Start from Zero Review: Is Maxwell onto something?

These lessons also made Dane realize that selling software was great if his clients only wanted certain components of what he was trying to sell.

While his business offers were great, his customers never wanted to buy his product as a whole solution.

With so much experience being an entrepreneur, Maxwell realized that he needed to fulfill a need from the customer’s perspective, instead of just creating something and convincing people they needed it.

The above insight was a game-changer for Maxwell, as he now understood that he didn’t need to be an industry expert.

In fact, the ideas didn’t have to be his own, nor did he really need to know what he was doing.

What he needed to do, however, was listen intently to his clients’ needs and solve their problems by being a facilitator.

Throughout his time as an entrepreneur and business builder, Maxwell developed a passion for education-based marketing.

Maxwell teaches many of his apprentices to clearly define who’s going to be interested in their products (target market) and then find a way to captivate that audience.

From there on out, the focus is on providing clients with valuable and actionable content to build strong relationships and trust.

It’s through this finely tuned framework that Maxwell makes the selling of products and services a fluid and simple transaction — from business owner to client.

What’s best of all about this method?

Well, the fact that it’s mutually beneficial to both parties makes this a killer strategy to include.

In this adventure, you’ll gain knowledge that precisely illustrates how you’re going to manage jealousy.

As an entrepreneur, you’re going to have moments of envy, where people are outperforming you.

It’s a natural feeling, but you can’t allow it to overpower you. Rather, you must find a way to use it to your advantage.

In this adventure, Maxwell will also highlight the cardinal rule of successful entrepreneurship.

This mantra, when applied correctly, will be your shield from being poor, lazy, and doing business the dumb way.

Maybe that last part is a touch blunt, but that’s what we like about Maxwell.

He cuts through the fluff and nonsense and tells you how it is.

There are characteristics and strengths you must develop if you’re intending to evolve as an entrepreneur.

It won’t happen if you can’t deal with mitigating factors, such as a weak self-perception or fear of taking risks.

In this section of his book, Maxwell utilizes his teachings to transform what you think of yourself. He also hones in on how you manage feelings of fear.

When you handle those crucial elements of your mindset, everything that follows will seem automatic and natural.

More specifically, in this section, you’ll understand how to overcome the inhibitions that might otherwise hold you back.

Being an entrepreneur is more than just running a business. People buy from the person, the brains behind the idea.

If you have a good idea and encourage trust amongst your customers but still don’t feel good about yourself, then what’s the point of it all?

You have to continue to grow as an individual to be an entrepreneur.

Here are some ways you can do exactly that:

And don’t forget, a healthy mind = a healthy business.

Imagine being able to see the income streams in everything.

Where other people might see materials, ideas, problems, or noise, envision yourself seeing pathways for income.

To us, that sounds like the entrepreneurial dream — the Surveyor brain to a tee.

This brain acts as a perfect complement to the Surveyor, as you figure out how to scout the surveyed landscape.

Meaning, after you’ve seen a revenue stream, this brain helps you figure out how to collect, making things a bit more concrete.

It’s hard to imagine being a thriving entrepreneur without being able to plant scalable product seeds from scratch.

Of course, Maxwell points out that it’s possible to miss out on one of these brains, but lacking in the thorough and masterful Planter brain seems like a tremendous setback.

Maxwell helps you develop your Gardener brain and attempts to aid you in avoiding those activities that waste your time.

In their place, you’ll end up gardening and growing revenue with valuable, streamlined actions.

It’s easy to see why these skills would be beneficial.

They’ll essentially aid you to grow on 4 levels.

Dane Maxwell’s Start from Zero is genuinely meant to stick with you throughout your journey as an entrepreneur.

As such, when you’ve mastered all the skills in the above adventures, you don’t simply put the book away to collect dust.

This adventure gives you a map to help you keep your eyes on the prize throughout your evolution as a business owner and entrepreneur.

Here are 5 ways that you can measure your entrepreneurial growth:

This is one of the easiest ways you can track your growth.

Simply have a look at your financial statements and compare them to when you started out.

You can easily track your earnings by using systeme.io!

Even if your company isn’t doing that well on the financial front, you still have the opportunity to see what your customers think.

If customer satisfaction is high, then there may be a good chance of financial success in the future.

Simply work a bit more on your marketing strategies.

An easy way to measure company growth is by looking at your reach, brand affiliation, product production, amount of leads and customers, and the number of additional employees hired.

One study shows that happy employees are 13% more productive.

The idea behind this is the sense of accomplishment your workers are getting and how well they’re progressing.

Make sure these needs are met, and they’ll continue to be the worker bees you need to sustain a thriving business.

Measuring your success based on your market position requires you to keep a close eye on your competitors’ performance.

Make sure to track customer satisfaction through surveys, keep your social media updated, and look at all your sales reports.

Whether you’re a total newbie or a seasoned entrepreneurial veteran, these tips and Maxwell’s map will keep you on the straight and narrow, so you never lose your laser focus.

It’s all well and good for Maxwell to talk about the theories that’ll help you thrive as an entrepreneur, but have any of his tips ever worked for anyone?

In this adventure, there’s a list of 15 individuals who followed his teaching and transformed themselves into total rock stars.

It acts as some necessary proof in the pudding, so to speak.