Everything you need to know to get started in business

Key quotes:

• "Your success (and financial stability) will come from expertly running your business — not writing copy, rebranding your client’s website, running your candle boutique, teaching yoga, selling real estate, or making jewelry."
• "I finally came to terms with the fact that I was being naïve about how money, peace, survival, and timing all work together, and I got a second job."
• "Summed up: communicate about everything — even though you’re friends, even though you love each other, even though you trust each other, even though you’ve worked together at XYZ Company because projects have a way of going sideways and making everyone a little custodial and overreactive."
• "I know you just want to spend all your days making CBD candles, or sarsaparilla-scented beard oil, or writing your YA fantasy novel, or life coaching entrepreneurs to stratospheric success, but if you don’t spend time marketing you will not make money."
• "There are three main types: Once you have figured out your marketing personality, selling to your customers will be a thousand times easier because you will be working within your natural ability."

Key quotes:

• "In another life(at least it seems that way now) I went to pitch my idea for a music-sharing-social-media-platform to my potential investors."
• "The world faced a sluggish recovery after the Great Recession, but the time to start my own business was as good as any."
• "My accountant set us a meeting with the first line of investors, and we boldly went to ask for money."
• "When starting out, you’ll have to run around and present yourself and your baby in the best way possible."
• "Building your personal brand as the founder of the business is one of the best things you can do for the company."
• "Most of your friends and acquaintances that started their business around the same time as you won’t make it to the end of the year."

Key quotes:

• "I’ve been an entrepreneur for the past 30 years and during that time I’ve started eight businesses and am currently working on business number nine."
• "I learned some important lessons and today I do many things differently to when I started out."
• "In this blog, I’ll tell you the 10 most important things to do or not to do that I wished I’d known when I started my first business."
• "Don’t get a loan to finance your life until your business in going."
• "I truly believe, if we wouldn’t have been the best in what we did at the time then our business would not have survived the recessions we’ve been through over the years."
• "Always keep in mind what your business can afford at any given time and make sure that employing someone will increase your revenue to pay for the expense."

Key quotes:

• "In the next 10 minutes, I’m going to give you everything you need to start your own business in 90 days ."
• "So I figured it’s time to put it all into one epic, no BS, ‘this is it’ video.In the next 10 minutes, I’m going to give you everything you need to start your own business in 90 days."
• "So I figured it’s time to put it all into one epic, no BS, ‘this is it’ video."
• "Here it is: Exclusive Download: Top Books For Transforming The Entrepreneur’s Life — Carefully Curated List From Over 1000+ Books and Almost 20 Years of Reading The 5 key points to starting a business that I cover in the video are: Usually, I talk about scaling a SaaS to millions in recurring revenue or how to increase expansion revenue and decrease churn… But once upon a time, I was starting out."
• "So this advice is as much for 17-year-old Dan Martell as it is for you or anyone you know that has the drive and wants to get started."
• "You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome."

Transcript: Hello this is Simeon with aqua force para wash from Oklahoma I just want to take the time to show you my power wash trailer we're at the end of 2016 about to go into 2017 and I've been looking on YouTube and I see a lot of people that are trying to get into the pressure washing business it's a it is a real good business and I've been doing this since 2001 and what I want to just take the time to do is show you my power wash trailer and give you guys some ideas as far as maybe what direction you may want to go in and you kind of push that you may have you know just respond back to this YouTube and I will definitely get you into the right direction and like I said what I want to do is just real quickly just walk walk you guys around my pressure wash trailer just starting at the front real quick I got two spare tire mount locations right there I just left the Goodyear store there actually I was about to do some work for them and they're a little bit tied up... See more →

Key quotes:

• "While working for yourself is one of the most rewarding things you will ever do, it’s quite different from working for someone else."
• "I’ve often heard how life-giving it is to have the privilege to set your own working hours and decide what you want to do each day."
• "When you start a business for the first time, you are going to work your tail off."
• "It’s like the Twitter of business plans, or what Twitter used to be — focused and concise."
• "The first day you wake up as a self-employed person, you need to figure out how you are going to pay your bills in 30, 60, and 90 days."
• "The business card doesn’t do squat for you in the startup process."

Transcript: What's up everyone its Natalie here and today I am filming a super exciting video for you guys because it is a video on how to start a business slash how to start an online store so mainly how to start an online store but it definitely does have to do with starting a business because an online store is a business I am so excited I haven't filmed a video like this and I just feel like it's gonna be super informative so grab your notebooks start writing some notes sad if you guys don't know me I'm Natalie by the way in case you couldn't tell already and I have my own online store so preface this I'm gonna give you a little background about me I'm gonna make it quick so this video isn't too too long but I am 22 years old so I am a business owner at age 22 which is pretty cool I graduated college in May I got a degree in industrial engineering I have a consulting job so I am working for a consulting company right now full time I got that job after college and so far I have been... See more →