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Entrepreneurs on Fire

How to achieve explosive growth in sales all with integrity with Ian Altman

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ian grew his first business to value beyond $1 billion. He's the bestselling co-author of Same Side Selling, keynote speaker, and host of the Grow My Revenue Business Cast.

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Focus on the results your business gives rather than business as a resource.

2. Own up for difficult situations even if they are not your fault.

3. Use a process that's easily understandable for your clients.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's Shaken Fire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to episode 1925 of EO Fire, where I

0:10.3

chat with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week.

0:15.8

Productivity, discipline, focus, those are my three greatest strengths in Fire Nation.

0:20.8

They can be yours to simply visit themasteryjournal.com.

0:26.4

Master all three skills in 100 days.

0:29.4

Now let's chat with today's featured guest Ian Altman.

0:32.7

Ian, are you prepared to ignite?

0:35.7

Ignite away my friends.

0:38.0

Yes.

0:39.0

Ian grew his first business to value of beyond one billion dollars.

0:44.1

He's the best selling co-author of same side selling.

0:47.4

He's also a keynote speaker in host of the Grow My Revenue Business Podcast.

0:53.4

Ian, take a minute and fill in some gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse

0:57.8

of your personal life.

0:59.1

Well, I live in the Washington, DC area.

1:01.5

I have two dogs, two children, and a wife I don't deserve.

1:06.1

That's the biggest thing people need to know.

1:08.9

In my prior business, I used to fly over 175,000 miles a year because we had licensees

1:15.2

and joint ventures all around the world.

1:17.3

Now as a keynote speaker, I fly almost as much, but it's a totally different lifestyle.

1:22.6

I'm excited to talk about maybe your transition from where you were to where you are now today.

1:28.6

What I really want to get into right now, when you consider your area of expertise, what

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