Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists.
Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. Tom seems like one of those guys with the Midas Touch, where everything he works on turns into gold. He has published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding.
Some key themes that I explore with Tom:
- 2'46": Tom's strategy in creating a memorable pitch that works
- 5'17": The way he created his current business vision
- 11'09": His experience in attaching his business goal to money
- 16'30": When and how he learned the value of time
- 18'17": The right time to stop thinking and start doing
- 23'49" How he manages his energy to stay effective
- 29'27": The time he created his first shortcut
- 32'43": The way he creates the space for his team to become future business owners
- 34'28": Why being a business owner is not for everyone
- 37'21": The meaning of the word leadership
- 42'01": His view on recommending a book for someone to read
- 50'04": The 30-day challenge he'd throw to our listeners
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