Daniel Rusteen runs Optimize My Airbnb which helps Airbnb hosts make more money. His speciality is helping your listing rank high in Airbnb search, but he also provides strategy around Airbnb automation, guest experience, interior design, revenue management, and more.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The thing that I kind of realised mostly when I started my business is that half or more of the time of running your business isn’t running the business it’s researching and making the right decision. Every single decision that you do you have to make a decision because you’re the sole owner or at least I am, I have to research all these different answers on my own and there’s no forum you can go to, to get the answers it’s very specific to you”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
Favourite Quote:
“The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts”
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Entrepreneur Way
- Podcasts
- Google – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Internally you need to realise if you’re an entrepreneur at heart or not, for me I realised this was the case and I just never pulled the trigger until I got fired and had to pull the trigger. It’s hard to explain but there was a lot of people that I talked to while I was at the 9-5 job and I would have conversations with them and they simply preferred the 9-5 life style and the pay check and the medical coverage and the lifestyle and in some companies they give free food and massages and what not and that is a very comfortable lifestyle and at the end of the day I was never satisfied with this and I’ve come to learn through these last two years that I’m so much more satisfied doing what I do now than I was then” …[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” Rainer Maria Rilke
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