The 5 Best Business Books For Entrepreneurs!
Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast
Shane Sams
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
I've been asked which books I recommend for new entrepreneurs… or which books have helped me the most in my business. If I could go back in time, I would read these 5 books at the beginning of my online business journey.
In today's episode, we discuss:
- Discovering your why
- Focusing on the right things in your business
- Clearly articulating your message
- Sales and marketing your online business
- Managing your finances as an entrepreneur
Get these books by clicking below:
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz
- Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
- Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
- Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
Our spotlight story this week is Jason Geiman!
Jason had a great pressure washing business in the greater-Cincinnati area, and he had built that revenue up to 7-figures.
After selling that business and looking for a way to make money, he discovered online business through the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast! Now, he has created a multiple 6-figure membership business!
There's tons of value in this episode of the podcast because we're also answering a couple of questions from the Flipped Lifestyle Community forums!
- How do I start an online business while working full-time?
We would love to have you as a member of The Flipped Lifestyle Community! We believe you have God-given talents and experiences you can use to start an online business! All you need is 100 people to pay you $50/m online to make $5,000/m, $60,000/y! Let us help you start a membership of your own. Click here to learn more: https://flippedlifestyle.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. |
| 0:07.1 | We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam. |
| 0:11.0 | We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. |
| 0:15.8 | And now we help other families do the same. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you ready to flip your life? |
| 0:20.8 | All right. Let's get started. Hey you ready to flip your life? All right. |
| 0:21.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, y'all, Shane Sam's here. |
| 0:25.2 | Super excited to bring you another episode. |
| 0:27.6 | I've been getting a lot of questions in my community lately about what my favorite books are. |
| 0:33.1 | I get this question all the time. |
| 0:35.6 | People always ask me, like, what are the five best business books |
| 0:39.1 | for entrepreneurs? Like, if you started over today, Shane Sams, like, what would you read? Like, |
| 0:45.0 | what are the five books that you've read? And I've read a bunch. There's like 100 books behind me. |
| 0:49.7 | There's 100 books in this room over here. There's another 100 in a closet at the house. Like, |
| 0:53.2 | we've read a lot of books over the last 10 years. So people ask me like what is the top, what are the top five books that you would read if you had to start all over again? And like, what order would you read them in? So I thought, you know what? I'm going to record a podcast about this. And that way, not only will it help everybody to know which books they |
| 1:10.9 | need to pick next, but I can have a nice, tidy answer to this question right here. I'm going to |
| 1:16.6 | talk about the five most influential books on me over my entire online business journey. There's |
| 1:23.6 | a lot of different books in different categories. So I kind of had trouble picking |
| 1:27.9 | like which book fits into what category. So I might actually mention a couple other books as we go |
| 1:33.4 | here. But if I was literally starting over and I could go back in a time machine and I could |
| 1:38.5 | grab myself by the shoulders, you know, a decade ago and say, please read these five books first and in this order. |
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