Light that spark fire nation jolly doom is here and welcome that episode 1461 of EO fire

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self mastery journal dot com and now let's chat with today's featured guest Tony Greb Meyer Tony are you prepared to ignite baby I'm fired up yes Tony is a founding owner of ship offers

one of ink five thousands fastest growing privately held companies he hosts a weekly podcast titled entrepreneur unplugged the podcast

the podcast focus on mindset passion in a growing belief in business and life he lives with meaning and purpose and strives to be of service every day

to take a minute fill in some gaps in that in tone give us a little glimpse of your personal life man I love it I am a father of two amazing teenage boys been happily married 18 years

just live every day with passion and you know I think the most important thing is is that I'm here for a reason and I'm discovering that every single day wow well you've discovered some things that you're pretty good at and I kind of want you to expound upon one of your main areas of expertise

and then Tony within that area of expertise give us two value bombs share with us two things that you think that we need to know as entrepreneurs yeah I love it so I've got over 30,000 hours in sourcing of products

and the fulfillment industry consider myself one of the strategic partners to help clients really move past just like hey I need another something to sell I teach everybody that I work with you're not you're not a vendor you have meaning and I'm going to help you discover what that looks like so you can sell a product and you can do something really great with your life

a couple I think value bombs that it would be like huge for me is I think entrepreneurs need to do one thing and that is sell first and pay later and that's what we did we created a company around that whole premise we coach our clients you know how to keep cash in their pockets longer

how to pay for products and services in advance and why would you ever want to do that and then really you can learn about our on demand pay as you go system so we coach you through that

and then also experience and reputation when every single time customer retention is more important it's not just a number of percentage we measure happy clients equal amazing friendships and I think our mission in life is to do business with our friends but they just start out as clients

experience and reputation wins every single time I mean fire nation just absorb that because it's powerful beyond measure now Tony you are staying cutting edge keeping your finger on the pulse brother like you're an energizing guy was something you change your mind about in the last six months meaning was something that you used to believe that you just don't anymore

email I don't think we need to have email on mobile devices and need to be connected 24 seven we live in this instant gratification society like

oh my god if I don't respond right now the world's gonna come to you know it's gonna burn everything's gonna die and that's so wrong and so I really disconnected about seven and a half months ago for me all my phone

and instead what I did is empower to team around me of leaders to really slide in and take care of a lot of the stuff that needs to get done and slack me if you need me if you don't be in power to know that you've got this and as a CEO of a company who has many employees like it's all about empowering others

because then I feel empowered like I'm doing a good job as a leader

slack me if you need me I love that catchphrase now Tony you selling you got things figured out I know you still go through your daily weekly monthly struggles like we all do but break it down for us we want to hear your worst

entrepreneurial moment to date so take us back to that moment and tell us that story that was early 2001 and we were actually in the

offer site so we were selling stuff online great conversions merchant accounts life was great we were sourcing products and one day we get the phone calls like hey we didn't receive our order a couple more calls come in

then all of a sudden our banks calling us like hey we're getting charge back complaints I'm like what do you mean what's going on so we decided my partners and I dug and

gill to take a drive over to this fulfillment center that was doing it for us and as we come in there actually in a meeting through the warehouse we can see him in a room

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