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Podcast | Episode 417
How to Grow Your Business Without Sacrificing Your Freedom
You can’t build anything interesting without some level of sacrifice, but if you’re an entrepreneur that is years into the hustle and you still can’t seem to get freedom from your business regularly, there’s a problem. Dale Majors, founder of VentureAnyway.com, joins me today to talk about something that so many of us struggle with: our businesses becoming all-consuming while our personal and family lives slowly disappear.
Listen in as Dale shares how to scale your business without becoming a slave to it, what he wishes he would have done before selling his first business, and how he took what he learned through his own entrepreneurial journey and now uses it to help other business owners build amazing lives. We also talk about the importance of building habits versus chasing goals and what Dale did to bring more control—and happiness—into his life.
You’ll learn:
- How Dale started BikeWagon.com during high school and why he eventually sold it. (4:00)
- The difficulties managing cash flow after the sale of the business. (10:45)
- How BikeWagon.com has done since the sale. (15:05)
- The catalyst that prompted Dale to change his life and find more balance. (19:45)
- The one thing he wants every entrepreneur to know. (25:00)
- How to find work-life balance without affecting employee morale. (33:00)
- Building habits vs. chasing goals. (34:50)
- How to build strong and resilient kids. (44:20)
- How VentureAnyway.com helps entrepreneurs find balance. (47:40)
(With your host Andrew Youderian of eCommerceFuel.com and Dale Majors of VentureAnyway.com)
What Was Mentioned
- Dale Majors: Website | LinkedIn | Email
- VentureAnyway.com
- GrandTrunk.com
- LevelNineSports.com
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney
- The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis – and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse
- eCommerceFuel Forum
- One Click Upsell – Increase Sales 15%+ with Pre-and Post-purchase Upsells. (On average, Shopify users increase sales 15% immediately after installing the app!)
- A2X – Simplify your bookkeeping, eliminate the guesswork, and automate.
Image credit to Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay.
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“It was a cool experience to start from the ground up without a clue as to what we were doing and finding those different tactics.” - Dale Majors Tweet this “The beauty of investing is that it all just comes down to percentage points.” - Dale Majors Tweet this “I can’t go back home again knowing that i’m just going to fall into the same grind being controlled by my business and my business is just going to own me for the rest of my life.” - Dale Majors Tweet this
Post by Andrew Youderian
Founder and Chief Instigator, eComFuel
Andrew quit an early finance job to sell CB radios online — an admittedly unorthodox career path. It set him on a course to found and sell multiple businesses, host a decade-running podcast, lecture at Harvard Business School and create eComFuel, the leading community for 7- and 8-figure online business owners. Andrew is fascinated with branding, AI, building community, investing and growing meaningful businesses that don't require sacrificing what truly matters.
