Karl Sakas, is the president of Sakas & Company and author of Made to Lead, The In-Demand Marketing Agency, and more than 200 articles on agency/sales management. Karl strives to help marketing and sales agencies grow profitably. With more than 20 years of consulting experience, Karl’s work focuses on eliminating growing pains through operations, strategy and leadership advice.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“One of the initial challenges was, would there be enough customers, enough clients for me, when I got started I thought okay, I want to reach agencies that are in driving distance so I was thinking people in a 4 to 5 hour radius if I were driving, I was working to do some estimates and I didn’t have good data at the time of how many agencies there were in that radius”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy Book by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
Favourite Quote:
“All will come right”
Recommended Online Resources:
Twitter – is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, “tweets”, restricted to 140 characters.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Recognise that running a business is tough, but it doesn’t have to be so hard, what I mean by that is you can learn from others mistakes, you can learn from ideas from fellow entrepreneurs, from this podcast, from mastermind groups, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, for sure you’re going to do things that are totally unique to you but really business is about finding the right combination of things and putting it together in a way that works for you and works for your customers or clients”…[Listen for More]
More About Karl Sakas:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” Ruby Dee
Other Quotes From the Chat with Karl Sakas:
- “If you have a business where the advice applies regardless of geography, you don’t need to necessarily limit yourself to a specific place and if you can do things remotely you don’t have to be on a plane every week”
- “People have great ideas, but if they can’t turn them into reality, it’s as if the idea never happened”
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