Build a Business You Could Sell with Creighton Wong

Update: 2020-07-08

Description

Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Creighton Wong about building the mindset needed to become an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!

What to expect in today’s show:

Introduction
- Meet Creighton Wong
- Running a business as a digital nomad
- A former attorney in California but switched paths to entrepreneurship when the economy dropped and jobs were hard to come by

Exponential Clients
- Helping businesses scale their operations
- More people are looking to take control of their financial situation through entrepreneurship
- There’s a gap between those businesses who are struggling from COVID and those who are exploding
- Consumers care about where they spend their money and who they spend it with

Life as an Entrepreneur
- Be really honest with yourself and your relationship with money - grit and perseverance are the keys to becoming a successful entrepreneur
- Build a business as if you’re going to sell or franchise it - create systems as you go to understand how your business works and operates
- The skills needed for entrepreneurship can be innate or learned so long as you have the desire to make it happen
- Entrepreneurs will trade a 40 hour week to work 100 hours a week so balancing family life can be a little challenging
- Learn to balance all aspects of your life as you start your entrepreneurial journey in order to be at peak performance for your business

The First Step is the Easiest
- The mindset to start day 1 is not the same that you need for every other day
- Pick the one thing you can do today to move the needle forward and make today a good day