Rick Elmore – Your Entrepreneurial Journey Is the Dream

<p><strong>BIO: </strong>Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert, and the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted.</p><p><strong>STORY: </strong>Rick had a team of software developers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers who were to develop a robot for a seven-figure client. The robot was supposed to be done six months before the client signed the contract. Unfortunately, the team couldn’t deliver, so Rick lost the contract.</p><p><strong>LEARNING: </strong>Let your losses drive you. There’s no straight line to success.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“There’s no straight line to success, it’s going to be constant ups and downs, and there may be many more downs than ups.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Rick Elmore</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-elmore/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Rick Elmore</strong></a> is an entrepreneur, sales, and marketing expert. As the Founder and CEO of <a href="https://simplynoted.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simply Noted</a>, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees.</p><p>Founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Simply Noted has grown into a thriving company with clients of various sizes across the country, including in hospitality, real estate, insurance, nonprofit, franchise, B2B, and others. Rick has served as the company’s CEO since its founding for more than five years and has over a decade of sales and marketing industry experience.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>Rick’s background is in athletics, but in 2017, he had a bright idea to start a robotics and industrial automation company. Rick had no clue what he was doing. He worked hard, and his s