Stephen Christopher is the founder of Seequs Digital Marketing. Seequs is a web marketing agency based in Denver that helps companies grow through online marketing.
Before Seequs, Stephen also started several financial businesses and today, uses his personal business experience to help other companies and business owners develop through online marketing.
Today we’ll be hearing Stephen’s journey; including his first entrepreneurial venture at age 14 and the huge failure he experienced when his mortgage company completely tanked in 2008.
Stephen shares why he believes you should not burn the ships and quit your job until you have a profitable side project.
And he shares how he’s learned to lean into his fears and why he highly recommends quick action and taking any opportunity to be uncomfortable.
Key Points From This Episode:
- How Stephen got into entrepreneurship at age 14.
- From engineering to business: Stephen’s college years.
- How Stephen got into the mortgage industry.
- How Stephen’s came out of his first business fail.
- Why a business crash is like a breakup.
- Assessing risk and turning failure into opportunity.
- Find out how Seequs was started on a napkin at Chilies.
- Why you need to act faster than your inner critic.
- Do your business on the side or burn the 9-5 job ship?
- Why you should learn everything you can from your current job.
- How Seequs found its niche and grows without its own marketing.
- Why clients are the best sales people.
- Overcoming imposter syndrome and self-sabotage.
- Why it takes two days to get out of a rut.
- Looking for any opportunity to be uncomfortable.
- How Stephen overcame his fear of public speaking.
- Why journaling is one of the most powerful things you could do.
- Delegate, duplicate or delete: Stepping away from your business.
- The three most uncomfortable things that you need to do next.
- And much more!
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