Aflevering Secret Weapon To High Performance For Entrepreneurs – James Schramko

Vandaag het gesprek met James Schramko. James is based in Sydney Australia and has started, developed and sold multiple successful businesses.   A passionate father, investor, surfer, husband, coach, mentor and lover of freedom, James excels in making the complex world of business simple so that your quality of life can improve.   When James started online he was a General Manager working with Mercedes-Benz commanding a large team of employees in a multi-million dollar business by day and an online marketer by night.   Since buying his first laptop in 2005 James has sold well over TEN million dollars online.   Author book ‘Work less - make more’   We talked about how James uses his favorite way of creating content to get him new clients continuously. How he has added really short videos to his channels. With smart outsourcing creating all this content cost James not much time and he loves doing it.   James explains the importance of clear numbers to track the effectiveness of what you are doing in your business. How you can increase the results by improving just two things.   James gave some background of the size of his business. Also, he gives some background on the diversity of activities he is doing to be financially secure and why this is important.      Don’t forget to get his book Work Less - Make More on Amazone or via SuperFastBusiness.com And of course, he shares the secret weapon for high performance as an entrepreneur. Enjoy the insights with James. Let’s get started… Show Notes Episode 167 https://www.superfastbusiness.com/ https://twitter.com/jamesschramko https://www.silvercircle.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesschramko Transcriptie: Erno: Hello and welcome to James Schramko. James is based in Sydney Australia and has started, developed and sold multiple successful businesses. Welcome James! It is so great to have you and I admire the way you grow businesses. Your life seems so balanced between family, surfing and your work. James: It is not accidental, I come from quite some time of crafting the skill of designing your life around the things you want to do and creating a business that can actually do that. Erno: Your number 1 priority is to get your surf in each day. James: That is true, I do plan my surf as a daily ritual, it teaches me a lot about life.  It is important to have some time away from devices and get back to basics. Spend time in nature, it is very calming and very good for your business as well as you come back recharged. Fun but also a great excersice. Erno: How much time do you think you need to replenish every day? James: In the USA for example, the average adult watches 6 hours of video a day. That is a lot. I need at least an hour a day. In some cultures, people are a little more outdoorsy. If you do not leave your house daily, I would be concerned. Just go for a walk, it is good to go barefooted. I don't like my feet constrained. Erno: Interesting, I do run a lot but with my shoes on. I think that people in the Netherlands are quite outdoorsy, it is a small country so we use the bicycle a lot. To get back to your business, you have a lot of things automated or outsourced. That was a choice for you. However, when you started working in cars, you worked a lot of hours. James: I did, at one point, I did the car dealership by day, where I was general manager and my own company by night. I was teaching myself how to market online. I saw the opportunity but I did not yet know how. The contrast was interesting, by day, everyone else was doing al the work and I was doing everything. It was progressing slowly and understood that I needed to hire people to do certain tasks. Then I started growing, with a support desk and someone who wrote articles. I still have a small team of 5 fulltime people. It allows me to focus on the things that I am good at.