Ep.12 Daring to challenge your status-quo
“If you can’t sell, then you’re not in business. Marketing and Sales are the backbone of a company.”
Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists.
Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. Tom seems like one of those guys with the Midas Touch, where everything he works on turns into gold. He has published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding.
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Some key themes that Carole explores with Tom:
02:46: Tom's strategy in creating a memorable pitch that works
05:17: The way he created his current business vision
11:09: His experience in attaching his business goal to money
16:30: When and how he learned the value of time
18:17: The right time to stop thinking and start doing
23:49: How he manages his energy to stay effective
29:27: The time he created his first shortcut
32:43: The way he creates the space for his team to become future business owners
34:28: Why being a business owner is not for everyone
37:21: The meaning of the word leadership
42:01: His view on recommending a book for someone to read
50:04: The 30-day challenge he'd throw to our listeners
And so much more than that.
Daring to challenge your status-quo
With Tom Libelt | Founder of Smart Brand Marketing
About the Smart Brand Marketing
We Market Online Courses, bringing big business tools for small business budgets. We help course creators, educators and coaches validate, scale, improve and maximize what they do. Areas of expertise include ad campaigns, copywriting, funnel design, marketing, profitability, systems & and strategy
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