Podcast 454: Richard McLemore: LinkedIn Expert Who Knows True Value

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest today on the Join Up Dots free podcast interview is Richard McLemore, a man who in his time has worked for the Man, Uncle Sam, and as a entrepreneur, building three businesses from scratch. Starting his adult life in the Special Forces, he served his time under the tutorage of Uncle Sam, before entering the corporate world and looking for his thing. And it’s fair to say that it took some time before things started going in the direction he wanted. As he says in his own words ” After my first position I moved from Oklahoma to Houston, Texas as credit manager, and within one year got promoted to Zone Credit manager covering four offices. During that time I kept on going out with the HP sales engineers, and could see that these guys had great technical knowledge but never returned with an order. Watching this time and time again, I started to believe that I could do the sales role, and after discovering they were paid twice my rate made active moves to transfer across. However the management were less than keen on this movement, saying no one from finance had ever moved into sales. After a year, I did, and things started to come together for me. I trained for 1 year, won 3 President Club awards – 2nd year, sold more than half of the worldwide inventory of HP LaserJets, even though I didn’t know how to actually turn the self-demo on” And what makes this guy fascinating, and is truly it seems the piece of the puzzle that brings everything together is his understanding that bridges are there to be built. He can see how the joining up the dots of knowledge is the key to success. Building bridges between areas of expertise, allowing the big picture to be viewed in the quickest way forward. And now he has set about building those bridges in the spiritual home of connections LinkedIn, where he has become a recognised expert in how to develop your network for maximum effect. So is there a piece of the puzzle that people miss as they try to create their own track of success? And does he look back and see his dots joining up, or has it been an eclectic group of stumbles and falls? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only entrepreneur himself Mr Richard McLemore

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features
0:10.3	amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:26.0	Hello there everybody and welcome to another edition of Join Up Dodge.
0:30.3	Yes, this is episode 453 and as is usual and we go across to America a lot.
0:37.0	It's like my spiritual home now. We're going over there again and we're going to a guy who is in Texas at the moment and I was actually
0:44.4	having a little chiefty as we say in the United Kingdom around Google Street View
0:49.5	looking at his house and he's got 14 acres go him I've got about 14 inches over here in the
0:55.5	United Kingdom so he's got he's got enough room to run around and create a
0:59.9	global domination just on his own property.
1:03.0	And he is a man who's got a fascinating story.
1:06.0	Because in his time he's worked for the man,
1:08.0	then Uncle Sam, as an entrepreneur,
1:11.0	and he's actually built three businesses from scratch selling two of them
1:13.9	successfully. Now starting his adult life in the special forces he served his time under
1:18.5	the tutoring of Uncle Sam before entering the corporate world and looking for his thing.
1:24.0	And it's fair to say that it took some time before things started going in the direction he
1:28.0	wanted.
1:29.0	As he says in his own words, after my first position I moved from Oklahoma to Houston Texas as credit
1:34.9	manager and within one year got promoted to zone credit manager covering four
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