026: Jim Palmer Shares His Journey From Unemployment to Massive Success
Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo
Mitch Russo
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you have struggled to get clients for your business, you'll love this episode. Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and host of Dream Biz Coach TV and Stick Like Glue Radio. Through challenges and hardships, from being unemployed to fighting cancer, Jim turned things around. Today, he has been married for thirty-three years and is a go-to marketing and business building expert and in demand coach.
In this episode, we will be discussing
- Information overload, why it matters and how to combat it
- The importance of practicing what you preach
- Long-term unemployment & combating cancer
- The start of Jim's first business and getting his first client
- Realizing that you can't do it all alone
- Internet marketing lessons
- Hiring for attitude
- Satisfying your customers
- Who in all space and time would Jim spend one hour with?
- The “Change the world” question
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Jim Palmer's Website
- Book: “Just Say YES”
- Book: “Think and Grow Rich”
- Book: “The New Psycho-Cybernetics”
- NoHassleNewsletters
- Dream Business Academy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the show for business owners, your first thousand clients. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm your host Mitch Russo and I've been an entrepreneur business owner, corporate executive, venture capitalist, and company founder for the last 30 years. |
| 0:18.0 | And if you are just joining us for the first time, the mission of my show is twofold to uncover your potential and guide you to |
| 0:26.0 | realizing it and provide you with the tools and the wisdom to get your own company |
| 0:31.5 | to a thousand clients and beyond. |
| 0:34.0 | My guests are leaders and business owners |
| 0:36.5 | who have been selected to share their hard-won wisdom |
| 0:39.7 | who want you to avoid the potholes of life and cruise smoothly to your goals. My guest today is a business |
| 0:46.6 | expert who has walked through the wall of fire, of failure, cancer, being fired, but emerged today as a prominent coach and business expert. |
| 0:57.0 | Jim Palmer, VP Marketing, lost his job 15 months of unemployment then came down found out he had cancer but that |
| 1:06.6 | cancer was a rebirth for Jim as he's going to tell us he started his first |
| 1:11.2 | business took a year to get his first paying client, and today he has created |
| 1:16.8 | one of the most powerful programs out there for businesses. |
| 1:20.4 | Jim, welcome to the show. |
| 1:22.1 | Thank you very much, Mitch, pleasure to be on your show. Thank you very much. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a pleasure to be on your show. |
| 1:25.0 | You got to love a show whose mission is to help entrepreneurs get their first 1,000 clients. |
| 1:31.0 | That's a big bold, R. B. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. be hag as they call it sometimes yeah yeah but you |
| 1:36.4 | know what it's amazing about that is that most people who get there have really |
| 1:41.6 | been through the mill and have really acquired that thing that we now |
| 1:45.3 | call wisdom the hard way. |
| 1:48.0 | So it's really true. |
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