Insane Growth With Mitchell Harper

My two biggest focuses in life are building great businesses and being the world's best dad for my two beautiful girls. In this episode I'm going to share the 6 lessons I've learned over the years that have helped me continue to work hard on my businesses while still being present as a dad.Support the show

I just got back from a trip to Las Vegas for my 35th birthday. When I was there I played a lot of Blackjack, won $6,500 in about 25 minutes and found that the way I play the game has a lot to do with how I build businesses. In this episode I'm going to talk about why you should NOT "bet the farm" when starting a new business and I'll share with you the idea of risk mitigation and getting your money back out of your business ASAP, which goes completely against what most investors and even most entrepreneurs do.

Whether we realize it or not, we all make decisions based on certain assumptions and limiting beliefs we hold. Some may be valid, but most aren't. We also use confirmation bias to trick ourselves into feeling that the decisions we make are right - even when we've never made similar decisions before. In this week's episode of Insane Growth, I'm going to share with you a few strategies you can use to identify and "reprogram" any assumptions you have that are no longer serving you or that are slowing you down. If you're not happy with the progress you're making towards specific goals in your life, then my guess is you're trying to move forward with assumptions that are no longer valid for where you are in life. In this episode, we get rid of them once and for all.Support the show

There's one quote that, to me, best encapsulates how successful people think: "2x thinking is 'what can I do?', 10x thinking is 'who can help me'?" In this episode I'm going to show you the simple process I use to solve large, complex problems quickly and take advantage of huge opportunities. It's called the "triangulation process" and I've been using it for over 10 years to compress time, avoid mistakes and get to where I want to go in one-tenth the time it used to take me.Support the show

What's the #1 mistake most companies make when it comes to marketing? They try to sell to the wrong audience at the wrong time. Instead of trying to sell to everyone, you need to understand your audience in relation to where they are in your sales funnel - and deliver appropriate content that "pushes them" down your funnel in a way that's natural and helpful. That's whats we'll get into during this episode - complete with real examples.

In this episode I'll share with you the one critical decision I made back in 2009 that really changed how I think about building companies - and that dramatically boosted my revenue and net worth as a result. I'm going to share two stories with you in this episode to demonstrate why this advice is so critical to the future value of your business. First, how we pivoted Interspire (a one-time revenue business) to BigCommerce (a SaaS recurring revenue business) back in 2009. Second, how I started an online training company and pivoted that from courses to a membership subscription business which grew to 7 figures of annual revenue within 60 days. If you're struggling to get new customers or clients at the start of every month, you need to tune in. The way you're selling your products needs to change and this is exactly how to do it.Support the show

In the very first episode of my new podcast (make sure you subscribe!), I'm going to show you the specific coping strategies I've used to deal with 3 huge setbacks in my career as a founder. First, how I dealt with losing $1,000,000 of my own money in a failed company I launched back in 2015. Second, how I dealt with losing a 9-figure deal to sell one of my companies at the last minute. Finally, how I dealt with the death of an employee and a close friend. The best founders develop rock solid mindsets and can weather the storms and that's what I'll teach you how to do in this episode.