Becoming Great.com

Frustration is a big part of starting a company. A part that gets a lot less attention than success and profits.

Today has been a frustrated day. Our plan was to have clear and great goals for 2020 and simply record an episode about them. That did not happen.

Instead it became an episode in frustration about how to set goals? Are goals even worth setting in a young startup?

How to deal with frustration when it comes up? Is it good to show it for the team or is it better to hide it?

If you feel a lot of anger in your life, what can you do to deal with that?

This is a very raw and honest episode about the feelings of running a company when things are not always going according to plan.

What is an affiliate 2019? Who is this business model for? What are the ups and downs with entering the affiliate industry? Find out the TIPS you MUST know before starting your affiliate project!

Erik Bergman has done lots of different kinds of affiliate and in all different sizes. Starting with a small affiliate business in the basement of his friend's parents, ending with a 400 employee affiliate business on the Nasdaq Stock exchange.

Are you making common mistakes when setting goals? Falling into the same traps we have fallen into? If you are doing these mistakes you run a big risk of both losing your energy and your motivation as well as completely missing to reach your targets.

This was a spontaneous episode. We had such interesting conversations when we started planning our goals that we just decided to turn on the microphones and record the dialogue. We feel it became one of your best episodes yet.

One thing that it's rarely spoken about is the importance of enjoying the goals. How much are you following your goals vs. following your inspiration? How likely is it that you kill your inspiration with your goals?

How can you set your goals to make sure you build great habits? How can you set your goals to make sure they give you energy instead of taking it?

Our goal with this episode is for you to set the right goals for 2020, make sure you can reach them and that you enjoy the ride of getting there as well.

We have had some surprising successes and embarrassing failures in 2019. In this episode, Emil is interviewing Erik giving an overview of the year that has passed. It started as a vague idea, but how did it turn out? How much money did we actually make?

Erik and Emil are personal development junkies. These are the most IMPORTANT INSIGHTS from 2019. After a 2018 of pain and struggles, we have rising from the ashes and take us on 2019 with power and passion and this is the reflection and reaping the rewards of what we have learned.

TEAL SWAN SEMINAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXMOxzmAm8

Today our colleague was worried that he would get very bad news from an ultrasound. Still, he put a smile on his face, pretending, everything was OK.

This is a personal episode that highlights what kind of relationships we want to have with our team at Great.com and why that is valuable in any business.

NO is only two letters, at the same time it's probably the most powerful and the scariest word in the entire English language.

How and why to say no? We have a lot of good ideas, implementing them to reality is something different. This is a story about our challenges.

How far can you take the idea of charity? Is it morally correct to save people if the consequence is that others have to suffer?

Great.com is a casino marketing company where all profits will go to charity. In this episode, Emil Ekvardt is challenging the founder of Great, Erik Bergman, with thoughts and ethically challenging questions.

Erik Bergman founder of Catena Media, a company that went for 0-400 employees in 7 years. During that journey he worked with great teams and amazing leaders - today we will look into the top 13 tips he learned about leadership on the way.

What do you do when someone knocks on the door and says "I can make you 300 000 euros"? That pretty much happened to us this month and it got us jumping.

We have also lost a first teammate. It's always difficult separating with someone and this was no exception.

Last but not least we will also talk about some surprising updates on the commercial side of Great.