By Dino Tartaglia & Simon Hartley
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by the talented and educational hosts Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. Our hosts are a winning team with combined experience, research, and know how to help other business owners get where they want to go. Back Bedroom to Big Business is not an average business podcast that makes you feel inspired, but not motivated to action. You’ll be taking notes during their weekly episodes and planning how to implement what you’ve learned.
During this episode, Dino and Simon discuss part two of their series about building a global business without venture capital funding or significant investments. This episode will focus on case studies of extremely successful online businesses and how they attained their global status with little to no support.
The Businesses
Commonalities:
“Honestly, I couldn’t live without it, man.” (Grammarly)
“He’s not a magician or lucky. He just made some really good decisions and acted on them.”
“They are solving a problem that makes a real difference and has real value in the world.”
“Reinvesting to grow further.”
“Every dollar is a prisoner.”
“Return on spend is a great metric.”
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Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Dino Tartaglia's LinkedIn
Simon Hartley's LinkedIn
Simon's website - Be World Class
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast brought to you by our experienced, educated, and well-spoken hosts Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. This podcast puts out weekly episodes for business owners and entrepreneurs of both large and small businesses with great tips, tricks, strategies, stories, and blueprints to help along the way. Each episode is chock full of great information and often times a funny anecdote or two. Always truthful, Dino and Simon won’t lead you astray.
During this episode, our great hosts look back on their first season episodes one through eleven. These episodes span two separate series: Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs (episodes two through six) and Fatal Mistakes by Entrepreneurs (Episodes seven through eleven). What you’ll hear during this review:
“The value of any knowledge is only truly realized when you use it and apply it.”
“So what are you going to do now?”
“A great coach can facilitate coming up with a solution.”
“Connecting the dots isn’t so easy.”
“Everyone must build their own blueprint for success.”
“Continuous momentum is needed.”
“Any plan does usually survive first contact.”
“Use the three Cs: Clarity, confidence, cash flow.”
“How to build purpose, meaning, and passion.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Want more of Dino and Simon?
Dino and Simon's Website: Success Engineers
Dino's LinkedIn Profile
Simon's LinkedIn Profile
Simon's Website
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. During each weekly episode of this podcast, Simon and Dino provide massive insight, tips, and strategies for business owners no matter if you’re brick and mortar or online. Our hosts have run two series which have abundant information necessary for running your own business. The first series (episodes one through six) is Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs. The current series (episodes seven through eleven) are Fatal Mistakes by entrepreneurs.
During this episode, our hosts wrap up the Fatal Mistakes series with Toilet Roll aka Cashflow. Managing cash flow is both a science and an art in the world of business operations.
Listen for great information about:
“Turn over is vanity. Profit is sanity. Cashflow is king.”
“Is it economy that can be the cause of failure or is it the ignorance toward the fundamental rule of business: keeping your eyes on the numbers.”
“You can’t pay your supplier with profit.”
“You can’t buy a meal on margins.”
“If you have to pay your bills before you get paid . . . you’ve got a massive hole.”
“Cash is the oxygen of business - without it, it gets sick and dies.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Want more of Dino and Simon?
Dino's LinkedIn Profile
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Simon's Website
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by the lively, experienced, and encouraging coaches Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. Together these hosts have a slew of information about running a big business, small business, online businesses and much more. Episodes one through six focused on a series titled Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs and gave a blueprint that can be used by those getting started.
During this episode, our hosts touch briefly on last week’s episode (E009 Fatal Mistake Three - The Chase) and then dive headlong into today’s topic: Fatal Mistake Four - Wrong Trousers. What does ‘Wrong Trousers’ mean? Inevitably many business owners move into roles in their business that they’re not suited for and why outsourcing is sometimes absolutely necessary.
Listen for Four Key Roles, what they mean, and why they’re so important!
“The path of least resistance is to do what you enjoy or you’re good at (often the same thing), but your business needs more from you.”
“We work in and on our businesses.”
“The difference between management and strategy.”
“If you don’t do it then you don’t know it.”
“The key thing is to understand and fully embrace the entrepreneurial mindset and the employee mentality.”
“Recommendations and referrals convert.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Want more of Dino and Simon?
Dino's LinkedIn Profile
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Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by entrepreneurs and coaches Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. This podcast began with a series of episodes regarding the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. This episode is the third in our hosts second series titled Fatal Mistakes. This is no ordinary business podcast. There are no gimmicks and no false promises. No snake oil salesmen here. Dino and Simon are tried and true with years of success and experience to back them up. If you desire success in your business you’ve come to the right place.
In this episode, Dino and Simon dig into the thrill of the chase. This mistake affects not only small businesses and entrepreneurs but also big businesses such as Lehman Brothers and Enron. Simon makes a great point that understanding a bit of psychology and human behavior can go a long way in understanding any industry. We must understand our own mindset and our emotional investment to ensure that we’re making rational decisions.
Listen for great details:
“Lots of people . . . put an incentive out there, special knock down price for six months, but what you’ve done is undersold your next six months.”
“Some sales are bad volume. Not profitable sales.”
“Sustainable growth and sustainable profit are imperative.”
“The online entrepreneur has minimal overhead.”
“Just because the money is in your bank account doesn’t mean its yours.”
“Focus on both top and bottom line health.”
“I am the business. The business is me.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Dino Tartaglia's LinkedIn
Simon Hartley's LinkedIn
Simon's website - Be World Class
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business hosted by the experienced and lively duo Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. In this weekly podcast, Dino and Simon will give you tips, strategies, tricks, blueprints and much more to help you along your entrepreneurial/business journey. These hosts are masters in their fields and know that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all. They will share personal stories along with other well-known business owners’ stories to show how all of our paths have the same ups and downs.
In this episode, we get a recap of last week’s Fatal Mistake One - Obsession, before starting on today’s topic of the Need for Speed or the Microwave Mindset. Pushing for a forced result faster than the market can allow. This is different than having a sense of urgency. If you are negotiating a challenge or solving a problem the learning and development from that takes time to seep in. Listen to hear more on:
“The inability to understand whether a process is working or not.”
“If we only measure outcomes we’re probably measuring the wrong thing.”
“What we actually see is the tip of the iceberg when someone has made it. We don't see the ten or fifteen years of work.”
“Many people will fail because something didn’t work today or didn’t produce cash today.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Dino Tartaglia's LinkedIn
Simon Hartley's LinkedIn
Simon's website - Be World Class
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by the experienced entrepreneurs Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. During this weekly business podcast, Dino and Simon discuss the many route to being a successful entrepreneur. Both Simon and Dino have run successful businesses on their own. They’ve come together in this podcast with the hopes of helping you! Welcome to your new favorite podcast for entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Dino and Simon tackle the first in their series of five fatal mistakes, obsession. (See episodes 1-5 for the successful characteristics series.) Dino advises that failure to recover from some of these mistakes can cause your business to fail miserably. Before getting started with the topic for today, our hosts give a quick rundown about this series of mistakes.
Five Fatal Mistakes:
When asked what is different about their business people will often give a lot of emotion and not data. No one wants to hear that their business plan is the same, irrelevent, uneeded or set up to fail. You have to let your baby (business) grow up and not be blindly and emotionally obsessed then creating a blindspot. When you are in the process of making a decision are you using rationale or emotion?
“People describe their business as their baby.”
“We’re different and we care more . . . that’s exactly what every recruitment consultant I’ve ever heard says.”
“We don’t often operate logic and emotion at the same time.”
“Cant see the forest for the trees because you planted them.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Dino Tartaglia's LinkedIn
Simon Hartley's LinkedIn
Simon's website - Be World Class
Simon's YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Back Bedroom 2 Big Business podcast hosted by the inspiring coaches and entrepreneurs Dino Tartaglia & Simon Hartley. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, have just gotten started on your business journey, or have been in the game for quite a while this will quickly become your new favorite podcast. Dino and Simon are honest about their own journeys as well as giving tips and strategies from loads of other successful entrepreneurs in all different markets and niches. Far from a boring, monotone, by-the-numbers business podcast, Dino and Simon are both energetic and excited to help you succeed!
In this episode, Dino and Simon do a swift review of last week’s characteristic, in their six-part series, which was sharing passion and engaging others. Our hosts quickly move on to today’s topic and the final in this series of characteristics displayed by successful entrepreneurs: getting lucky or experiencing the lucky break. Being in the right place at the right time is not by chance. It means we’re in the right place often enough that the right time happens for us. Simon describes it as the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer effect. (soccer reference/explanation) Study for the game while sitting on the bench.
In the business world luck is engineered, it’s not simply good fortune/good luck.
Re-reviewing all the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs for a wrap-up:
“Success doesn’t happen by chance.”
“It’s not luck that drives success.”
“Making your luck then puts luck as a very powerful tool.”
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In this episode, Dino and Simon quickly sum up the last episode and its characteristic focus which was solving problems instead of simply seeking answers; then move on to discuss the fourth characteristic of amazing and wildly successful entrepreneurs which is they share their passions and they engage with others. Others can be employees, contractors, customers, fans - essentially anyone who is around.
Using this characteristic startup companies that are being performed out of a back bedroom or shed can compete with global giants on the business scale. Simon gives an example using Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox. Startup companies can win because they are formed by a concentrated pool of talented, passionate, and hardworking people all pulling together toward one goal/one solution.
How do we get the best people possible and make sure they will work well together? Ask this question instead: why would a really great person elect to leave a very safe corporate job with benefits and start working for a fledgling startup business?
The above-bulleted items unlock potential. The mission is what will attract people who want to help propel you forward into success because what you’re doing matters! This should not be labeled as a person’s attitude. It is their character! If you deliver your vision for your business or product and convey it with passion other people will step up. Others will engage you (as you should engage them) because they already have something you’re speaking to inside them.
Selling the mission and selling the vision
If you are lacking in passion or drive it is unlikely you will successfully engage others. Dino and Simon don’t mean engage like the Human Resources checkbox definition which means essentially keeping people business. Our hots mean sharing our visions and ideas with others ie employees, partners, suppliers and so on.
A lot of startups were obviously built on passion because many entrepreneurs have forgone salary in order to build a team and generate their product. Simon takes a moment to explain his new project regarding character analysis for professional sports teams. No one on his team is currently making any salary. They are being asked to invest! Why do they do it? Passion! Diven for success. They believe in the cause. They believe it will change lives. Simon takes a moment to discuss Airbnb - which relies completely on word of mouth. See a video where Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, describes it’s beginnings here.
How do these successful entrepreneurs make things happen? How do they get this high level of engagement and buy-in?
In the next episode, our hosts will discuss the final characteristic of wildly successful entrepreneurs! Are you feeling lucky?
“Sam Altman (Y Combinator) says we need to create loves, not likes”
“Fans will forgive far more than customers. Fans will rave about you more than customers.”
“Your biggest fans will also be your biggest critics. They will give you honest feedback.”
“We can’t function on our own. A team is needed.”
Visit our Website!
www.successengineers.co
Dino Tartaglia's LinkedIn
Simon Hartley's LinkedIn
Simon's website - Be World Class
Simon's YouTube Channel
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.