Episode 15: Developing Your Compelling Business Offer With Nailah Blades

An important part of being an entrepreneur is learning from your peers. “Unstoppable Entrepreneur” profiles entrepreneurs just like yourselves who have taken the leap to follow their passion and create their own work & lifestyle. They share their expertise: tips for success, tools they use and valuable things they have learned along the way.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Nailah Blades of Polka Dot Coaching. Nailah discusses the importance of having a strong business foundation before focusing on the ‘glitz and glamour’ aspects of your business like branding, website and biz cards.

Watch/Listen to the video below and share your feedback!

Key Takeaways

  • The importance of building your business foundation before you start working on your website, business cards and branding
  • Getting clear on your offering
  • Listening to your target market and adapting
  • Not ignoring your ‘calendar of freedom’ as an entrepreneur and WHY you started a business

Click to Tweet Have a solid offer before you focus on the glitz and glamour part of your business  @NailahBlades

Resources Mentioned

The $100 Startup

About Nailah Blades

Nailah is the founder of Polka Dot Coaching where she helps her clients create lucrative businesses they are passionate about and that are aligned with their core values—by breaking down queen-sized dreams into bite-sized goals. 

 

 

 

Episode 14: From Stuck To Unstoppable: Benny Hsu’s $30K app launch success story!

An important part of being an entrepreneur is learning from your peers. “Unstoppable Entrepreneur” profiles entrepreneurs just like yourselves who have taken the leap to follow their passion and create their own work & lifestyle. They share their expertise: tips for success, tools they use and valuable things they have learned along the way.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Benny Hsu of Get Busy Living. Benny shares how he moved from being stuck and fed up of constantly ‘hoping’ for things to change to finally taking action and making things happen. He talks about how he launched his first app without having any programming knowledge but the desire to learn and find resources that could help him.

Watch/Listen to the video below and share your feedback!

Key Takeaways

  • How he launched an app that made $30 000 in the first month-without any programming knowledge
  • Consistency is important and beats out trying hard in short bursts and burning out
  • Model someone’s success: see how they did it, how you can learn from them and reach out!
  • It’s never too late to get started
  • You don’t have to have all the skills: figure out what you are good at and get help with the rest using outsourcing

Click to Tweet:  Hope is not a strategy. You have to take action to move forward -@Benny_Hsu  http://bit.ly/R4OkZp

Click to Tweet: Appreneur @Benny_Hsu shares how he got unstuck and took the leap to launch his first app  http://bit.ly/R4OkZp #entrepreneur

About Benny Hsu

Benny Hsu is an appreneur and blogs at Get Busy Living where he shares insights about pursuing your passions and having financial freedom to be your own boss in life. He has developed two apps and is launching the AppAcademy this fall.


 

Get the first chapter of ‘From Stuck to Unstoppable: How To Go From Idea To Launch‘ and learn more about Benny’s story and how he moved from being stuck to launching an awesome app!

 

 

Episode 13: Why Your Business Needs Systems With Shelia Butler + Giveaway!

An important part of being an entrepreneur is learning from your peers. “Unstoppable Entrepreneur” profiles entrepreneurs just like yourselves who have taken the leap to follow their passion and create their own work & lifestyle. They share their expertise: tips for success, tools they use and valuable things they have learned along the way.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Shelia Butler of Successful Women Talk. Shelia has successfully grown (and sold) a business from zero to 7 million dollars, has launched a new children’s line called MeGiant and in her free time runs Successful Women Talk. In this interview, Shelia shares the importance of having systems in your business even if you are just one person and the traits of successful women entrepreneurs.

Watch/Listen to the video below and check out the giveaway below!

(Due to a slight tech-fail the video did not get recorded so it is only the audio portion of our interview).

Here are some

Key Takeaways

  • The importance of having mentors early on
  • While you do need the big picture for your business you also need to be agile, change course & correct. If it’s not working, fix it. Fix it quickly.
  • Create processes even if you are just one person in your business whether they are checklists, templates for your posts or short videos to explain things to your clients.

Treating people well and having good customer service goes a long way.  http://bit.ly/RYdnz7 via @SuccessfulWT   Click to Tweet

As a business owner, if you become a technician and do all the work you are never going to grow. via @successfulWT  http://bit.ly/RYdnz7 Click to Tweet

People & Resources Mentioned In This Interview:

Giveaway!

I’m giving away a (physical) copy of E-Myth Revisited.

To enter simply leave a comment below sharing an insight you had from the interview.

Bonus entries:

I’ll pick a winner on Thursday October 4th, 12pm EST.

About Shelia Butler

Shelia Butler is the founder of SuccessfulWomenTalk where she interviews successful business women and shares their stories to help you level up in your business.  She is ridiculously passionate about small business and her goal is to help you get the business, customers and life you deserve. She is also the founder of MeGiant, a children’s clothing line. 

Episode 12: Kickstart Your Business With A Solid Plan & Accountability

An important part of being an entrepreneur is learning from your peers. “Unstoppable Entrepreneur” profiles entrepreneurs just like yourselves who have taken the leap to follow their passion and create their own work & lifestyle. They share their expertise: tips for success, tools they use and valuable things they have learned along the way.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Jules Taggart and Krystina Feucht of Kickstart Kitchen.  Jules and Krystina share the importance of starting with a solid business foundation, having mentors and accountability partners and doing just one thing every day to move you forward.

Watch/Listen to the video below!

So many juicy nuggets! Here are some

Key Takeaways

  • Having a plan but not over-planning!
  • Why your BFF should not be your mentor
  • The importance of having a solid foundation in your business
  • Not confusing goals with to-do’s
  • The power of masterminds and accountability
  • Finding collaboration partners to help you grow your community and business

“When you have skin in the game you’ll really start to take it seriously” Click to Tweet

“You want to love what you do but you also want to get paid. You’re in business to make money.” Click to Tweet

People mentioned in this interview

Be the first to find out when their program launches by signing up at kickstartkitchen.com/catalyst

About Kickstart Kitchen

startup entrepreneur resourcesKickstart Kitchen provides tools, training, coaching and community interaction so you can get clear about what you want for yourself and your business. We teach you how to maximize your resources and create a profit-focused action plan. Most of all, we show you how to dust off that dream and get it out into the world.

Episode 11: 3 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make And How To Overcome Them

An important part of being an entrepreneur is learning from your peers. “Unstoppable Entrepreneur” profiles entrepreneurs just like yourselves who have taken the leap to follow their passion and create their own work & lifestyle. They share their expertise: tips for success, tools they use and valuable things they have learned along the way.

This week I bring you all the way from ‘down under’ Jo Foster of Love Your Small Business. Jo shares with us the common mistakes that entrepreneurs make when first starting out, her and her business partner Janine’s business breakthrough and the awesome course they are launching.

Watch the video below!

Jo made this super easy by doing most of the talking 🙂 and shared so many valuable nuggets! Some of the

Key Takeaways:

  • Why you don’t need to spend hours creating a business plan
  • Three key lessons which include mindset, pricing and not casting your net too wide
  • Why you have to get super specific and narrow about the people you want to help and work with
  • Their own business breakthrough and how they became more confident and started to generate the income that they wanted to generate

 

There are even more lessons! Watch the free training videos from Love Your Small Business’ Rock Solid Business Strategy.

 

 

Thank you Jo!

About Jo Foster

Jo is an intrepid Kiwi entrepreneur and co-founder of Love Your Small Business. She believes in empowering women in business to creat kick-butt business plans so that they can generate profit with purpose. The Online Business School kicks off the first week of September!