#10 - Dan Nikas - Building your own foundations - a podcast by Smarter Destiny Podcast

from 2019-07-01T03:57:32

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  • 00:30 - Presentation Dan Nikas

  • 00:42 - About the career as a homicide detective. “Traditionally police, when they get into these sort of long work trips, they go to the pub to spend the afternoon. But I turned to fitness instead”

  • 06:15 - The first course about how to grow your facebook page. 

  • 06:45 - First time DN hears about print on demand shirts.

  • 08:08 - Facebook advertising and how, all of the sudden, this system appeared where people tell you everything about themselves.

  • 09:00 - The breakdown as a policeman. “The doctors said I couldn’t do that anymore”

  • 14:30 - “I had two choices, do I fight for it or do I submit”.

  • 20:30 - “If you build your whole business on someone else’s foundation, and they take that away, you have nothing”.

  • 22:11 - Print on Demand vs. Dropshipping.

  • 25:13 - “Well, if I’m trying to build a brand, I don’t want to be all day finding new customers and not make them happy, so I went back to POD”.

  • 26:15 - Leggins and how the business took off.

  • 27:35 - Starting at 0 and going to US$ 4.5M in the first twelve months.

  • 29:40 - I very quickly learned that I need help. Yes, it costs money to have help, but you can’t go somewhere without.

  • 30:41 - The biggest demands from customers where in the end used as advertisement.

  • 35:43 - You have to have a Post-purchase funnel

  • 42:12 - Stop trying to chase the guru screenshots. That’s not the reality of the business.

  • 44:30 - When sales are going so well you forget to know where your money is going to. You have to be efficient and reduce costs.

  • - QUICK FIRE QUESTIONS

    • 47:00 - Which are your top three metrics? 

    • 51:30 - What advice for the entrepreneur dad’s?

    • 56:45 - What are your first 15 to 30 minutes of the day like?

    • 58:20 - What unusual things you drink or eat?

    • 59:00 - How do you get yourself into a state of flow?

    • 1:00:00 - What habit or opinion do you have that people tend to disagree with?

    • 1:03:19 - What nontraditional lesson would you teach if you ran a school?

    • 1:05:05 - What book had the biggest impact on your life?

    • 1:08:30 - Where do you go to get inspired?

    • 1:12:05 - if I gave you US$ 5k how would you double it in 24hs?

    • 1:13:34 - Best advice ever given to you?

    • 1:15:44 - One horse sized duck or one hundred duck sized horses?



  • 1:19:00 - What would you ask to the audience?

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