Entrepreneur on Fire, Episode 81

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Okay, let's get started. I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today, James Schramco. James, are you prepared to ignite?

I am prepared to ignite John. Oh my man, thank you. James lives in Sydney and runs a business called Superfast Business.

Lifestyle is very important to James, and he focuses on having fun with the family, looking after his health, visiting new places, and growing his business.

I've given Fire Nation a little overview, James, but why don't you take a minute, tell us about you personally, and we want to get to know you, and then tell us what's up with your business.

Okay, John. Well, Superfast Business is primarily an internet-based business, so I operate from home by myself, and I've got a team of sure who are fantastic.

And we offer services, doing things such as search engine optimization, website development, and on the other side of the business is information marketing and business coaching, which is pretty much my side of the business.

So I've got this equally split business that does separate things, but we have a lot of crossover with the same customer.

And I've been doing this since about 2005, although I only quit my job about halfway through there, so I had this transition phase from my old job of running a Mercedes-Benz dealership as the general manager in working my way into that entrepreneurial situation of having my own business.

Very cool, James. Well, I'm looking forward to delving more into that later because I also work alone in my studio here, so I know what you're going through.

And I also have a team that's virtual. My team's in the Philippines, so I'd love to talk more later in the interview about your team and how you set that up, because I just find that very interesting and fascinating stuff.

Before we do, we always start on fire off with a success court, gets the motivational ball rolling, gets our listeners pumped up for the content that you have for us today. So, James, what do you have for us?

The favorite success court would have to be Be Like Water, which is from Unsu, the art of war. The ancient Chinese proverb.

And the reason it's my favorite is it's gotten me out of more problems than anything else, because I came from an extremely difficult industry.

The motor industry is very mature, extremely competitive, and there's some pretty hardcore personalities in there, probably much like your military background.

So I found that that was a good quote for me.

That sounds like a great quote, and I actually download audiobooks every so often to kind of have playing in the background when I'm doing my more mindless tasks.

And I just downloaded the Sun Zoo, and so I'm really excited to go through that and have that kick, and because it just has, like you said, points like that throughout the entire book that are just good tidbits that I can kind of stop what I'm doing and make note of it.

But James, how do you actually apply that quote to your everyday life, to your mentality?

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