Employee to Entrepreneur: Five Days That Changed My Life
By Bill Clanton
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Employee to Entrepreneur: Five Days That Changed My Life is a documentation of Bill Clanton’s journey from being an employee to now being an entrepreneur. Through this book, Bill shares the good and the bad of this transition including life struggles, client/customer relations, and personal growth. The five days that changed Bill Clanton’s life began as a simple five-day vacation. However, through an almost child-like game he fabricated a life changing frame of mind. This book is a quick read that gets down to the point of the story at hand and will inspire anyone who has considered stepping away from the employee mentality. This book is not meant to be a guide as to how to quit your job, this is book is just one entrepreneur sharing his story.
Bill Clanton
Bill Clanton is a loving husband, father of 2, artist, author, song writer and musician. Bill is co-founder and president of the WWN Educational Radio Corp, the parent company of the radio station WBNJ 91.9 FM in Barnegat, NJ. Bill is also founder and CEO of WWN Interactive, a technology consulting service, and Coloring for Life Coloring Books. Bill Clanton’s background spans over 25 years in the marketing, web design, mobile development, and radio industries.
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Employee to Entrepreneur - Bill Clanton
Employee to Entrepreneur
Five Days That Changed My Life
By Bill Clanton
Dedication
Thank you to my wife Natercia for being my best friend and business partner forever.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: The Side Hustle Stays on The Side
Chapter 2: Five Days That Changed My Life
Chapter 3: When the Going Gets Tough
Chapter 4: A Little Investment Goes a Long Way
Chapter 5: I’m Free! Or Am I?
Chapter 6: Life Happens, Or Something Like That
Chapter 7: The Self-Aware Prevail
Chapter 8: Time to Pursue My Passions
Chapter 9: The Clean Road to Success
Chapter 10: Reputation Cannot Be Bought
Chapter 11: 4500 Watts of Pure Potential
Chapter 12: Be Courageous Following Your Mentors
Introduction
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Before I dive into the documentation of my journey from employee to entrepreneur, I feel it best to tell you a little about myself. I grew up near the beautiful Jersey Shore. I have 2 very supportive parents (Bill and Mary Clanton) that always told me that I could achieve anything I put my mind to. I have one younger sister (Robyn) and one younger brother (Steven). Like most people, I graduated high school, got a part time job, and went to college. For the most part through my early career I did what was perceived as the normal sequence of events. We go to college in the hopes that we’ll find both ourselves and the right education that will prepare us for a future career. It is a normal series of events to go to college, get a job, go back to school, get a better job, and keep moving up the ladder.
Prior to college I had a part time job working at a local radio station WJRZ. The station at the time was owned by Mr. Joe Knox. Mr. Knox was kind enough to give a young guy with no experience a job. Something I’ll be forever grateful for. My dad also worked for the same company as an engineer. However, when I entered college my major was to be a music teacher. I soon realized that this was not my true passion, so I changed my major to Broadcast Journalism. After a few years of community college and working part time an opportunity was presented to me. I was offered a full-time position as a copy writer and production director at the radio station where I already worked part time. I jumped at the opportunity. I was fresh out of college and already had a full-time job in a field that was related to my major, something that is rarely seen in this day and age. By now, I had married a lovely, amazing woman that I met at college and a baby was on the way.
This was when I started to notice that I had a knack for being able to see the big picture. Automation was replacing jobs that were done by radio DJ’s for decades. More and more the need for people at radio stations started to decline. From this insight, I took a leap and enrolled myself into a night class at a local trade school. If computers were replacing jobs, I figured that someone had to keep them running. So after about 6 months of night classes and some pretty intense exams I re-entered the job market with a few acronyms after my name. A larger company by this time had purchased WJRZ and I was now working for a larger corporation. It just so happened that the company had an opening in the IT department. So I moved up within the company. After 3 years in the IT department another opportunity was presented to me to head a new department they called Interactive
. This position had me building websites, designing digital assets, editing video and podcasts, for 6 radio stations in NJ. At that time, I truly felt I had arrived! This was an exciting time in my life; I was living the dream, as they say. Well, I did indeed say that for some time, but that was 10 years ago. People change, (insert smug grin here.)
Chapter 1
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The Side Hustle Stays on The Side
How do you define success? This question means something different to everyone. At no time will I push my vision of success on anyone. It helps though to have a vision or mission statement, either written down or in the deep caverns of your mind, which defines what success means to you. Without this it will be very hard to come to grips with what your goals in life are. As you read in the introduction, for me a level of success came in the form of that promotion to head that new department, the Interactive
dept. For years