Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

The truth about business you need to hear

3 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short anecdote from Joe Polish in which a mentor challenges him: if others in your industry are succeeding and you are not, the problem isn’t the business but you. The mentor advises learning fundamental business rules so those skills can transfer to any business where customers are interested in the offering. The clip emphasizes candid, corrective mentorship over comforting motivation.

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Well, is there anyone in your business right now that is doing well? And I said, well, you know, in the Phoenix area there's a couple companies that do over a million bucks a year and you know, to me that's a lot of money. And he said, well, if there's other people that are doing well in the business you're in and you're not, there's nothing wrong with the business you're in, there's something wrong with you. And I was like, shit, that's not the motivational speech I wanted. He goes, so what you need to do is you need to learn fundamental business rules. You need to learn how to make a business work because once you do that, then you can take that to any business as long as people are interested in whatever that business is selling. And so he didn't tell me what I wanted to hear, but he told me what I needed to hear. So.