20 Years Building One Business Then This Happened #businesssuccess #entrepreneurmindset

30 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this video, Robin Waite reflects on the 20th anniversary of launching his first venture—a marketing and web‑design agency. He recounts how his reputation as “the web guy” led to authoring his first book, Online Business Startup, which sold around 18,000 copies and held the #1 spot on Amazon for three and a half years, often swapping the top position with fellow author Daniel Priestley. He also notes a brief moment when his book ranked #42 overall on Kindle, surrounded by popular titles like Fifty Shades of Grey. The monologue sets the stage for discussing the evolution of his business and the unexpected events that followed.

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I started off my career— February this year was the 20th anniversary of my starting my first business. So my first business was a marketing agency doing web design, graphics, and things like that. And I became known as the web guy. It led me to writing my first book, which is called Online Business Startup. Sold something like 18,000 copies. It was number 1 for 3 and a half years on Amazon, much to Daniel Priestley's chagrin, if you know who he is. I know who he is. We flip-flopped around with us, both of us being number 1 periodically. It was a running joke for quite a long period of time. At one point it was number 42 on Kindle overall. The first 41 books were like Fifty Shades of Grey and all that kind of stuff.