Backwater Entrepreneur

Growing your business comes with a lot of challenges, both for yourself as an entrepreneur as well as your team. Managing team dynamics and the individuals within the growing company means that sometimes you have to recognize do you have the right team for the stage that your business is in? Are you enabling your team to outgrow you and why that should be your goal? Are you happy being an entrepreneur or are you creating a job for yourself in the future? To all these and much more, my guest and me try to give answers to in this episode. Samantha Woolven is a business consultant who is constantly challenging the status quo, removing mistrust, creating a safe environment for real problems to be tackled openly and honestly. She brings the right people together and get them talking. By enabling people to be bigger, better, stronger, and more sure versions of themselves, she helps businesses to co-create strategies for change that are rooted in real-life and flexible enough for the future. You can connect with Samantha on these links: https://www.samanthawoolven.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawoolven/ Simon Sinek talk referenced in the show "Start with why" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA You can check out this podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg Check out Solutium, and custom made animation explainer video production at http://solutiumexplainervideos.com/

Are you expecting fast results in your business? Do you change up your entire marketing strategies before they even have time to produce results - essentially burning money and throwing it down the drain? You shouldn't! In this episode I focus on the importance of having patience in marketing and using your content long enough to really justify its value. Content marketing needs time to work. So check out these thoughts and let me know if you had a similar experience. You can check out this podcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg Check out Solutium, and custom made animation explainer video production at http://solutiumexplainervideos.com/

Being an entrepreneur is not always blitz, sparkle and shiny, happy people dancing around the fire. Every business has its ups and downs, as well as periods when people have a really difficult time of getting out of bed, knowing that what they do is right. In this episode, I talk about that reality and how to get pass the rough period. If you like the podcast, please subscribe, comment or like and let me know if you have any questions. Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg?view_as=subscriber Check out Solutium, and custom made animation explainer video production at http://solutiumexplainervideos.com/

Outsourcing is a great way to scale business up or even down. It is a growing trend in the business world, which grew as more and more of the global marketplace became available, and through it - a more diverse, cost effective and flexible work force. Check out my view on the pros and cos of outsourcing and let me know what you think. Backwater Entrepreneur podcast is intent on building content that can help entrepreneurs and businesses no matter where they are by giving the insights, new knowledge and motivation that someone out there is doing the same hustle they are. Check us out on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg?view_as=subscriber Check out Solutium, and custom made animation explainer video production at http://solutiumexplainervideos.com/

In the first Backwater Entrepreneur Special, I interview Danny Creed, international business coach with over 20 years of experience in coaching businesses. We dive into a discussion on what it means to be an entrepreneur, mistakes, mindset, drive, productivity and tools that can help you take your business to the next level. Danny Creed is an international master business and executive coach, business consultant; trainer, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and international keynote and workshop speaker. (www.realworldbusinesscoach.com). He is a recognized expert in sales, management, and start-up business strategic planning. He is also a business turnaround and marketing specialist with a strong emphasis on business and personal development and growth strategies. Dan is an elite Brian Tracy International Certified Sales Trainer and a Founding Member Trainer and Facilitator of the Brian Tracy Global Corporate Training Courses and the Sales Success Intensive course. Coach Dan has over 13,000 recommendations and has logged to date over 14,000 business coaching, consulting and training hours. He has been involved with 14 successful start-up businesses and over 400 business turnaround challenges. Coach Dan is the unprecedented SIX-time recipient of the FocalPoint International Brian Tracy Award of Sales Excellence. Some of Coach Dan's career highlights include; o Created the first interactive sales training course, widely considered the precursor to Google o Pioneered the first digital health information system creating the largest digital health information content library ever created o Led sales organizations for market-leading NASDAQ technology companies, o Defined, developed, and directed international sales training o Successfully sold to C-level executives in health care, telecom and US federal government verticals including the Department of Defense o Presentation team on three separate companies' public offering o Internationally sought keynote and workshop speaker and trainer o Awarded by juried panel, the INAT Summit Mentor Laureate 2018 for most outstanding presentation, and the INAT Summit Man 2018, at the INAT Summit in Belgrade Serbia. Connect with Dan on the following links www.realworldbusinesscoach.com Linkedin.com/in/businesscoachdan Check out my agency Solutium, if you are looking for animation explainer videos: http://solutiumexplainervideos.com/ Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg

How long can you keep being a one man show in your business, and when is the time to build up your team? When that time comes, it's time to think about do you just want to outsource, hire temp workers or full time employees. In this episode we talk about scaling your business and the problems that trouble people when that time comes. Check out this podcast also in video form on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg?view_as=subscriber

Thinking about a great idea and moving from the drawing board to actually making it happen, for some people, takes ages. In a fast paced marketplace, where everything changes in a matter of days, months, you can't wait until you have everything made to perfection. That can cost you not only time and money - but also the entire business. In this episode we talk about why you need to move fast, keeping in mind not to be reckless. I also take a look at the reality of why will, even my business, need to change in 5-8 years (or sooner). Check out what we do now, at https://solutiumexplainervideos.com/ If you like this video, don't forget to like, share and subscribe. You can also check it out on SoundCloud or iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/hr/podcast/backwater-entrepreneur/id1373829014 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl2XA7ViamGG_UUCVn22rg?view_as=subscriber

Working to achieve a goal, no matter what that goal is, is something you should know already. Nothing comes without you first making an action towards it, and you are the only person that can change something in your life if you do not like it. Just wanting things to change is not enough. In this episode, you need to asses if this podcast and show is for you - because if you just bitch about your situation, without actually wanting to move your ass to achieve whatever it is, that is your goal (whether it's to have wealth, or just to give value), you probably will get no value from me. We need to recognize that only by doing things, sometimes hard things, is the only way to improve our business and our lives. .. If you'd like to check this podcast on iTunes, you can do it via this link: https://itunes.apple.com/hr/podcast/backwater-entrepreneur/id1373829014

Welcome to the first episode of the Backwater Entrepreneur, the show that guides your business through the backwaters to the global marketplace. In this episode, I will introduce you to the podcast and my idea for it.