Ed Troxell helps you turn your ideas into income and guides you through the tech challenges along the way.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Ed’s Friends, family and people throughout his journey from teachers to mentors he has had around him. It really started with his Dad, Mom and also his grandparents.
When business started difficulties overcame:
The difficulties would have to be finding the right resources. And when I say resources I mean not only the books, not only the websites ( now we have podcasts), really finding the right resources, the people that can help you that are going to be invested in you and what you have to do…there are so many people out there that are really good at what I would say sweet talking and then when you get into business you realise that they are not really helping you and you have spent a lot of time, money, and energy in that relationship that it makes it really hard to move forward. So definitely one of the difficulties is finding the right people. And when you do find them really, really appreciate that and be grateful for any time that you get with them and to not take that for granted”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth Book by Jen Sincero
- Invent it, Sell it, Bank it!: Make Your Million-dollar Idea into a Reality Book by Lori Greiner
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Book by Scott Galloway
Favourite Quote:
“people come for the content and stay for the community” Josh Stanton
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.
- Facebook – Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
- YouTube – Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
Really to just start. You really need to just start whatever it is. It doesn’t matter if you are utter 9-to-5 or not you just need to start… show up, deliver and engage. That’s it, that is really the success formula right there. Just start, show up, deliver your content whatever you have in terms of your content, engage. Engage is the secret sauce there – that is the one. But you can’t get to that one unless you do the ones before it…[Listen for More]
More About Ed Troxell:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.” Brian Lawley
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ed Troxell:
- “Business has always been a passion of mine and something I have helped people with small businesses as well as large companies”
- “I am able to share my tech gift, which is helping people break down the technology”
- “Even if I didn’t have an answer for something I am still going to provide some resource or some referral”
- “the magic happens in the comments”
- “the moment I start relaxing the moment I start becoming more creative”
- “researching and testing, those are the two things you really need to dive in to, and to see what is out there. There is so much information out there and there are so many routes you can go”
- “I refer back to my first business a lot because it taught me everything I needed to know to go out confidently”
- “here is the content, here is what attracts but you are going to stay for the community”
- “going in with a research mindset”
- “show up, deliver and engage”
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