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Yanik Silver is a serial entrepreneur although he still considers himself a ‘techno dunce’. Starting from his one-bedroom Currently his most important mission is impacting 1,000,000 young entrepreneurs (ages 13-23) to start or grow their business by 2020 and to get his 2½ year old daughter, Zoe, potty trained. |
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It’s been incredible to see so many new companies and products adding charitable components to what they’re doing or even go all the way and back that into their ‘DNA’ as a socially conscious but still capitalistic company. I love it! Sometimes though you wonder if companies might be doing this just for the PR value and not really for authentic reasons that resonate with their brand, their customers or the owners. For instance, I recently came across a campaign for Kentucky Fried Chicken to donate 50 cents for every pink bucket of chicken they sell. Hmmm…. While I’m all [...]
This past weekend in Baltimore, I attended part of the Baltimore Startup Weekend. It was really cool! Once I heard the concept — I’ve wanted to check it out and since my brother, Adam, was going to be part of it that was good enough for me. Here’s the deal… You put together about 100 ambitious and aspiring entrepreneurs with a mixture of tech and non-tech skills. Then have them pitch their ideas for 60-seconds each on Friday night with the 20 best ideas, as voted on by the group, get selected to be developed. Everyone divides up into teams [...]
Team Maverick winning the NFTE Ignite Spring Break challenge A few weeks ago I spent the week working with students from the local DC-area NFTE group. (NFTE is the National Federation for Teaching Entrepreneurship). These high school students had given up their Spring Break in order to help consult me and 2 other entrepreneurs on our business challenges. The challenge I laid out for them was around our stalled Maverick1Million.org platform for young entrepreneurs. I got a lot of great advice from Sabera, Ivonne, Dion, Autumn, Kalan, Nytiah, Shahara and Percell (thanks guys!) and now I want to take it [...]
I spent the morning with Sam Carpenter, author of “Work the System“. It’s a book I was exposed to by one of our Maverick1000 members on our South Africa World Cup Expedition. I’ve read Michael Gerber’s E-Myth book and loved the point of working ‘on your business not in your business’ but there was never really an explanation on how to do just that. Sam’s material was the first resource that actually made me feel like I could create more stream-lined systems out of our operations. Check out this quick 20-minute of Sam and I hanging out in my library [...]
Just back from Park City, UT for the first-ever Maverick Family Freedom event held over July 4th weekend. It’s the first time ever Maverick families came together for a long weekend combining totally unique experiences and activities with business sessions for the children and development sessions for the parents. Not only did we have the children (ages 6-19) learn about business but they actually participated in running different ventures. There were 2 product businesses selling July 4th related products and one service business selling photos with Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty. They were given blueprints like this: Then they were [...]
As smart marketers we have to ensure our customers are always excited about “What’s next?” and creating that feeling of fun anticipation. An easy way to stop being boring is to use out-of-the-norm events for your marketing. A lot of people might do sales or events based on typical calendar dates like Christmas or New Years but I doubt many of us do ‘Flag Day’ sales, right? Take a look at this example from a few weeks ago: Betabrands is a somewhat quirky brand that started with ‘cordaround’ pants. (Those are corduroy pants that are horizontal instead of vertical.) So [...]
If you’ve just about given up on the idea that you can create a product that sells – this is for you. Let me share a quick story with you that you might relate to… My personal trainer, Jeff, and I have been working out for 10+ years. In that time he’s seen me build my online businesses and develop quite a few hot-selling product in several marketplaces. In fact, way back in 2001 or 2002 we actually co-developed a product called “Get Fit While You Sit”. I had the idea that there could be something for people sitting at [...]
Need a quick favor… Working on a new book for Entrepreneur Press called Maverick Startup: 11 X-factors to bootstrap from zero to 6-figures (and beyond) I think it’ll be coming out early next year. The publisher and I are using crowdsourcing to design the new cover. (btw – if you haven’t tried 99Designs.com you should consider them. I’ve used them on a lot of projects and always pleased.) We had the founder, Matt Mickiewicz, at a previous Underground – he was incredible. If you could take 1 minute and cast your vote – I’d appreciate it. And if you leave [...]
See if this sounds familiar? You look at your bank account or monthly sales report online and think, “Oh crap! I better get some customers in the door!” So off you go on a frantic, frenzied pace focused on getting new customers and pushing the numbers up. Phew! Then you go to work fulfilling on what you just sold and sit back until the next time (a month, 2 months, 3 months from now) when the sales curve dips again. Then it’s back on the treadmill again… It’s this inconsistent roller coaster of sales that drives you crazy, right? And [...]
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See if this sounds familiar? You look at your bank account or monthly sales report online and think, “Oh crap! I better get some customers in the door!” So off you go on a frantic, frenzied pace focused on getting new customers and pushing the numbers up. Phew! Then you go to work fulfilling on what you just sold and sit back until the next time (a month, 2 months, 3 months from now) when the sales curve dips again
If you’ve just about given up on the idea that you can create a product that sells – this is for you. Let me share a quick story with you that you might relate to… My personal trainer, Jeff, and I have been working out for 10+ years. In that time he’s seen me build my online businesses and develop quite a few hot-selling product in several marketplaces.
