“Be Patient, All Overnight Successes Take Years” 5 Leadership Lessons With Jean Ginzburg

“Be Patient. All overnight successes take years. As entrepreneurs, we are in this for the long haul. Enjoy the journey.”

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jean Ginzburg, CEO and Founder of JeanGinzburg.com and Ginball Digital Marketing. JeanGinzburg.com is a consultancy and education company focusing on entrepreneurs and small to mid-cap businesses to bring the concepts and adoption of digital marketing to business owners. Our goal is to get 2000 businesses to adopt digital marketing strategies and technology platforms as part of their business in the next 5 years. Ginball Digital Marketing is an agency focusing on growth in the startup space using digital marketing. Jean Ginzburg is also a #1 best-selling author of the book Win New Customers: How to Attract, Connect, and Convert More Prospects into Customers in 60 Days Using Digital Marketing. The book empowers entrepreneurs to better understand their target market and teaches entrepreneurs to discover how to nurture prospects into customers. As a digital thought leader, Jean launched a video blog “Marketing Success in Under 10 Minutes” in August 2016. The YouTube channel covers topics such as marketing strategies, digital platforms and entrepreneurship. Jean has been featured in several publications including Fobes.com and the Huffington Post. And Jean has been a guest on dozens of podcasts and radio shows.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory”?

I came to the states at a young age with immigrant parents. As with most immigrant parents, my family struggled as I was growing up. And I didn’t want myself and my future children to be going through the same struggle — always living paycheck to paycheck. I knew there had to be a better way. My sister and I started a business in 2008, but my knowledge of running a business was very limited in the beginning, so the venture flopped pretty quickly. I went through…