Episode #3: Vid L. Buggs Jr. | One Tip for Choosing the Right People For Your Team
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Vid L. Buggs Jr. Shares One Tip for Choosing the Right People For Your Team In this episode of Enlightened Entrepreneur, Vid Lamonte Buggs Jr. talks about his amazing journey from being a professional basketball player into becoming a full time business owner. Vid also shares important insights about how to get started with publishing business in today’s market and what motivates him to keep moving forward.

Key Questions Asked:

How did Vid get started with his business and why did he decide to go into publishing? How long did it take for Vid to actually establish his own company? What major roadblocks did Vid have to face when he was starting to establish his company? How has Vid managed to deal with the difficulty of balancing time? Who were Vid’s mentors and what were their roles in the growth of his business? What were the common pitfalls he had fallen into and how can they be avoided by other business owners that are just starting today? What are the best tools or ways to build a team in this time and age? What were the major changes that took place in Vid’s life as well as his mindset as he transitioned from being a professional basketball player to a full time business owner? How is the world of publishing different now than when Vid first got started? Where should business owners focus their efforts if they want to succeed when it comes to self publishing? What has publishing his own book done for Vid and what opportunities has it opened for him?

Highlights of Lessons Learned:

Research, Plan, Delegate

When starting a publishing business, it is important for every business owner to do research, plan, see what the other publishers were offering and what they were lacking and build the company around that. Because the field is constatnly changing, planning and research will help all business owners to maintin their short term and long term goals. Vid’s first major mistake was trying to do everything by himself. His advice to overcome or avoid this is to delegate tasks to other people who are experts in the areas where you are weak or you might not have time for.

Establish a Team

In building a team, it is important that everyone is able to work together, otherwise your company or your product just falls apart. In looking for people to hire, Vid advises you to find people that you have chemistry with. Having a survival mindset and waking up everyday knowing that his team depends on him changed Vid’s attitude about his business.