My Step-By-Step Process To Building a $1M+ Business

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 5, 2024

Duration

27m

Channel

My First Million

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Use Sam's secret growth sauce: generate more traffic with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/2ak Episode 570: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) go through Sam’s journey of launching his company Hampton. It’s a step by step walkthrough of what went right and what went wrong. — Show Notes: (00:00) Intro - A radically transparent look inside Hampton launch. (2:32) Idea #1: Short-term rental crew (failed) (3:32) Idea #2: Community of truckers (failed) (4:23) Idea #3: Community for entrepreneurs (5:48) Fail #3: V1, V2, V3 of Hampton (8:00) Step 1: Research (10:08) Step 2: Picking the right name (12:05) Step 3: Hire a Branding Agency ($15K) (14:12) Things Sam said no to (17:12) Leverage the founder story (20:18) Shaan's branding agency experience (21:51) Shaan’s $25K Mistake: Hiring a "naming" agency (25:57) Takeaways — Links:

• Hampton Brand Inspiration doc: https://tinyurl.com/4uw5a9sv — Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

— Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sam Parr

  host

  Entrepreneur and co-host of My First Million; founded The Hustle and later launched the Hampton community.

• Shaan Puri

  host

  Entrepreneur and co-host of My First Million; associated with The Milk Road and frequently interviews/recaps tactics with Sam.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, My Step-By-Step Process To Building a $1M+ Business explores Sam Parr Reveals How Hampton Emerged From Failed Ideas Sam Parr explains that before Hampton he dropped a short-term rental crew and a trucker audience idea because he did not enjoy the work or the fit.

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