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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

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With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. My lucrative career gave me access to create the closet of my dreams and left me always wanting more.

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And there’s two areas in particular that should be outsourced less: marketing tactics and technology. You hire a marketing person to handle routine things that include both sides of that coin, from writing content to doing social posts to getting reviews to making Instagram posts. Insight 3: Humanize and Automate. Like this show?

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Transcript of Finding Your Brand’s Purpose

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He is a partner at the Barkley ad agency. John Jantsch: You also have the distinction of being one of those very few Kansas City guests that I end up having on the show, so I always love that. If it wasn’t a technically superior sock, I don’t know how much I’d care that you’re giving a pair away.