The Simple Checklist You Can Use to Grow Your Business with Donald Miller: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Donald "Don" Miller is an American author, public speaker, and business owner. He is the CEO of StoryBrand, a marketing company. He is also an author of personal essays and reflections about faith, God, and self-discovery. His first New York Times bestselling book was Blue Like Jazz and his latest book is called Marketing Made Simple.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Here's a formula for creating a mission statement: "We will accomplish X by X because of X."
2. Wealthy people think that the company exists to make money so they can buy something that makes more money without working.
3. As you create new products, know its profitability. Also, ask if it will confuse the audience on what problem you're intending to solve in the marketplace.
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| 0:14.0 | Light that Spark Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like sales evangelist. Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down the |
| 0:18.0 | simple checklist you can use to grow your business. |
| 0:21.0 | To drop these value bombs, I are brought to Don Miller into |
| 0:23.8 | Eophire Studios. Dawn is an American author public speaker and business owner |
| 0:27.5 | he's a CEO of Story Brands a marketing company and he's also the author of a book |
| 0:32.2 | called Marketing Made Simple. |
| 0:34.3 | And today, Fire Nation, we'll talk about a formula for creating a mission statement and how |
| 0:37.9 | wealthy people think that the company exists to make money so they can buy something that |
| 0:42.1 | makes more money without working and so much more. |
| 0:44.9 | And the big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Dawn and our sponsors. |
| 0:50.0 | Marketing Made Simple hosted by my friend Dr. J. Peterson, is brought to you by the HubSpot |
| 0:54.8 | Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. |
| 0:58.0 | Marketing Made Simple brings you practical tips to make your marketing easy and more importantly, |
| 1:02.4 | make it work. a recent episode on |
| 1:04.3 | whether vulnerability is a superpower and business is a must listen listen to marketing |
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| 1:13.7 | It's one of the most powerful ways to share your message with the world. |
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| 1:24.9 | Taylor's free training where he teaches you how to land a TEDx talk and |
| 1:28.2 | spread your message to millions. |
| 1:30.8 | Don, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. |
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