Episode 94
070: How to Hatch a New Business with Zack Miller
Zack Miller is an entrepreneur, author, internet personality and mayor of “Hustle City”. He has over two decades of business experience in starting, investing, advising, mentoring and growing thousands of companies or projects. After his own successful pursuit into the entrepreneurship realm, Zack launched Hatch to be problem solvers for business owners - both startup and established companies.
Zack believes, "At the end of the day we have one belief: Everyone should control the path to the future they desire". His mission is to provide the ecosystem for entrepreneurs to thrive within, by creating a springboard for them to test, start, launch and grow their businesses. He continues to spread his mission through a weekly business television program that he hosts.
Notes:
- Determine your target customer and then go offer them your services
- How Zack went from sports anchor and TV news to entrepreneur
- Importance of mentors to help bring you up in the beginning
- Zack was helping other people build businesses while he was building his
- Book: Get Clients Now by CJ Hayden
- How to learn about your clients’ challenges by bringing business owners together for regular meetings
- Hatch solves problems for businesses by people who have done it before
- Importance of documenting your advice and presentations so that you can use that content again when teaching, presenting, talking with others
- Importance of listening so you can help others
- How Zack used sponsorships to pay off $50K of credit card debt and built his business from his expertise
- Zack’s platform, 1000 Four, is an online platform to help people start and grow businesses
- Importance of persistence and hustle to go after opportunities you want
- Importance of staying true to yourself
- Importance of listening and truly understanding a business if you are going to help them
- Business owners are not the Lion King, they are looking up at the Lion King and are often not given the time of day or the opportunity
- The reason behind the 1004 name and the difference between four big companies or 1000 small companies
- Stop trying to go for the home run and focus on the singles instead
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