, I’m an accountant, I can help you not deal with money but when you’re dealing with something as morphis as sells about that particular idea so a lot of what I had to do when I first got started was have conversations with people and understand where did they see the value and what was it they were trying to achieve and how was it my business sort of fit into that equation”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Book by Jim CollinsFavourite Quote:
“You can get anything in the world that you want if you help enough people in the world get what they want”
Recommended Online Resources:
Entro – Takes the hassle out of referrals and introductions…
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“The keys to all the doors that you need open are in other peoples pocket’s, it’s your job to develop relationships with people so they’re willing to give you those keys, you’re not going to do this alone, regardless of how much skill you have whatever it is, you will need other people to help you accomplish it so it’s best for you to develop those relationships now and let those people know what it is that you need and you’d be surprised how many people are willing to hand you those keys and help you achieve those things that you want to achieve”…[Listen for More]
More About Michael Roderick:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.” Thabo Mbeki
Other Quotes From the Chat with Michael Roderick:
- “You have to know what success is for you”
- “You can’t compare your success to other peoples”
- “If you want to have a business that’s under 6 figures, that’s your call, if you want your business to make a lot of money, that’s your call, you can’t let other people dictate what success is for you, decide what success is for yourself”
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