Donnie Boivin: Business Freedom - Foundation of Success

About Donnie Boivin: Donnie Boivin is the CEO of Success Champions. This online community gives you back your time while connecting you with other business owners looking to scale and grow their businesses. Donnie created the Badass Business Summit helping businesses unleash, be seen, and sell. And has appeared on hundreds of podcasts, spoken on hundreds of stages, and is going bigger with his message daily. Also, he is the Host of Growth Mode Podcasts, which gives you all the insights you need to know while building your business. Donnie is one of the leading global minds on sales, business development, and business growth. He is the first person to make sales and business development relatable and human. Donnie is a community builder at heart — he builds champions. Check out the latest episode of our Conversational Selling podcast to learn more about Donnie.

 

In this episode, Nancy and Donnie discuss the following:

• How did Donnie get into podcasting?
• Story of three profitable companies that all started because of a podcast.
• Donnie's purpose in life is to get as many people to freedom as possible. What does he mean by that? And why is that?
• Why do so many people struggle with building a business?
• What is the Badass Business Summit all about?
• Is any particular facet of the business that seems to be more common than others?
• Success Champion Networking: How did Donnie come up with that idea? And what happens when you belong to it?
• Criteria for picking and choosing the players in the community.
• How many people are included per group?
• A fun fact about Donnie.
• Something that you know is true that almost nobody agrees with you on.
• What is the one takeaway you'd like to leave the audience with?
• How can my people find you?
  
   

Key Takeaways: 

 

• I was interviewing from the perspective of and trying to learn how other people found success.
• Badass Business Summit is designed to bring in expert speakers on very specific operational mindsets, marketing, and sales perspectives to teach workshop style, so you're working on it at the summit. So, by the time you leave, it's already functioning in your business.
• Networking needs to be a portion of your business development strategy, not the entirety of it.
• If you can sell and then network, and you can bring your clients back to the network, and you get a group full of people doing that - amazing things happen.
• I had no choice but to learn things and screw up things along the way.
• I realized that many people like me were struggling to build a business.
• I will share everything I screwed up and how we fixed it, and I will help people in those dark places scrambling to figure out how to build their businesses.
• In this moment of time that we're in, the only thing you need to focus on is your personal brand.

"Quit focusing on the referrals and focus on whom you need to be introduced to, not from an in-client user, but from a place where their client base is your ideal client base and you guys can build this synergistic mutually beneficial relationship." – DONNIE 

"I think most people were like me, and we worked for somebody else for 20-plus years, and then we jumped out, and we wanted to start a business. And we don't realize that somebody was telling us what to do during those times working for other people. And now you're out on your own; nobody's telling you what to do. And the second portion of that is when you work for other people; excuses are easy. If the business is down, you can blame marketing, sales, leads, the economy, and everything else. But as a business owner, you don't get that choice to blame anybody. If the sales are down, go sell. Marketing sucks. Go fix marketing. You know, it's whatever it is. And people have never actually looked at themselves in a mirror to see what they're made of. And when business gets hard, they don't want to face their own reality because they're scared of whom they meet if they start looking inside. And so, I tell people, the greatest exercise in the world you can do is go to your mirror every night and say the words I'm proud of you. And whatever pops up that you're not proud of is the thing you got to fix or do. It's the greatest exercise I've found for me for self-discovery. " – DONNIE 

Connect with Donnie Boivin:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnieboivin/
• Success Champions: https://successchampionnetworking.com/
• Badass Business Summit: https://badassbusinesssummit.com/
   

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