EP49: “Thrive Time” with Roland Frasier

Roland is a “recovering attorney”, serial entrepreneur and co-founder/principal of 5 different Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies in the e-commerce, e-learning, real estate and SaaS spaces. He has been featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes and major television networks.

Roland has interviewed several big personalities, produced infomercials, ran an international hedge fund, and has advised major brands on various business strategies like how to leverage, grow, scale and exit.

In this episode, Roland discusses how business owners could pivot and adapt to the current situation, and how they would be able to take advantage of high employee productivity even when working from home.

Show Notes:

• Who is Roland Frasier? [0:26]
• How is this time today different from events in the past? [2:34]
• Where do small businesses fit into the big optimistic play? [6:20]
• Acquire a business with no money down [8:27]
• 7 places to look when you have an existing business [12:10]
• How to be a “recovering” lawyer? [13:52]
• Recommended books to read [16:35]
• How can you predict if the landscape changed for good? [23:00]
• Productivity of employees in working from home [24:30]
• The holes in the market today [30:42]
• Why is the advertising budget always the first to be cut off? [34:50]
• How will business owners pivot and adapt? [40:47]
• Everything else is about re-positioning your product [46:00]
• Emotion vs logic [51:31]