Entrepreneur on Fire Episode 260

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The daily doses inspiration, encouragement and energy from the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.

Prepare to ignite now!

This is Entrepreneur on Fire, with John Lee Demers.

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Okay Fire Nation, let's get started.

I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today, Travis Ketchum.

Travis, are you prepared to ignite?

You bet.

Alright, Travis is the founder of Contest Domination, a powerful contest platform that anyone can use.

Born an entrepreneur, Travis loves creating software solutions for complex problems with smart and efficient teams to make sophisticated marketing approachable for the masses.

Given Fire Nation just a little overview Travis, but take a minute. Tell us about you personally, we want to get to know you, and then tell us about your business.

Sure, so like most entrepreneurs on Fire, I started early as a kid, I was the one hustling car washes and reselling soda from the grocery store down on a ferry line on a hot day.

Pretty much anything that they would make a buck, started my first official business in high school, which was actually drop shipping laptops on eBay like a couple hundred a day.

Completed my college degree, took a six month break, got a real job, lasted about nine months, kind of hated it.

And then just jumped out there and started working with bigger clients, best selling authors, that kind of stuff.

And then eventually I kind of saw this gap in my own business where I needed to get more leads, and I knew that one of the best ways to do that was Contest.

And I looked at all the other contest solutions out there, no one had this very explicit focus on generating more qualified leads.

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