Allan Dib is a serial entrepreneur, rebellious marketer and technology expert. He has started and grown multiple businesses in various industries including IT, telecommunications and marketing. Allan is passionate about helping businesses find new and innovative ways to leverage technology and marketing to facilitate rapid business growth.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I was flying blind, I had no idea I was a rebel without a clue I made that classic mistake that Michael Gerber says, I thought because I’m smart enough to do the technical stuff of the business that I would be smart enough to run a business and nothing could be further from the truth so that was really something that was a massive shock to me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Book by Robert Cialdini
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Book by Robert Cialdini
Favourite Quote:
“Start with education not motivation because if you have an idiot and you motivate him you have a motivated idiot”
Recommended Online Resources:
The Hustle – Your smart, good looking friend that sends you an email each morning with all the tech and business news you need to know for the day.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Find the leverage point in your business. From my perspective and I’m of course biased but it’s very much around marketing because if you get 10% better at negotiation or you get 10% better at the technical thing that you do. That can have an incremental effect, but if you get 10% better at marketing that can have an exponential effect to what you do”…[Listen for More]
More About Allan Dib:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“A scientist doesn’t know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.” Oliver Butterworth
Other Quotes From the Chat with Allan Dib:
- “Keep investing in yourself”
- “School is never out for the pro”
- “It’s certainly instructing that people who are the most successful people who you’d ever think of, the warren buffets, the Bill Gates, they’re very big readers, they’re very big students and I think that’s very very instructive for all entrepreneurs to understand”
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