016: Mike Ayalon on Following His Passion

Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo

Mitch Russo

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

5.0 • 104 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mike Ayalon is the CEO of Greek University, an educational platform that has inspired countless institutions across North America in identifying, understanding and resolving current social issues.

As a successful motivational speaker and entrepreneur, Mike has headlined over 300 presentations across 100 college campuses such as Sexual Assault Prevention, Hazing Prevention and Campus Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Strategies for Managerial Excellence, and Diversity in Student Organizations.

Mike's strong technological background and varied professional experience in building companies from startup to over $25 Million in annual sales gives him a profound understanding of the ways these issues penetrate educational structures today. Mike is a TIPS-certified trainer and the former Executive Director of Sigma Pi Fraternity with 125 chapters and over 100,000 members nationwide.

In this episode, Mike and I discuss:

Filling in the gaps and the start of his entrepreneurial journey
Lessons learned from building websites and doing SEO
Growing client base from the scratch
Importance of getting niche specific
Changing roles and going after his own dreams
Building systems so the business can run without you
College years, hazing and misconceptions about it
Dealing with the pain from the past
His journey to 1000 clients
What he is doing that is changing the world

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0:00.0	You're listening to your first thousand clients with Mitch Russo.
0:08.0	What would happen if we took an expert in sexual assault prevention, hazing prevention, campus
0:18.0	safety, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, strategies for managerial excellence, and this person was
0:27.0	available to present to schools all over the country. Do you think we could save some lives? Do you think we can
0:34.6	prevent some terrible things from happening? Well I want to introduce you to
0:39.0	Mike Aelon. Mike, did I pronounce that correctly? I want to introduce you to Mike Eylon of Greek University who has built an educational
0:49.8	platform that has inspired countless institutions across North America in
0:55.0	identifying and understanding and resolving current social issues.
1:00.0	Mike, welcome to the show, thrilled that you're here.
1:03.2	I can't wait to hear about your journey, your work.
1:06.7	Tell me more, how did you start?
1:08.8	Great, thank you very much for having me, Mitch.
1:11.0	I'm an entrepreneur, lifetime New Yorker, and I started out working for
1:16.5	a Cisco Premier partner in New York City and I was chief financial officer of that particular organization.
1:23.7	We sold Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, all kinds of network infrastructure
1:28.4	and specifically refurbished network infrastructure when some of the companies were going bust in New York City in the early 2000s and
1:38.8	Essentially kind of built that I started having kids and I recognized that I wasn't getting home from New York City until
1:54.8	nine, ten o'clock at night during the week and really only seeing the kids on the weekends.
1:59.0	So I decided to start my second company, which was a web design and search engine optimization
2:04.1	company right from home and then that company started growing like crazy
2:07.7	just getting tons of requests for web design and search engine optimization help
2:12.3	from all over the country.
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