Empact: A Business Built By Inspiring Young People – with Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons, Empact, Customer Acquisition, Mixergy Fan, Non-Tech

How does a founder build a business by inspiring young people to build businesses too?

Michael Simmons is the co-founder of Empact, which runs the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, a tour that brings the country’s top founders to college campuses. He also created the Empact100, which is like the Inc500, but for young entrepreneurs. And he’s the author of “The Student Success Manifesto”.

I invited him here today to talk about how he built those businesses.

Michael Simmons

Empact

Michael Simmons is co-founder of Empact, which runs the extreme entrepreneurship tour, bringing the country’s top founders to college campuses.

 

Andrew: Coming up. Do you know how to sell to tough customers? Well,

today’s guest sold to some of the toughest organizations. I’m going to ask

him to teach you how he did it and how you can too. Also, do you want to

see how speaking can you help you build both, credibility and increase your

sales? Well today’s guest has some advice on how you can do it. I’m going

to ask him about that. Anyway, all that and so much more. Coming up.

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The platform that top...

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