Lewis Howes: broke to multi-million dollar business owner in

less than 3 years

http://famousinyourfield.com/lessons- from- lewis-howes- footballer- turned-entrepreneur/ April 18, 2013

Lessons from Lewis Howes, footballer turned million dollarentrepreneur

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In 2008, Lewis Howes was an unemployed 25 yearold, sleeping on his sister’s couch and eating hermacaroni and cheese.

Fast forward to today: million dollar man Howes isrunning three companies, publishing books,bouncing between New York and LA, playing onthe U.S. Men’s National Handball team and turningdown roles as hunky love-starved bachelors onnetwork reality shows.

The timeframe from couch surf ing to internetmillionaire?

Less than three years.

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Here’s a quick survey of the main propert ies in the Howesempire:

Inspired Market ing, LLC where he and partner Sean Malarkey create and market onlineeducat ional programs for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

SportsNetworker, a social media market ing resource that helps people break into thebusiness of sports.

Sports Executives Associat ion, a membership site that of fers t raining and exclusivenetworking opportunit ies to professionals in the sports industry.

Books – LinkedWorking and the Ult imate Webinar Market ing Guide, with more on thehorizon.

Speaking – Howes commands f ive f igure speaking fees and turns down more gigs than heaccepts.

Lewis Howes’ hockey-st ick t rajectory f rom broke to mult imillion-dollar business owner started in anunlikely place: LinkedIn, the social networking site for business professionals. During his six-monthst int on his sister’s sofa, recovering from a career ending football injury, Lewis became one of theworld’s foremost authorit ies on LinkedIn.

So, how did Howes, who calls himself a “lifestyle entrepreneur,” create a mult imillion dollar work-from-anywhere empire in three years, while so many “lifestyle entrepreneurs” struggle to pay rent?He credits his dramat ic rise to three specif ic ideas:

1. No fear of huge success or huge failure.

“I’m not worried about whether something might not work. I’ll t ry anything.”

Howes parlayed his sports t raining discipline to the business world, where he focused single-mindedly on achieving his goals, not whether his ideas might fail. This “all out” ef fort t rumps half -hearted over-thinking any day.

“My biggest fear is being average. I want to go full speed ahead with everythingI take on.”

Hust le played a big role in the speed and scale of Howes’ success. While other online marketerswere producing a webinar a month, Howes gave four to seven free training webinars every week.At the end of each webinar, he’d of fer his LinkedIn t raining course to the 500 to 1000 part icipants.

“I’ve applied everything I know about performance, discipline, and excellencein sports to building my businesses today.”

2. Building quality relat ionships.

With early experiences like an introduct ion to internet market ing guru Joel Comm turning into a$6K+ webinar , Howes knows the right person can shorten your learning curve or create life-changing opportunit ies for you.

His approach: become friends with people before they make it big. Research them; f ind out theirinterests and connect ions. Offer them something for f ree. “The more you give to people, the morethey’re willing to reciprocate.”

“I’d rather build friendships than business relationships because businessrelationships will do some things for you, but friends will do anything for you.”

3. Inspiring and inf luencing people to take act ion toward their goals.

Videos of Howes as a football player show him challenging and cajoling team members, makingthem laugh and celebrat ing every success, no matter how minor.

He’s taking that energy, drive and joie de vive and building a massive following beyond the world ofonline market ing. He’s speaking at conferences and host ing meet ups across the country. A fewmonths ago, Howes spoke at the White House, as one of the 2012 Empact100, spot light ing thetop companies in the U.S. run by entrepreneurs age 30 and under.

Howes army wants you

What’s next for Lewis Howes? Don’t look for him to rest anyt ime soon. This just-turned 30 yearold wants to be a household name.

“I’m trying to build a bigger platform for myself. More leverage, more influenceso that I can serve more people.”

The plat form is growing: Lewis is writ ing for Entrepreneur.com and Forbes.com, has almost100,000 followers on Twit ter and is working on a TV show (just not one focused on his love life.)

It keeps going. In 2013, he kicked of f a podcast called The School of Greatness to share “inspiringstories f rom the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and inf luent ial celebrit ies on theplanet.”

“I want to succeed until my eyes bleed.”

Your fame boosting assignment:

This week, take a page from Lewis’ success manual. Find one act ivity in your business and turn upthe volume. Scale it 10x and see what kind of results you get. Your cover story is just around thecorner!