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It’s not work, it’s fun. I mean, it’s just what I love to do. I get to sit around all day and talk and write about my favorite thing (Walt Disney World). The whole thing is just a dream job. It really is. If I would have laid out my life, I couldn’t have laid it out any better than what turned out.Carl Trent from dadsguidetowdw.com
In 2018, Carl Trent celebrated his 10th anniversary as the “Disney Dad.” Since he was 4 years old, Carl was fascinated by Walt Disney. He even wrote high school papers about Disney. This passion stayed with Carl all his life. When he approached (early) retirement, he knew he wanted to “do something” centered on Disney.
More specifically, he wanted to help people get the most out of their trip to Walt Disney World.
First, he dabbled a bit as a part-time Disney Travel Agent. For various reasons, this didn’t work out so well. Then he found Solo Build It!. Carl thought to himself: “Build a website around my passion, and make money with it? Heck, yeah!”
DadsGuidetoWDW.com was born. 10 years later, Carl’s “side hustle” had grown into a flourishing business with a team of 50 people.
Most solopreneurs don’t grow their online business that large. They prefer to keep it simple and “fly solo.” And that’s perfectly fine. The beauty of running an online business is that you have that choice — stay small or grow big.
Carl started small as well. He still had his full time job and worked on his site in his spare time. He did all the work himself, as he explains around the 24 minute mark in the video. At that time, Carl didn’t realize that he’d be growing his web-based business into a mid-sized enterprise with a large team.
If you’re thinking that you’d prefer to keep your business small, perhaps adding in a part-time Virtual Assistant — maybe even a full-time employee as you grow in size and confidence — that’s fine. SBI! shows you how to do that, too.
So don’t be intimidated by what Carl has achieved — the most important step he took was to just get started.
Now, that said, something happened to Carl…
He discovered his “inner entrepreneur.”
