EPISODE 006: Chris Mechanic, CEO at WebMechanics shares how you get more done by focusing on fewer initiatives
Summary: <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Chris Mechanic is the CEO and Co-Founder at @WebMechanix. Chris was recently selected as a finalist by Ernst & Young for their Entrepreneur of the Year award.</span></p><br> <p><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Chris and and his partner (Arsham Mirshah) started WebMechanix in the basement of the family home in 2009. They have grown Webmechanix into a prominent digital agency in the Mid-Atlantic region. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><img src="https://www.webmechanix.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/team-chris-mechanic-2.jpg" alt="" width="186" height="186"></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Highlights from the podcast:</strong></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Add a zero to your price. People will pay more than you think.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Serve people instead of selling to them. </span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Making guarantees, When you take a risk the rewards are huge </span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Focus on what distinguishes you from others. </span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Speaking the same language, use the same metrics for sales to the marketing.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Focus. Limit the number of initiatives that you take on to one or two at a time.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Connect with Chris</span></strong></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismechanic/">LinkedIn</a></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Twiter: @chrismechanic</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Here's a transcription to the podcast:</strong></span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Umar:</strong> Are you ready to become awesomer?. Hi everyone this is Umar Hamid and welcome to the No Limits Selling podcast where sales leaders share their insights and ideas on how to make us better stronger faster and today I'm privileged to have Chris mechanic here the C.E.O. of Web Mechanics Chris welcome to the program.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Chris:</strong> Thank you Umar really excited to be here.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Umar:</strong> So Chris in ninety seconds tell us who you are and what you do.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Chris:</strong> Sure! Yes I'm co-founder and C.E.O. Web Mechanics. Web Mechanics is a performance based marketing and advertising firm. I like to say we basically help our clients get the phones ringing and the cash registers dinging. So, we do online advertising on Facebook, Google ads, we do a lot of analytics a lot of testing of different landing pages and things like that. In a prior world, I was self-employed as an Internet entrepreneur.</span></p><br> <p><span style=""></span></p>
