Becoming a Hometown Hero – In Just 7 Minutes with Tom Gaddis

 Learn about the ways on how you can be a hometown hero yourself Find out the common mistakes people do when marketing their business Discover a training ground where you can be helped on becoming aware of the ways you can market a business Resources/Links: Do you want to know more about what Tom Gaddis does and be trained with stuffs related to how he helps people in becoming a hometown hero? Learn more through clicking this link: https://www.offlinesharks.com/resource/ Summary Are you one of those people who have always dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur but have no idea how to go out into the public’s world? Have you ever thought of being a ‘hometown hero’ in your local position? Just like you, Tom Gaddis has always wanted to be self-employed and free from the butt-smooching of the corporate world. He started from zero but he wanted success bad enough. This led him to struck the entrepreneur dream – positioning himself as a local ‘hometown hero’ – that has now resulted to a successful local marketing consulting business he manages. Now, he teaches others to do the same. Check out these episode highlights: 1:55 – Tom’s ideal client: “So, my ideal clients are agency owners, freelancers, people looking to build a business in their local area, helping other local business owners either with their marketing or getting more exposure to what they're doing.” 2:28 – The nature of the problem Tom helps to solve: “So, specifically we help, like the agency owners, the freelancers bring in more qualified prospects.” 3:11 – Typical symptoms clients do: “Well, one obviously, inconsistency of cash flow, right? The kind of up and down inconsistency. But I think another thing is maybe just feeling stuck like they are not really sure where to turn, where to start, and they're kind of forcing sales on potential prospects.” 4:05 – The common mistakes people make before reaching out to Tom: “Typically they're doing a lot of outreach themselves, like they have to physically go chase their prospects, instead of attracting them to what I like to call their sphere of influence.” 4:44 – Tom’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): “So I think the first step is realizing that you don't have to go big right out of the game.” 5:37 – Tom’s Valuable Free Resource: https://www.offlinesharks.com/resource/ 6:37 – Q: What does it mean becoming an entrepreneur? A: “The big turning point was just starting to develop the habits and the actions that successful people take, right? Developing the morning routines, the showing up for appointments on time, showing up prepared.” Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “I didn't need to go big to be successful.” -Tom GaddisClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:09 Greetings, everyone! Another very warm welcome to yet another episode of Marketing the Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, beaming out here from a little castaways beach in the exotic Queensland, Australia, joined today by Tom Gaddis. Tom, good day. So, welcome from down under. Where are you hanging out? Tom Gaddis 0:24 Aloha. I am on Maui in Hawaii. Tom Poland 0:28 Another beautiful part of the world. Why doesn't everyone live where we live? I don't know. Go figure. Tom Gaddis 0:32 It's a rough life,