Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Michael Wade, Founder of Michael Wade Trade Coaching, located in Las Vegas, NV, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
With 25 years of trading and teaching/coaching trading full-time, my business is about educating and coaching traders about what's possible and not possible in trading. To show them the real deal about trading. To do this, I provide a weekly live trading webinar + a weekly coaching webinar, as well as live market updates and a community forum. Our community of traders is active, engaged, and making money.
Tell us about yourself
I started out as a computer developer and moved into sales at Oracle Corporation, The corporate life was eating my soul, and I wanted freedom. I quit the corporate world and began trading options full-time, eventually moving into teaching and coaching. What I say during over two decades of teaching and coaching was that few were succeeding... and I'm talking about thousands of people. With the interests of people at heart, I started Michael Wade Trade Coaching. Its success has been astounding but not surprising given that our company is founded on one thing: being in service of others.
Einstein is quoted as saying, "A life lived in service of others is a life worth living." I know that to be true and have given my life to this distinction.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
I launched MWTC on July 13, 2022. My community of subscribers grew massively in the first month, and they are staying. Of course, revenues have been substantial in the first six months of business. That's the business side, but the biggest accomplishment is the meaningful impact that MWTC has had on people's lives. This is evident in the testimonials on my website. To know that people's lives have been uplifted by my business is priceless and by far the biggest accomplishment so far.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
The biggest challenge of launching a business is all the moving parts of launching and maintaining operations... particularly in the launch phase. I must deliver live content several hours a week and be sure that all the aspects of managing, storing, and delivering content are. Subscriptions, payments, website maintenance, marketing, and various customer support mechanisms must be handled with impeccability and integrity. The engine is complex.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Start with a service mentality. Being in service of others is gold. It provides a context to operate from, and if, in fact, you deliver quality service, your customers will be glad to pay for your product/service.
- Also, stand on a platform of authenticity (truth) and impeccability and establish integrity as part of your brand.
- Plan out your actions, schedule them and take the actions when you said you'd take them. As a Landmark leader, I call this HONORING WORD... take action even if you don't want to. Disregard contracted thoughts like, "I'm overwhelmed," "I don't have time," "I can't do it," "It's too much," and "I'm overwhelmed." These are feelings and thoughts. Disregard them and take action!
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.mwtradecoach.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mwtradecoach
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwtradecoaching/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mwtradecoach/
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