In episode 29 of Micro Entrepreneur: the magic of thinking small, I had a great time speaking with Mike Southon. Mike is a serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author and one of the world’s top business keynote speakers on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales.

This week's guest

Mike is co-author with Chris West of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat.

He has spoken at over 1,000 live events all over the world and provided face-to-face mentoring to over 1,000 entrepreneurs.

What we covered in the show:

The back story behind the Instruction Set and the Beermat Entrepreneur
The most important factor for success (spoiler - it's all about finding and maintaining mentors)
Make a profit and you're already an entrepreneur! Start there...
Choose something that you love doing - there's always money in it
Focus, focus, focus - Start small and see if anyone will give you any money for your product/service
Always charge something - test your model and measure it with the money
What to do before the logo, the branding or the business plan
Setting initial prices - the first sale is the hardest - then others do the selling for you
Raising your prices - the difference between price and 'value for money' pricing
Trust based and outcome based pricing
Selling is about hunting, farming and managing your pipeline
You have to be prepared to work hard in the beginning
Thoughts on 2015
Mentoring - helps you with the 'how, who, why of your business' and (if you're lucky!)... a referral
You can find out more about Mike here:

Mike's website

@MikeSouthon

LinkedIn

Youtube

Google+

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