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Chapter 1: What advice would Dan Martell give his 20-year-old self?
At the time of this recording, I've been in business for 27 years. But if I had to go back and give my 20-year-old self some advice on how to build a business a lot faster, here's what I would say. Welcome to the Martell Method. I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
Chapter 2: How can spending money save time in business?
In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. And make sure you don't miss anything by subscribing to my newsletter at martellmethod.com. Number one, spend money to save time, not time to save money. See, most people are always trying to save money, but they don't realize that you have to invest money to save time.
Chapter 3: Why should you solve problems for rich people?
In today's world where you can spend dollars to buy back hours with the apps and the delivery and having things come to you and be able to have people all over the world support you in your dreams for a few dollars an hour, do that. Number two, solve problems for rich people, not broke people.
If you want your life to be easier, you want to have a business that thrives, you want to have a great job, go solve problems for people that have money. Broke people, they'll be a pain in your butt. You'll deal with them not paying you. You deal with the drama that they're going to come along with it because they expect everything for very little. Rich people, way easier to work with.
Chapter 4: What does it mean to sell before you build?
Number three, sell before you build anything. My default, as soon as I have an idea, is to run to find a customer. I sell before I've ever built anything. All my software companies, all my coaching programs, all my media stuff, always sell first, then figure out how to build it. Number four, you don't manage time, you manage energy.
If I could go back and talk to myself about the way I structured my life, instead of just responding to whoever needed my time, instead put those projects tasks together throughout the day based on the energy I would have in the morning versus the afternoon, I would have got so much more done. Number five, Simple scales, complex fails. The best way to build a life that's awesome is keep it simple.
Chapter 5: How important is cash flow in business?
Don't have a lot of options. Don't have a lot of things to manage. Don't allow people to keep adding things to make it better. Fight for simplicity because complexity is the ceiling of growth. Number six, cashflow is critical. Don't finance your customers. If people want to buy from you and you have fixed costs, have them pay you enough to cover those costs.
Chapter 6: What does it mean to model and modify in business?
If you got to go and finance that through a investors, that means that you're essentially supporting their growth in their business through your bank account. I want them to pay me upfront. I want to finance my growth through my customer's financing. Number seven, model and modify. So many times I've had people that coach with me try to modify my instructions.
And I know when I worked with a coach, I learned this the hard way where I would take what they said and say, well, mine's a little different and I'll do it this way. And it turns out it didn't work. Why? Because I modified too much. When you learn something new, do it exactly as they say. And then once you get traction and results, then you can modify. Number eight, 50 to fix it.
Chapter 7: Why is patience important for achieving results?
The number one way you move faster to allow people to make decisions on your behalf when you're not around. I give everybody in my life the power to solve a problem if it's less than $50 without asking. They're just gonna tell me they did it afterwards because they gotta expense it. But 50 to fix it, huge leverage in your business. Number nine, be patient with results, but impatient with action.
See, some people stress themselves out and they get overwhelmed because they have this big vision for their life and they don't see that materialize yet. When you have an idea, do it and be consistent over long periods of time. Don't do a lot and then slow down. It's not a sprint. It's a sprint within a marathon. Before we get back to the episode, if you're enjoying it so far, could you
Chapter 8: How can focusing on real problems improve your business?
go ahead and do me a huge favor and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Reviews help us get up in the rankings, which gives us credibility to reach out to bigger and bigger guests so we can bring them to you. It would mean so much. Let's get back to the episode. Number 10, if you think you have the answers to your problems already, you're in trouble.
It's impossible for you to actually know how you're about to do the thing you need to do without going and studying it, without going to learn it from somebody else. I tell this to my team all the time. If you think that we're gonna win by the knowledge and the experience we have in this room, we're all in trouble.
We all have to go outside this room to go learn so we can bring those best practices back here so we can execute faster. Number 11, don't waste time on hypothetical problems. So often when I'm coaching people, they ask me about a scenario that hasn't happened. Hypotheticals are hypocritical. Don't ask. You make up situations that haven't happened. So you solve problems that aren't problems yet.
Instead of the ones you actually have, focus on the things that are real, not made up. Number 12, measure everything and make it visible. My philosophy is that sunlight sanitizes all problems. Meaning that first off, I got to measure if I'm doing it right. Step two is make it public to
everybody so in my studio i have two dashboards for the different engines of my business that every person can see with names next to every metric that we monitor so that there's accountability if you measure it you can manage it number 13 focus stands for follow one course until successful i can't tell you how much wealth has been destroyed by being distracted
Instead of saying, I'm gonna do one thing and follow one customer in one market, in one area and make $1 million. People think, well, I'm gonna do this and this and this and I have 17 side businesses. That's not focused. That's a distraction and you're not that good yet. Number 14, be the smallest person in the biggest room.
When I look around my peer group, I want to feel like I'm trying to keep up to everybody else. Like they're so far ahead of me. If I'm the big dog in my little city, I got to go find a new city. If you're the smartest person on your street, you got to move. If you're the top person in the room you're in, go find a bigger room where you got to fight to get into.
And these are not things you can easily get access to. Many of them at the highest level, it's invite only, which means you got to figure out Who's got the room? Who created it? And how do you create enough value to even be considered to be invited? But that transformed my life.
Before we get back to the episode, if you actually want to know what my real life looks like and see the people and the businesses and the companies I buy and my family and just like how I make it all work, go follow me on Instagram. Dan Martell, 2LZMartell on Instagram. It's where I show the behind the scenes, the real deal, real time. I'd love to see you there. Have an amazing day.
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