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Before I started our OE Design business I conducted a number of live chats. I have just recently uncovered these, and the information is still relevant today – so I thought I’d add them to our OE Design blog for the benefit of our readers.

This is the edited transcript of the LIVE CHAT conducted by:

Peter G. James Sinclair ( http://www.motivationalmemo.com ) with:

Brad Sugars ( http://www.bradsugars.com/ )

The chat was scheduled for one hour and the subject was:

“THE AWESOME POWER OF THE ENTREPRENEUR”

Peter Sinclair : Hi Brad. Welcome to our live chat.

Brad Sugars : Hi Peter. Thank you. It’s great to be here.

Peter Sinclair : Brad, just to inform our guests I think we should give them a little bit of background on you.

Brad Sugars : Sure.

Peter Sinclair : Brad Sugars is the International Chairman of one of the fastest growing businesses on the globe. He started out with absolutely no capital and had his first business at age 15. Brad retired financially as a millionaire when he was just 26. Today he calls himself a “Billionaire in Training.” He is well on his way to that first billion. Welcome Brad, it’s a pleasure to be able to share this next hour with you at this month’s MotivationalMemo Live Chat.

Brad Sugars : Thanks Peter and thanks for the introduction.

Peter Sinclair : My pleasure. Brad, to commence today’s Live Chat can I ask you for your definition of an entrepreneur?

Brad Sugars : Perhaps I could answer your question in three parts. First, an entrepreneur is a visionary. Second, an entrepreneur remembers that profit is the goal. Third, an entrepreneur is what I call a “can do” type person. What I mean by that is a person who makes the vision become real whilst at the same time returning a profit on that vision.

Peter Sinclair : In your view, what would be the major reason for anyone to want to become an entrepreneur?

Brad Sugars : I think we are all born with a little bit of the entrepreneurial spirit in us. The major driving force behind most entrepreneurs that I have met is a desire to do something that no one else has done before. That may be a desire to achieve more than others thought possible and a desire to play the game they love – the game of business.

Peter Sinclair : Would you say it’s the pioneer spirit that makes up the entrepreneur?

Brad Sugars : Indeed, but it doesn’t always have to be in a new field. It could be a way of doing something new in an old field. Most entrepreneurs are the ones who see an opportunity and have the gumption to step up and do something about it.

Peter Sinclair : Like spotting the gold in a previously mined gold mine? Doing things better, using better technology, better ideas?

Brad Sugars : Or even simply better service, better sales or better marketing.

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One of my staff the other day listened to an Internet Marketing Guru who was rude in his presentation, and at the end of the program asked the audience to sign up and pay $8000 for his services. Now would you pay someone that kind of money and let him be rude to you? I think he should have paid his audience $8000 for listening to him.

I’m afraid to say it, but there appears to be a lot of arrogance in the web design and internet marketing industry. Many are too cocky, because they think that they know more than the rest of society.

As the owner of my own web design company, I think that it’s time for the industry to wake up to itself and realize that we are here to serve our clients.

Before I started OE Design – The Web Designers, the whole world of web design seemed to be a mystery where only the untouchables could ever go.

It’s not true.

Did you know that a lot of things that web design companies are offering you in one hand and then collecting dollars in the other hand are freely available to you?

Now why, as a web designer, am I going to tell you this?  Because I believe that it’s time that the industry stood up on their integrous haunches and told you the truth.

Here are seven untruths that have been spread about by unscrupulous web design & web marketing companies.

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