[VIDEO] Business Growth And Network Marketing Entrepreneurs Share Their Insights - PART ONE
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Business growth expert Jack Delosa and network marketer Craig Schulze were together in the Yarra Valley with the Entourage Elevate members which is an elite circle of entrepreneurs. Craig is somebody that Jack wanted to amplify to this audience because he knew many of his entrepreneurial clients would draw inspiration and insight from it.
Jack Delosa is the Founder and CEO of Australia’s largest education institution for entrepreneurs, The Entourage, which has a community of 350,000 members. Under his leadership, The Entourage was awarded the 4th Best Place to Work in Australia by BRW magazine.
Jack has been featured in GQ, Sky News Business, Forbes, Financial Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Insider, Tedx, BRW and CEO Magazine just to name a few.
Jack is also a high-profile investor in growth companies such as Q-Biotics and eMerchants (ASX:EML) and founded The Entourage Growth Fund, which invests in upstart businesses.
As one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs, he hosts Sky Business series ‘Entrepreneurs’ and has been listed on the AFR Young Rich List since 2014.
In this two-part series, Jack and Craig share their entrepreneurial journey insights. In part one Jack asks Craig all about his transition from traditional business to network marketing.
Craig Schulze is a lifestyle entrepreneur. Jack Delosa often talks about how to build structures and engines that can scale beyond the entrepreneur. However Craig comes at business from a very different paradigm - and he's been incredibly successful going down that path.
Craig's business spans a hundred countries, he's a multi-award winning personal trainer, he's spoken on stages to audiences of over 15 thousand, and he's got an incredible property portfolio - Jack Delosa
PART ONE: Craig's unconventional, counter-intuitive story and how he become incredibly successful in doing it his way.
For Craig entrepreneurship happened from a very young age. He grew up in a small mining town on the west coast of Tasmania and had to leave home when he was about 15 years of age.
I always had to work hard for whatever I've got, and I've always had that entrepreneurial spirit to think really, really big - Craig Schulze
Craig did go down the traditional path of getting a good education, he became an engineer, but after working in the corporate world for 2 years and the experiencing the model of trading time for money and having that fixed structure of turning up to work every day where you're told when you could go home - Craig absolutely hated it.
After five years of university, 2 years into the career I fired my boss and embarked on an adventure where I set up a fitness club, and I always look at that time as a scary moment, you know, it was like I burnt the boats at the time and I had zero business experience, zero life experience at the time really to be running a business, but what I lacked in that area, my dreams, desires and a will for success was quite incredible. - Craig Schulze
3 years into running a fitness club business, Craig was a multi-award-winning personal trainer. He built a great business there, but as all entrepreneurs want more, he was no different.
So, I went out, and I approached the franchisor of the company to help master franchise the business. I ended up working with him on setting up 20 franchises in Melbourne - I owned five of them myself. - Craig Schulze
MOST PEOPLE WOULD STOP THERE AND CALL THIS SUCCESS
However, for Craig, this was still not enough. Something big was missing. For the return on investment in time and effort - the hours were incredibly long, and quality family time was diminishing in the sea of business responsibilities. The business achievements were racking up, but the lifestyle was heading in the other direction.
But around 2006 was where Craig's life changed dramatically.
I read - or listened to - an audiobook at the time because I'm a very slow reader, and that book was life-changing for me. It was called The Next Millionaires. - Craig Schulze
This was a book guiding people into the key growth areas where the next millionaires where going to be created. So Craig took that as "I'm going to be one of the next millionaires"! Craig transitioned over a period from gym owner to home-based network marketer into what Craig Schulze and Jack Delosa both refer to as a lifestyle entrepreneur.
I built a business into a hundred countries, I work from home, and I've travelled to 60 different cities in the world. - Craig Schulze
Fast forward to 2018 Craig has built multiple 7 figure businesses from home, yet is unceasing in seeking further knowledge and self improvement. Craig joined the Entourage with Jack Delosa this year because he wanted to take his business to an even higher level.
I wanted to learn the latest strategies on how you can connect with people, how you build business, and you know, I guess amplify everything that I had already achieved. I had already built a multiple 7 figure business, and I wanted to take it to the next level. That's sort of where we are at, at the moment. - Craig Schulze
The Five critical areas in The Next Millionaires book are what Craig Schulze used do build "by design" a business and a life around.
regardless of what style of business one is building at home, those five key areas are relevant to just about everybody today. - Jack Delosa
Craig highly recommends listening to successful people and following the pathways of successful people - that's the model you need to do. Don't go and work it out for yourself, because it is going to take a whole lot longer of trial and error.
So when Professor Paul Zane Pilzner put that audiobook in play he was talking about the money moving from the big corporations into these small home-based entrepreneurs, and the areas of key growth at the time were information-based businesses, wellness-based businesses, product distribution based businesses - not product development or product creation - it was product distribution. - Craig Schulze
