Podcast 455: David Ralph “Joins up Dots” Along His Entrepreneurial Success Story On Bootstrapping It!

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

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Join Up Dots has been brought to you courtesy of Bootstrapping It! Episode 21: Podcaster David Ralph “Joins up Dots” along his entrepreneurial journey David is the host of Join Up Dots, a daily podcast produced in the UK. The one simple mission of Join Up Dots is to help us all believe that the future can be whatever we want it to be. In this episode we talk with David about the transition from employee to podcaster and the monetization plans for his business, including his new podcasting platform, Podcaster’s Mastery. Key takeaways David, a believer in the “side hustle” as a way to transition from employee to entrepreneur, had been working on various online platforms 6 years before he finally quit his job. He initially quit his job to become a web developer, but soon became bored with it. David became inspired to podcast after listening to John Lee Dumas and Michael O’Neal. As David has been growing his podcast, at various times he has taken a part-time job and coached/mentored others to compensate for the drop in his income. One key thing that David has learned since launching his business is that it doesn’t take a large number of customers to make a living from a entrepreneurial venture ($500 product sold to 200 of the 7 billion people on the plant = $100,000). David’s original monetization strategy for his podcast was focused around advertisers, however, he is now concentrating his efforts on creating and launching a platform to teach others how to podcast. David’s tips for bootstrappers: “Slide”, don’t “Leap” into your entrepreneurial venture. Put up with your job while you “upskill” yourself. Be selective in terms of who you share your dreams with.

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0:00.0	Hello this is David Ralph the host of the Join UpDots podcast and you're listening to
0:04.6	bootstrapping it this is the only show you should ever listen to.
0:08.9	You are the second person from the UK I've had on here and I just love that it just classes up the joint it's beautiful
0:14.3	We're like James Bond are we James Bond a Hugh Grant. That's what we're like
0:20.1	If you've got a passion to pursue with the thought of going thousands upon thousands of dollars into debt to do it is holding you back, then you've come to the right place.
0:29.0	Vince Carter is here talking with entrepreneurs who share their stories, wisdom, and lessons learned as they
0:34.8	built their businesses without breaking the bank.
0:38.0	Welcome to bootstrapping it.
0:39.6	Here's Vince Carter. Hey fellow bootstrappers. Vince Carter here with a quick reminder that show notes providing the key takeaways from this in every episode of bootstrapping it can be found in bootstrapping it.com.
1:01.0	A few of those key takeaways from today's chat with David Ralph are David's
1:06.4	belief in the side hustle as a way to transition from employee to an entrepreneur.
1:11.6	One key thing that David has learned since launching his business regarding
1:15.0	his customers and how David has adjusted his monetization strategy for his business.
1:21.1	And by the way, according to his website,
1:23.0	podcasters mastery.com, David's new podcasting platform is now scheduled to launch around the end of April.
1:29.0	If you've been thinking about launching our podcast, be sure to check it out.
1:33.4	And with that, here's today's interview.
1:35.8	Enjoy.
1:36.8	Hey guys, I'm Vince Carter.
1:38.0	Welcome back to Bootstrapping it.
1:39.8	Thanks for joining me today for my chat with my guest, David Ralph. David. David how you this evening? I am very well. It's a lot like you
1:47.0	say it's the evening it's about lunchtime for you but I've done a four days work and
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