This week's interview is with entrepreneur and speaker Kim Barret. Kim is the founder of a lead generation agency called “Your Social Voice” and he is also the host of The Kim Barret Podcast Show. Let’s dive into his story of how he grew up from selling chocolate bars to his classmates in school into a successful entrepreneur.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Kim's Origin Story (1:53)

 

• Kim tells his story about advertising at 15 years old

• Kim talks about his tropical fish breeding business (5:18)

• Kim talks about his childhood days where he finds opportunities to make a profit (8:04)

• Buying chocolate bars in bulk and selling it to kids at his school

• Kim talks about being in University and how he got into social media marketing (19:28)

• Kim talks looking for jobs that require experience

• Kim went into Facebook Marketing and Affiliate Marketing

• Kim talks about getting his first social media client

• Kim's transition from working for his clients to starting his own business (14:54)

• Kim talks about his University days (17:14)

• Kim's advice when deciding to go to college or not (19:10)

• "You don't have to love what you do in order to love your life" (21:03)

• Kim shares his story of failure (Bringing in the wrong clients) (23:19)

• Creating around 4,500 ad variation

• Firing his clients

• Asking for help

• The most impactful advice given to Kim (31:01)

• Which is more important, Knowledge, Action, Relationships, or Luck, and why? (32:33)

• The Age of Information Overload

• Kim's advice to people learning new knowledge but can't take action (35:05)

• Unsubscribe to the unwanted email list

• Be careful with your time on social media

• Lightning Segment (37:22)

 

Tweetable Quotes: 

"You can believe that you know something but unless you've done it, you don't actually know it" - Kim Barrett

"A problem shared is a problem halved" - Kim Barrett

"Never worry alone" - Kim Barrett

"You don't have to love what you do in order to love your life" - Kevin Mills

 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

 

• J Abraham - Preeminence

• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

 

 

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