Dennis Yu

Entrepreneurship

Want a simple way to tell who is running a successful agency versus pretending?

Anyone who is only talking about how to acquire customers doesn’t understand that it’s 10 times harder to KEEP customers. Selling is easy– to get someone to trust you for a couple of months– but keeping clients requires that you deliver results, which requires rock-solid processes. If you don’t hear about their challenges in optimizing …

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Golf, like business, is a game of mistake management.

You’re not going for perfection, but the avoidance of catastrophe. Most success coaches and “influencers” bask in the moment of that one amazing shot, instead of continuing to make progress daily. My billionaire friends tell me it takes 10+ years of steady hard work to reach success. Look not for people who have an isolated …

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The #1 productivity tip of the most successful people I know is that they manage interruptions.

When you allow people to interrupt you, they are controlling your time and priorities. Respond to true emergencies, which must be urgent and important. 99% of the interruptions you have are not important— they can wait and can go through email. Could you imagine if anytime someone had a random question or non-life threatening situation …

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Working part-time when you’re brand new in a competitive field is like trying to take off on just one engine.

Or playing basketball with just one hand in the NBA. You’re not going to be a pro-level digital marketer without making the commitment. Some people make the fatal mistake of thinking that working multiple jobs is somehow “safer”, as if stock market portfolio theory applies to work. One is a passive investment, where you hedge …

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You and I see a lot of people wanting to be “influencers”

The #1 MISTAKE they make is by focusing on their own personal brands. And that’s why many of us have a natural distaste for working on our personal brands– because it feels icky and self-promotional to beat our our chests. So, ironically, the best way to build your personal brand is to NOT do it …

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I decided that I want to make a TON of $$$ and that there’s nothing wrong with that.

For Content Factory to make the impact we want on the education system and the lives of young adults, we have to be able to write checks to fund our initiatives. We are a FOR PURPOSE business, not a non-profit– because we integrate our mission directly into our company operations. A for-profit business donates from …

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My buddy who sold his company for $2.2 billion dollars gave me a billion-dollar gift.

He said that fear is the distance between where you are and the negative event in the future. If you are trying to “manifest”, then by definition there is a gap between where you are now and want to be. But if you believe that everything happens for a reason- that there are no coincidences …

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