Business Owners Freedom Formula With Paul Maskill

There are 1000's of great business books out there for small business owners and entrepreneurs. However, in today's episode I share with you my top 5 most recommended books...along with a bonus 6th book :)

Paul Edwards is an international bestselling author, entrepreneurial coach, and host of the Influencer Networking Secrets Podcast. Along with being a professional freelance content ghostwriter for influencers & experts, Paul's focus is on serving young men in tech and entrepreneurship. He is a veteran of the United States Army, a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma and a recovering insurance salesman. In his spare time Paul is an amateur Men’s Physique competitor, amateur theologian and Bible scholar.

I talk to business owners every day who have big goals. And then when I ask them "what's your plan to get there?" They go silent. A goal without a plan is simply a wish. If you don't have a plan and you're not proactively working that plan every day, your goal will never magically happen. You'll eventually get tired of reacting to fires all day and simply quit.

Rocky grew up as an immigrant to the United States after his parents immigrated from India. They were only allowed to bring $25 with them and start over in life. Growing up, most of the conversations in his family were about money. Spending most of his career outside of the financial industry, Rocky started to build wealth through old-fashioned savings & investing. After achieving financial freedom, Rocky set out to help others do the same – especially small business owners. What he realized was that most owners had no idea how to look at and understand their financial reports. At the same time, Rocky learned about Profit First and since then he has been helping business owners achieve financial success!

If you're like most business owners, you bootstrapped (and are still bootstrapping) your business. You know you need to market but your budget is pretty tight. So, what's the best use of your time and money? By leveraging your current customers! Show them how much you care, how appreciative you are of them choosing you and that you are their #1 advocate. Do everything you can do to serve them and treat them as if they are your only customer. With some patience, this will pay off. When you realize the product or service your business sells is a commodity and the customer experience is what will set you apart, you will win...big.

In 2009, Miha had four companies go bankrupt overnight: landing him $5 million in debt. Contemplating suicide to escape the pain as he looked over the balcony, he had a life-saving AH-HA moment. He realized that failure was a normal part of life: admitting to himself that he failed and to recognize he needed to stop blaming others and circumstances. This was the turning point when he made a choice to learn from his failures so he could do things differently in the future and to help others. Since then, he has climbed back to create a business and scaling it to 8 figures in less than a year. His life mission is to help people develop a healthy relationship with failure. Especially entrepreneurs.

You will regret not taking action more than taking imperfect action every time. There are things every day that we know we should be doing, we need to be doing, we want to do...yet we don't do them. We're scared of the "what ifs" We're scared of the worst case scenario. We're scared of what other people might think. We're scared of confrontation. We're scared of possibly upsetting someone. Yet whenever we actually do this "thing" , it's never as bad as we thought it would be.

Kris Ward is the founder of Win The Hour, Win the Day, both a platform and Amazon best-selling book, that helps entrepreneurs to systematically grow their business and, oh, by the way, enjoy a personal life too. After the loss of her husband, Kris returned full-time to the marketing & branding agency she had founded years earlier, only to find her business was thriving.  She began teaching clients the exact systems & process that had freed her up and helped her during that difficult time and changed their lives in the process.

In this instant gratification world, we expect instant results. What I do today, should give me results yesterday! Unfortunately, that's not the case. There is no overnight success. You won't feel the affects of what you do (or don't do) today for a few months. You don't just start your sales/marketing back up when things get slow. You do them consistently. You don't just start recruiting when your business just lost an employee. You recruit daily. Systems & processes only work with you do...and you do need to do your proactive activities daily...not just when you "need" instant results.

Zach Thomas is an entrepreneur, author, coach and speaker. He has started multiple companies and been featured in Newsweek magazine and on Good Morning America. He married his high school sweetheart, Christi, and they homeschool their seven children on their family farm where he grew up. As a Chick-fil-A franchisee, his restaurant has consistently produced top 20% performance metrics and he has developed multiple Chick-fil-A franchisees from his restaurant.

"I just can't find anyone that I can trust!" Said every business owner ever. Here's the truth - there are PLENTY of trustworthy folks out there. That's not the problem. The problem is you - the business owner. You don't trust yourself. Because you don't have an actual plan. In today's episode I share with you why not trusting employees is like saying you don't trust 2x4's when building a house.

Dusty Rollins specializes in income planning and tax-saving strategies for business owners, as well as college planning, social security maximization, investments, and debt/interest cost reduction. As owner and founder of Oxford Wealth Strategies, his goal is to help his clients design an income plan to make their money last as long as they do, as well as leave a legacy. From his boarding school days in Penang, Malaysia to his graduate studies in Oxford, England, traveling around the world has given him a global perspective on finances and life.

Too many business owners spend way too much time following their competition and complaining about them. They aren't certified! They charge too low! They are damaging our industry! You know who doesn't pay attention to their competition? Really successful businesses. Instead, they pay attention to their employees and customers. In today's episode, I share with you two reasons why you need to embrace competition...and how to crush the competition!

C-Roc is a motivator, facilitator, dynamic public speaker and a fierce friend and coach. At his core, he’s a grinder – just a guy who had a fire lit in his belly at an early age. That fire has led him to inspire others to see the greatness inside of themselves using past life events to fuel their fire He has spoken in front of thousands of real estate agents, showing them how to grow their business not only via traditional marketing methods, but also by using outside-the-box digital and social media marketing. He dives deep into his past during these talks to show how you can feed off good and bad experiences. His forthcoming book is titled, “What Are You Made Of?” C-Roc lives in Ocean City, MD with his wife Jennifer and their two children, Nicolas and Sophia

How do I stay focused and driven when things aren't going so well? This question comes from one of my Superfan listeners, Nikita. In today's episode I share with you two real life examples from my business journey of what my process is when I feel "stuck" and I'm not sure if I should keep going. In one example, I closed up shop. In another example, I quadrupled the business in 12 months. Same process, two different results.

Rick Cesari has helped major brands from GoPro to George Foreman build billion dollar brands through Brand Response advertising and strategic video marketing. His upcoming book Video Persuasion aims to put big brands’ proven video marketing techniques into the hands of small business owners, entrepreneurs, inventors, Amazon sellers and others. A bestselling author, speaker, consultant, and marketing & brand strategy guru, Rick is bringing his expertise to us today, sharing best practices in video marketing so you can successfully influence your customers and build your brand.

It's officially the new year and we're all fired up with the new things we're going to implement. That new strategy that is guaranteed to work. Our new big plans that will crush it. Those bright shiny objects. Yet, we are rarely intentional on things we should stop doing. We just try our hardest to keep up with all the new things on our plate. In today's episode, I share with you a strategy so you can finally start working less and start making more.

Thomas Rock Lindsay is on a mission to help other self-employed entrepreneurs solve the healthcare dilemma and transform their family budgets. As former C-Suite executives in the PEO industry, Tom and his business partners, have spent the past 2 years scouring the market for real solutions to the lack of affordability. What they found surprised them. Now, these insurance, HR, financial and technology professionals are sharing the answers with people like you. And when they aren’t doing that, they are helping small to mid-sized business owners lower their costs and increase their compliance.

What can you do to surprise your customer in a GREAT way? Most of the time, the only surprises customers get are bad ones: It's going to take longer than expected! It's going to cost more than originally quoted! But in today's episode I share with you a conversation from our mastermind about some great ways to surprise your customers in a much better way. What can you do that goes against all of the common complaints in your industry? Let's do that in 2020!

355 episodes in and winding down 2019, I wanted to share with you the four biggest lessons I learned this year from another year of podcasting. Three years in, the show is just getting started...and picking up big momentum! Tune in as I dive in to the 4 biggest lessons: 1. Every day that you keep going is another day that someone else quits. 2. The power of accountability. 3. Why relationships are so powerful. 4. You never know who's watching!