Inspiring Stories From The Scrappy Founder Of The Perfect Business Summit – with Dan Bliss
This interview is full of short stories about how Dan Bliss, a scrappy founder with limited resources, was able to get customers and close deals.
Like the time he got his vendors to fund his bar. And the time he bought the Hollywood sign and sold little pieces of it as souvenirs. And the time he got people excited about coming to a free show by printing tickets with a big price to make his freebie feel valuable. And the time he got Richard Branson to speak at his conference. And the time he filled his empty bar with paying customers by copying a trick he learned from Wal-Mart.
Listen to the interview for more stories and lots of details. Better still, go to Dan’s Perfect Business Summit were you can also meet many of the entrepreneurs he talked about here. I even negotiated this $75 discount for you, as you’ll hear in the interview.
Dan Bliss is the co-founder of PerfectBusiness and creator of PerfectBusiness Summit. He has launched or turned around numerous businesses, including restaurants, bars, concert clubs, music festivals, magazines, internet companies and others. Starting with no money, Dan built 10 businesses by the time he was 30. He received brief notoriety as “the guy who bought and sold the world-famous Hollywood sign.” Dan is passionate about helping entrepreneurs discover new financing sources or game-changing revenue streams.
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