01. David Gibson - Entrepreneurship 101

The Bruce Bright Breakdown

🖥️ Having a computer and color printer in the 90s: knowing nothing about programming but selling sites back then was hard. 02:12
🤯 People purchased Internet Explorer for $39/mo: David wanted to bring big-scale solutions to small businesses that still run on business cards and letters. 03:35
💪 Building the Zeekee Interactive: Learning to build websites on his own and how they get their first offices. 08:11
🙃 The unusual way of hiring programmers and more unusual ways of finding big clients like Jimmy Buffett back in the day. 14:00
⚡ Building the business and learning as you go: building 30 sites per month and working on SEO, marketing, and the whole package in a time with no social media and YouTube. 24:22
📱 Being a bad leader and a good manager of people: David built the first mobile site in AL when building sites was the center of the universe. 31:50
👉 Change of website era: from glamor to fast consumerism. 38:06
🤔 Working with 30 creative people in a money-making business: disparity between employees' worth and their value. 40:10
😎 Hosting fee as a great revenue and exit value: David’s special policy helped people stay with him for good. 45:20
🔝 Good touches vs bad touches system: working hard on service to customers. 48:22
🤩 Deciding to exit his business: several unfortunate events that resulted in a great sale. 50:47
🏖️ Living on the beach just before COVID hit: entrepreneurs, read Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller. 57:56
📸 Living in a small community brought changes: being jobless and helping his wife Cassidy in the photography business. 1:00:01
🥃 David is the owner of the slowest business in the nicest industry ever: Judge Roy Bean spirits bourbon. 01:04:00
🤓 Exit strategies are totally different for his new business: brand and distribution. 1:06:54
🐐 Stories behind Judge Roy Beans bar: a dirt floor, goat, and a good time. 01:08:34

👉 Connect with Bruce: www.ontargetleading.com

✅ Connect with David Gibson: www.linkedin.com/in/david-gibson-546204

🥃 Try David’s bourbon: www.judgeroybeanspirits.com