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Matthew Paulson went from a blogger running a network of personal finance sites, getting "slapped" by Google, bouncing back and rebuilding a digital publishing company, MarketBeat.
Desmond Mason went from a professional NBA basketball player and Slam Dunk champion to hustling his way to becoming a successful artist. He shares the mindset of a true champion and how to go from winning in sports to winning in the cutthroat bus. Tony Cappaert went working full-time at Microsoft to co-founding Contactually, a saas CRM that helps professionals build authentic relationships with their customers. In 3-years Conctactually has gone from zero to 10, paid users a month, 50 employees. He shares his Hollywood formula and why he's stepping out of that business to apply what he's learned to crush it on Amazon, self publishing his own series of.
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The point of the million-dollar, one-person business is that it gives you choices—whether to keep it small while earning a great income or continue growing it. Often, these entrepreneurs mentioned to me that The 4-Hour Workweek gave them valuable ideas on how to extend what one person or a team of partners could do before they hired employees.
Here are some of their stories, which illustrate how they applied the lessons of The 4-Hour Workweek —and the incredible results they achieved in their lives because of that. Nadler never planned to be an entrepreneur. He studied business management and technology and then built a career as a project manager for one of the top trading units at a multinational bank. It was a good job that seemed to justify the college tuition his parents had paid and enabled him to support his young family. And yet, as Nadler was talking almost six years ago with his oldest daughter about the importance of doing what you love, his words sounded hollow.
He realized he was not following his own advice. What did excite him—and had led to his career in project management—was improving his own productivity and helping the people around him do the same. Nadler decided it was time to actually follow the advice he had given his daughter and soon started a side business, designing and producing his own planners and selling them online. His goal was to create a side income by creating a truly automated business that would give him the freedom to choose to work—or not—on any given day. An online store, he realized, was the quickest and easiest route to doing that.
I was inspired to hack the system, to question the status quo and see if I [could] pull it off myself—and behold, it works. Instead, they focus you on the essential outcomes each week that will move you toward your primary goals. Many people loved his idea and bought the planners. Nadler acted on what he had learned by turning to the site Splitly. This saves him hours of manual work. At the time, they were just 25 and neither had any experience in retail, but they decided they wanted to hit a very concrete goal: Reading The 4-Hour Workweek helped them find the courage to leave behind traditional careers and build a lifestyle they love.
To make a smooth transition from their traditional careers, the Arnebergs eased into entrepreneurship gradually. Both love living an active lifestyle—Ben was on the Air Force parachute team, while Camille is a certified personal trainer—and they initially tried selling compression sleeves a running accessory on the internet on the side. When that business did not take off, they began researching other products they could sell on the giant trade marketplace Alibaba. Even if it all went down the tube, they reasoned, the experience would be valuable.
The couple opted to launch their site on a giant ecommerce marketplace, reckoning that this would give them the exposure they needed quickly. They also outsource order fulfillment, relying on their retail platform to handle this. Another example of how they outsource is by relying on a private label manufacture overseas who customizes their products for them, instead of trying to become manufacturers themselves. The results of those sessions have been powerful. Last year they launched a second business on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
It sells the CubeFit TerraMat, an ergonomic mat for people who use standup desks. None of this would have happened if they had not made an active commitment to outsourcing and staying focused on what really matters.
Dan Faggella, 29, is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Faggella earned enough money to support himself in graduate school by running a small martial arts gym he owned in his early twenties, but he sold it by age 25 with the goal of creating a scalable, location-independent internet business.
In he launched Science of Skill , a subscription-based ecommerce site that initially sold online courses in martial arts. As a fighter, Faggella, who has a slight build, had achieved some renown among martial artists for a fight in which he beat a much larger competitor. Many people found his matches instructive.
Growing a business without hiring traditional employees and finding the right communication rhythms with his team. I knew that was going to be the way to fuel the big game. To find remote contractors for tasks such as copywriting and web support, Faggella turned to the freelance platform oDesk, now part of Upwork.
He built a team of four reliable contractors. Faggella also learned another key lesson from The 4-Hour Workweek: Faggella found it helpful to learn that Ferriss only checked his email twice a day and made conscious decisions about when he would communicate with his team and how often. It became self-evident to me that those things were manageable. By establishing similar communication rhythms to communicate with team members in other time zones such as his developer and designer in India, Faggella protected the time he needed to focus on big-picture strategizing that helped him grow Science of Skill.
The direct result was that he gradually expanded his offerings beyond the martial arts world to offer products related to self-protection and self-reliance. An ongoing curriculum for self-defense and martial arts techniques became one of his biggest products. That expansion helped him make the leap from six-figure to seven-figure revenue prior to hiring employees. As he got ready to sell, Faggella hired one full-time and one part-time employee to run it. He understood that he needed to demonstrate to potential owners that someone else could run the business successfully without his involvement.
That sale helped him fund his current startup, Tech Emergence , a media and market research firm in San Francisco that is focused on artificial intelligence, a subject that fascinates him. Sol Orwell, 32, who lives in downtown Toronto, has grown his business, Examine. For years, Orwell experimented with a variety of businesses—online gaming, domain names, local search, and daily deals—until he found the ideal approach to make it happen.
One thing that finally freed Orwell to achieve his goal was reading The 4-Hour Workweek. It showed him how to cut the leash to traditional office work and create the freedom to travel. Looking for a way to achieve his own liberation, Orwell realized he needed to put systems in place to free him from daily responsibilities that might otherwise prevent him from traveling.
I really dove into the concept of leveraging, through both delegating and by doing those highly uncomfortable things that you advise Tim that so few folks do. Learn the shocking truth. Really really got a lot of value from it. I knew how to build a network and mobilize people to a cause. I couldn't wait to get up, and hated to go to bed at night. Deiss, is best known as a marketing expert, but in this interview you'll discov.
Thanks to income from his various ventures, being able to pay for travel was not an issue for him. Although Orwell was experienced in delegating work to contractors from his previous ventures, reading The 4-Hour Workweek helped him realize he needed to step out of the day-to-day completely at Examine. The key to pulling this off was working with the right contractor.
By reading about how they grew their businesses over the years, our has transformed the business into a multimillion-dollar empire with its Today, I design both home and business environments, while also advising the business . "As I built my online network, I bumped into some internet marketing. How I Built A Million-Dollar Business In 12 Months I decided to perform an experiment: I went home and pulled out a pair of yellow-tinted ski.
Orwell, who had initially gotten interested in nutrition while losing weight, had gotten to be friendly with a fellow contributor to the fitness community on Reddit and was impressed by the way in which his buddy shared his expertise with others on the site. Orwell had soon enlisted his friend as a contractor to run Examine.
Orwell found the arrangement worked beautifully when it came to indulging his love of travel. To make sure the site had credibility, Orwell also hired a group of expert contractors, such as PhDs, to evaluate the research on various nutritional supplements and write reports on them.
As the company grew and expanded into new products, such as its Research Digest , a newsletter aimed at professionals, Orwell brought in another equity partner. Though his 2 eventually moved on to other pursuits, the company continues to thrive and grow. Given that he has structured the company in a way that he does not have to micromanage everyone, Orwell still has the freedom to travel and give back to charity as much as he wants. Jayson Gaignard founded and runs MasterMindTalks , a Toronto-based firm that brings together a carefully selected group of entrepreneurs in a by-application-only annual event.
The company, which Gaignard runs with some help from his wife, an assistant who is a contractor, and very recently a content and community manager, could easily expand. About 4, to 5, people apply annually to participate in the event for entrepreneurs. Gaignard has made a conscious decision to keep the business to the size it is as a direct result of reading The 4-Hour Workweek.
He read the book in , when he had been an entrepreneur for about three years, and recalls vividly how life-changing the story of the Fables of Fortune Hunters was for him at the time. At the pier, he meets a Mexican fisherman with a small boat who leads a bucolic life with plenty of time to spend with his family and friends in the small community. The businessman encourages the fisherman to scale up his operations by buying more boats and fishing more so he can eventually expand his operation into the US, do an IPO, and cash out a rich man.
It fundamentally shifted my view on scale. I had a desire to build a big business at that time but never questioned it. At the time Gaignard was running a business called TicketsCanada, a tickets retailer in Toronto. He ended up in a tough financial position where he was considering bankruptcy. He eventually decided to close TicketsCanada. Gaignard started holding dinners where he would invite eight interesting people, embracing the idea of developing his network. Gaignard was new to events, but now that he was committed to building a new way of living for himself, he decided he would figure things out as he went along.
He was delighted when the event proved to be very successful. That event morphed into his current business, MasterMindTalks, the following year. Keeping the business small allows him plenty of time to spend with his wife and their young daughter—and he has no intention of letting go of the perspective he gained from The 4-Hour Workweek.
Walton learned the business from the ground up in an early job as a retail clerk at store where he sold security cameras and other gadgets, and later at an online store he ran for another entrepreneur. In the fear-setting exercise Ferriss created to break free of workaholism that was keeping him from traveling, he decided to spell out exactly what nightmare living his dream would cause—the worst-case scenario that would result. Walton still has his notes from that exercise in a legal pad. He knew what inventory would sell and avoided inferior products that would require a lot of time spent on returns and customer service.
Not long after the one-year mark, the company was growing so fast that Walton hired an employee to handle customer service, then hired two more. That might seem to be a good position to be in, but as Spy Guy continued to grow, Walton was surprised to find himself struggling with depression and struggling to stay interested in the business. Start using supercharged email receipts today. Get Started With Conversio. If you are interested, please send an email to info 7figureentp. Hosted By Two of the industry's best. Tyler Devin After a horrific car accident in , Tyler was motivated to forge his own path in life and find a way to create wealth for himself and his family.
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