TEM250: Eric Branner of Fons

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TEM250: Eric Branner of Fons

The co-founder and CEO of Fons on the value of enthusiasm, his belief in people and why you can safely double your rates.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

  • Eric’s journey from a very small town in rural Virginia to the big city of Seattle and why he feels his education didn’t 

  • Why founding and running Fons has been like being in a band

  • Eric’s desire to be around people who know a lot more about something than he does and where that desire comes from

  • How earlier in his journey he made up for a lack of education with enthusiasm and why he looks for enthusiasm when partnering with people

  • His belief that everyone is able to find that thing that will light them up

  • His honesty about saying yes to too many things at times

  • Why not everything needs to be scalable

  • His decision to cut back on guitar teaching even though he was making six figures doing it because he could feel himself getting burned out

  • Why you are safe to double your rates

  • Why not charging very much for something is a form of hiding

  • The power of situational awareness

  • The lesson that Andrew’s father taught him in high school that has stuck with him to this day

  •  The Goldilocks Rule and how he applied it to starting Fons

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