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#312: How a "whatever it takes" attitude helped Michael achieve a million dollar business

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8811 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Michael Beard's story is one of persistence. He started his business back in 2008 and slowly built it to where he recently hit $1 million in sales in a year.  He has endured his fair share of hardships including 2 floods and an account suspension, but he has simply kept going. You'll love his story of doing "whatever it takes" to build his business. All resources mentioned on the podcast are found at https://silentjim.com/podcast
 
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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the silent sales machine radio podcast. I'm your host for this episode,

0:06.5

Ryan Rieger. Today we're chatting with a legends member. He's a friend of mine. His name is Michael

0:11.9

Beard. He has a whatever it takes attitude. And he has had to employ that to get over the obstacles

0:20.7

that he's had in his business.

0:22.1

But he recently just hit the $1 million mark for sales in a year.

0:27.2

So this is an awesome episode.

0:28.7

He's got a lot of practical information on what he's doing in this business, how he got there,

0:34.2

some of the things he's had to overcome.

0:36.4

So this will be our encouragement to you guys.

0:38.1

Here's my interview with Michael. All right, Michael, welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio.

0:44.5

So glad to have you on, my friend. Well, thank you, Ryan. It's an honor that you would ask me

0:49.4

to do something like this. It's really cool. Thank you so much. Yeah, well, you posted in our legends group that you

0:56.8

had hit a million dollars in sales for the year, which is incredible, by the way. Most people don't

1:03.1

even dream of those numbers. So I want to dig into that, but that's what prompted me. So

1:08.3

congratulations, first of all, for hitting that number. That is

1:11.1

awesome. Well, thank you. Thank you. It means a lot, and we were super excited, you know, to hit that.

1:16.8

And our team was, you know, kind of watching, you know, for that to happen. And day by day, we knew

1:22.3

were you hitting refresh on the... Yeah. I think you could see on the post. Somebody made the comment that my battery was dying.

1:30.3

So, yeah.

1:31.2

I mean, it's truly an honor, you know, to be here this morning with you on this.

1:34.8

And, you know, over the years I've heard, you know, even starting off, you know,

1:38.8

you hear all the success stories.

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