Entrepreneurs on Fire John Lee Dumas of EOFire

Dr. Tom DuFore is a franchise expert and CEO of Big Sky Franchise Team, an award-winning consulting firm helping entrepreneurs franchise their businesses. He has consulted with or advised more than 700 franchisors over the last 20 years. He also hosts the Multiply Your Success podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Franchising lets you have economies of scale as you grow. You're able to get discounts with current vendors, suppliers and start providing your franchisees with better supplier pricing than they would otherwise have independently.
2. Make sure that you're working with someone that can help guide you through the process. It helps shorten the learning curve and gets you set up and running faster and avoiding a lot of these common mistakes that come along the way.
3. Franchising becomes that confidence elixir for a perspective or budding entrepreneur that maybe is a little too scared to start the business on their own or they would prefer to join with a network or a system that has proven model that they can learn, take and execute.
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Ben Butler is the Founder of Top Hat — the 7 year-old, 11-person creative agency with offices in Pittsburgh and St. Pete, FL. Fun fact: they once did a project entirely in exchange for beer!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Functioning Failure Disorder is not being able to recognize that, perhaps you are not getting into your goals as an entrepreneur.
2. You might be experiencing Functioning Failure Disorder if you look attractive on the front of your business, but behind the scenes there is a lot of deprivation and challenges going on.
3. Find a way to break yourself free to achieve the life that you want.
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Simon Severino is the CEO of Strategy Sprints, Europe’s leading remote Growth Advisory. The 34 Certified Strategy Sprint coaches do only one thing: Double the revenue of service-based businesses in 90 days. Simon also teaches Growth Strategy in select business schools and hosts the Strategy Show podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Your business will likely fail, even if you have a great solution, because technical evolution is going fast.
2. Make things simple and fun for your business.
3. Focus your time. Take the 15-minute bottleneck analysis with your team, bring your team together, and tell them what the team's focus for that week is.
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Mark Bowness hit rock bottom and then built a business that appeared in 200 media outlets and became a TV show. Mark teaches online business owners how to build tribes that increase their income and impact.
Top 3 Vlaue Bombs:
1. You experience rock bottom moments in life, business, and relationships. It forces you to stand in front of a mirror, look at yourself, and decide who you want to be - and what you want to achieve.
2. Fill your Trust Point Bank with prospects and grow your numbers. The evidence of your success is in your numbers.
3. Every business owner should launch a Facebook Group and turn it into a tribe.
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Stephen Cabral is a Board Certified Doctor of Naturopathy that specializes in helping people with chronic health conditions heal their bodies and go on to live the life they were destined for.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. No matter what health issue you are dealing with, someone just like you have overcome that.
2. Inflammation is one of the body's defense mechanisms. it turns on because it's seen something foreign in the body like a bacteria or virus. It turns on also as some type of repair and recovery for damaged tissues.
3. Optimizing inflammation overall is deciding what are the true underlying root causes that are creating the symptoms that you feel.
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Pat Flynn is a father, husband, and entrepreneur based in San Diego. He is a keynote speaker, WSJ bestselling author, tech startup advisor, YouTuber with 150M+ views, and host of the SPI podcast.
Matt Gartland is an online entrepreneur with 10+ years experience and 3 exits to date. Today he serves as the CEO of SPI Media. He’s also an advisor and investor in creator-focused tech startups.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. If you're not building community, you will be left behind straight up. The community doesn't have to be big. You can start simple.
2. No matter what happens with technology and how fast things change, the one thing will remain true with business and success and that is helping people and serving them.
3. Community building, it's not really about us as the creators. It's not so much about the information. It's about the connective tissue that binds the people together. And that's the really important shift.
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