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Forcepreneur is 1-year old. Thank you to all the listeners and people who have supported me along the way. For this special episode, I wanted to have someone from Salesforce and I am glad that Joachim agreed to be a guest. He is currently the GM and EVP of Salesforce Germany and Austria. In this episode I want to highlight the fact that you don't need to be a founder to be an entrepreneur. Joachim joined Salesforce in 2007 when they just had 8-10 people. He is now leading a team of 1000+ "customers" and offices in every major German city plus Vienna. This to me is also entrepreneurial. Joachim's mantra is very simple: create Happy Customers (and employees) and they will do the rest for you. Listen to the episode and let me know what you think. Joachim's twitter: https://twitter.com/JoachimSchreine Joachim's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachimschreiner/

Sergey (https://twitter.com/sergeyer) told me that I should have Pat as guest on my podcast. Now listen to this episode and you will know why . In episode 3, Andrea gave us the advice, just do it; in this episode we take a step further and say do it now. In this episode Pat shares his years of wisdom that he has gained, first working as a freelance video producer, then as a CMO of multi-million dollar company and lately as a Salesforce Solopreneur. He single-handedly published the Proton Blaster app on the Salesforce AppExchange. He also provides consulting on the side. His main advice to all of us, stop procrastinating and Do it Now! Tune in to listen to this last episode of the Solopreneur series. Pat's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patmcclellan/ Pat' twitter: https://twitter.com/patmcclellan__c Proton7:https://proton7group.force.com/protontext/s/

Paul Ginsberg is an OG when it comes to Solopreneurship, therefore, you should not skip this episode if you are planning to become a freelancer in Salesforce ecosystem. Even after freelancing for 6 plus years, I learned from him while recording this episode. I got to know Paul at YeurDreamin 2019 and soon after that he became one of my goto person when it comes to anything Ohana. He is a gem of a person and always open to listen to your ideas. But please be prepared for his honest feedback, it's not for the faint-hearted. He won the prestigious golden hoodie in 2018 and is a founding member of YearDreamin, YeurLeadin and now Non-profit Dreamin. Check-out this episode to learn more about how you can improve yourself as a Salesforce Consultant. Oh and tickets for Non-profit Dreamin are still on sale. Grab them while they last, you will be surprised how much they cost: https://more.nonprofitdreamin.org/registration Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NaturallyPaul Paul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulginsberg/ YeurDreamin: https://www.yeurdreamin.eu YeurLeadin: https://www.yeurleadin.eu Karen Mangia's Success to Lead: https://amzn.to/3hNoMAO Checkout my course on Salesforce Solopreneurship: https://bit.ly/3l1tnzA

If you are in the Salesforce ecosystem, if it will be hard to for you to miss Ines. She calls herself "the mad scientist" and rightly so. She is a consultant, book author, card-game developer, pluralsight course author, agile enthusiast and LGBTQIA+ ally. Ines is someone who completely embodies the Solopreneur spirit. Just like myself, she is a Solopreneur because she wants to have the freedom to do the things she wants to do (read the list above). What I found most interesting during our discussion is, she does not like to be labelled or pigeon-holed into one box. Life has so much to offer, why just be one thing. Ines' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inesgarciaagile/ Her new book: https://amzn.to/3n1S2FZ GetAgile: https://getagile.co.uk Ines on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inescapinezka

My guest is Amnon Kruvi of Kruvi Solutions. He is 14x certified Salesforce MVP. In Part II, we talk business. How to do business in Salesforce ecosystem as a solopreneur, how to acquire customer, rates, what are the general do's and don'ts, how important is the community and how to build your brand. More info: https://forcepreneur.com/be-mindful-about-your-brand/

Everybody has a brand. It's the way you make your tea, coffee, write code, etc. When starting a company, especially if you are a solopreneur, it's very important to think about and be mindful of our brand. As Mr. Jeff Bezos says "Your brand is what people say about you when you leave the room". In this episode, we talk about his beginning, how he got started in the Salesforce ecosystem and how did he come-up with the idea of of Salesforce Musicals. More info: https://forcepreneur.com/be-mindful-about-your-brand/

If you have been active in the Salesforce eco-system for a while, I am pretty sure you have seen the recent rise of Spekit and it's founder Melanie Fellay. She is a true force of nature. She is not only changing how organisations learn and adopt Salesforce but also empowering other women entrepreneurs to go ahead and start their own journeys. What I most love about them is providing employment in Pakistan. That place is full of talented individuals and is quite an untapped market. It gives me immense joy to see them taking the initiative. For more information goto: https://forcepreneur.com/you-are-your-own-mvp/

In this episode, we discuss the early days of FocusOnForce which was basically a blog and how it morphed into a 15 people company that it is today. Martin shares his wisdom on how he runs the business and what are the challenges of running a site like FocusOnForce. In the end we discuss how as small business owner, you need to keep upskilling and get comfortable with uncomfortable feeling of learning new things or doing things you don’t like (finance / marketing).

In todays busy world, we are always occupied with something or the other and whatever free moments we have, such as while ordering a coffee, we get our cellphones out and keep our brain busy. No wonder more people report of burn out than ever before. It is because we are literally frying are brain in the ocean of Information.

You can call him the Salesforce priest because everyone makes their OrgConfessions to him. Ian Gotts is not your regular entrepreneur and this is not his first venture 👨🏽‍💼. This man knows what he is doing and putting his money where his mouth is, business analysis. There are a lot of good nuggets of information, specially if you are starting out and this is your first ride. Give it a spin and let me know what you think

To celebrate the pride month 🏳️‍🌈 , I had the honour of hosting the colourful Miranda Ragland who also started the official virtual Salesforce LGBTQIA+ meetup group. She is also a developer-turned-entrepreneur. We discussed the current state of the LGBTQIA+ community in the Salesforce world and her journey as an entrepreneur.

In this episode we discussed the beginnings of Endiem Inc. and where it is today. The highlights of our discussions are Admin as a Service, having Salesforce as a customer and in the times of Covid-19, giving people Friday off. Listen to the episode. There is so much goodness in it that I just couldn't edit to 45 minutes or less.

Here is the combined rapid fire round with Jason Atwood, Andrea Tarrell and Abhinav Gupta. Enjoy!

Here is a special small episode in Hindi that I did with Abhinav. Many thanks to him for being so kind and generous for doing this with me. Jai Hind

If you don't find a great place to work, where your contribution is truly appreciated; You start something of your own and treat your employees like you wish you were treated. Abhinav introduced revolutionary things like 5-day working / week, paid holiday and revenue share for developers by starting his company Concretio. They might seem normal to you, depending where you are in the world, but back in India, in a small city like Jaipur, these things were unheard of. Listen to the episode and let us know in comments what do you think.

Andrea's beginnings has the common theme that we see often in the Salesforce cosmos. But her growth is anything but common. Having such an explosive growth comes with its own set of challenges which is what we discussed in this episode.

This lady does not mince her words and knows exactly what she wants to do. Listen to the teaser, episode coming next week.

It would be a sin if I spoke to Jason and we did not talk about productivity / Getting Things done. As a GTD practitioner myself, I was curious to know how Jason manages and achieves his goals and targets. While discussing this I realised we have jumped way over time so I decided to do this special episode. Hope you guys like it. I have more specials planned.

For my next episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing and speaking to Jason Atwood. As a GTD fan myself, I was quite eager to know the man behind all those productivity posts and boy I was not disappointed. We discuss how everyone at Arkus is expected to be involved in the community and give back.

Listen to the teaser of upcoming episode with Jason Atwood. Remote work, Result Oriented Work, Contribution to the Ohana and first meetings with clients.