Welcome to the 10-minute Entrepreneur Podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and

aspiring entrepreneurs, taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean

Castrina.

All right, Sean Castrina with the 10-minute entrepreneur podcast.

These are the teaching editions.

I love these.

I love interviewing founders, but I love these because this is where I get to work with you.

The goal of the podcast is to equip, encourage, and educate entrepreneurs.

This is where I educate you.

This is where I give you the information necessary to in fact, you know, succeed as a startup.

All right? Just let my dog out. She's driving me crazy here in my office. So let's get going.

What I'm talking about today is your four tips to making money from day one in your business.

This is a unique concept that I have. I expect to make money from day one in your business. This is a unique concept that I have.

I expect to make money from day one. My companies statistically have always made money within the first week.

Well, Sean, how do you do that? Well, okay, I haven't had a billion dollar company yet.

I haven't had a company that needed, you know, a million dollars,

you know, millions of dollars of seed money. They're not the companies that I'm attracted

to. I'm attracted to service companies. So if I can stack the deck where we provide a service

on day one, you pay us $100 an hour for, for A, it costs me this much money for my employee to provide that service is B, there's a margin between A and B, I make money on C, and I make that on day one. Let me go through that because this is why you got to find your niche. You got to find out what works for you. There's some guys, maybe it's online. That's where they make their money. That's fine. Okay. My brain doesn't get around it. I love online and I like using it as a as a vehicle to attract business. I see it as an incredible vehicle for marketing. I own a digital marketing company. I think it's the best digital marketing company in the state of

Virginia. And I definitely think it'll be the biggest. So I love it, but I don't, it's not,

how do I explain it? I still make money within the service end of digital marketing. See,

my understanding of businesses, I love service businesses. Well, Sean, why do you love service businesses?

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