Your Success is on You // Brad Rapone of Trade Wraps and TORQ
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In this episode...
00:00 Intro
02:00 Mike’s nickname
03:00 Guest intro
04:40 Corel draw Mac and PC
08:20 Brad’s Backstory
09:00 Experience in the sign business and the failures
15:30 Getting back after the failure.
20:10 Hitting a million dollars
22:20 Steps to make a big change
27:10 More about the business and change
32:20 Cash flow quadrant
36:15 Why trade wraps
38:00 Why Brad over Dan
43:45 Developing TORQ
48:00 Getting into different Industry
54:50 Pricing for TORQ
58:00 Business through text messaging and E-mail
59:55 Building your own system or buying
01:03:20 Enjoying the business side now or miss the old days
01:08:05 What does Brad wants to be remembered for
01:10:20 Outro
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Brad’s Wrap Business
TradeWraps
https://tradewraps.com/
Brad’s CRM
TorqCRM
https://www.torqcrm.com/
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Michael from Letterbox Sign Design
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Peter from Sign Shop Consulting
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