Self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur Roland Frasier is the Owner of Epic Network and six of the fastest-growing businesses, according to Inc. Magazine, including Epic Network, The Scalable Company, and War Room. In addition to e-commerce, these companies specialize in real estate, e-learning, and SaaS. Roland’s expertise as an investor entrepreneur has helped him acquire and sell over 1,000 businesses with adjusted sales ranging from 3-4.3 million dollars.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- The defining moment when Roland Frasier decided to become an investor entrepreneur
- Where Roland breaks down how acquisitions contribute to scaling a business
- Listen as Roland explains several types of vertical acquisitions
- Roland shares his advice on how to scale a business beyond seven figures
- Hear Roland’s advice on how to increase profits quickly
- The book that shifted Roland’s mindset
In this episode…
Roland Frasier, a co-founder and owner of multiple businesses, has dabbled in several prestigious careers. With degrees in accounting and law, he first garnered licenses in real estate and insurance as a teenager. Still, Roland wasn’t satisfied with his career choices.
All wasn’t lost, however. After consulting with his tax attorney father, Roland understood he had the education and the tools to make a successful career transformation. After a chance meeting with some of his father’s clients, Roland had an aha moment, and the rest, as they say, is history.
In this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, Josh Hadley sits down with Roland Frasier, the Co-founder and Principal of Epic Network. Roland talks about about the moment he knew he wanted to be an investor entrepreneur, his motivation for writing Zero Down, and the impactful book that has shifted his mindset. Additionally, Roland drops several nuggets of advice on how to acquire businesses and discusses his seven acquisition strategies to help seven-figure e-commmerce owners grow to eight-figures.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Josh Hadley on LinkedIn
- eComm Breakthrough Consulting
- eComm Breakthrough Podcast
- Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com
- Roland Frasier on LinkedIn
- Roland on TikTok |Twitter |YouTube |Instagram |Facebook
- Epic Network
- War Room Mastermind
- Nothing Down: How to Buy Real Estate With Little or No Money Down by Bob Allen
- Zero Down: Five Proven Steps to Quickly Acquire Businesses by Roland Frasier
- EPIC Challenge
- Business Lunch
- Ryan Deiss on LinkedIn
- What the Heck Is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS by Gino Wickman
- Verne Harnish on LinkedIn
- Scaling Up: A Gazelle Company
- The Scalable Company
- Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes – But Some Do by Matthew Syed
Sponsor for this episode…
This episode is brought to you by Ecomm Breakthrough Consulting where I help seven-figure e-commerce owners grow to eight figures. Of course…
Listen, Roland Frasier
I started Hadley Designs in 2015 and grew it to an 8 figure brand in seven years.
I made mistakes along the way that made the path to 8 figures longer. At times I doubted whether our business could even survive and become a real brand. I wish I would have had a guide to help me grow faster and avoid the stumbling blocks.
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Episode Transcript:
Josh Hadley 0:07
Welcome to the eComm Breakthrough Podcast where I interview the top business leaders in e-commerce. I’m your host, Josh Hadley. Today I’m speaking with Roland Frasier, a serial entrepreneur. And we will be talking about business acquisitions, strategic relationships, and marketing as different levers that you can pull to help take your business to the next level. This episode is brought to you by eComm Breakthrough Consulting, where I help seven-figure companies grow to eight figures and beyond. If you’ve hit a plateau and you want to know the next steps to take your business to the next level, then go to eCommBreakthrough.com. That’s eComm with two M’s to learn more. Today, I’m really excited to introduce you to Roland Frasier. Roland is a co-founder and principal of six different Inc. Magazine fastest-growing companies specializing in e-commerce, e-learning, SaaS, and real estate. He’s a serial entrepreneur who has built, advised, or sold over a thousand businesses with adjusted sales ranging from three million to $4.3 billion dollars. His specialty is acquiring or partnering with entrepreneurs to scale businesses through acquisitions, strategic relationships, and marketing. Welcome to the show Roland.
Roland Frasier 1:22
Hey, thanks, Josh. Appreciate you having me here.
Josh Hadley 1:24
Yeah, exciting to have you on. I’ve been following you for quite a long time. Obviously, I’ve been a member of your War Room Mastermind group, which I know is coming to an end. And it’s another chapter that you guys will be going into for the scalable company. But why don’t you you’ve got a lot of different, you know, industries that you’re in, why don’t you give our audience just a quick rundown of the, you know, the different things you have going on and holding companies there.
Roland Frasier 1:53
Yeah, so, right now, we have 38, different holding companies across several different verticals. And so basically a holding company, when we go into a new area, then I’ll set up a new company. And I’m a big fan of structuring things correctly. So I use lots of companies. So it sounds like a whole lot. It’s not as hard to manage and keep track of as it sounds. So I like to just talk about the verticals instead of all the companies under them. But yeah, I mean, the areas right now we’re in the middle of a roll up of real estate brokerages. Were rolling up $100 million of profits or EBITA. In that to take public. We’ve got we’re in the middle of an exit on a restaurant company, have got just acquired an interest in 12 franchises through a franchise consulting company. I kind of like these meta deals right now where you acquire an interest in a company that has lots of companies. I just acquired an interest in a certification company that owns 14 different certification companies underneath it. The real estate investing is still doing really well. Our companies that teach people digital marketer.com on how to digital digitally market, scalable, it does business operations and operating systems. And our Epic Network is probably the thing I’m most excited about personally because it’s really helping people see how to do consulting for equity how to acquire with little or no money out of pocket, and, and exit. And then after that to be an entrepreneurial investor because like with real estate right now, as we record this real estate’s crazy high overvalued the stock market crazy high overvalued crypto is working on a revaluation. But it’s, it’s still, you know, it’s pretty volatile. So what I like is I like the ability to invest in businesses that are not on the stock market that you can own and control, because you can acquire them at such great values compared to the ridiculous markups and all those other things. And then you kind of are able to control your own destiny as opposed to hoping the market isn’t insane, or dealing with somebody else that may or may not be doing crazy things with the companies that they own. These are companies you actually own. So like that’s what I’m excited about when I’m in SaaS and e-commerce and, and information and consulting. And kind of all over the board. I sound like I have no idea what I want to do or focus on but it’s just that as opportunities come to get into new niches. And I’m not the person doing that. I’m not the operator. I am the kind of the overarching strategist. It’s really possible to do almost anything.
Josh Hadley 4:39
Yeah, no, I love that. And I love that you have your hands in so many different industries. And I think you’ve kind of found your niche there and like you said, you’re still waiting to figure out what you want to be when you grow up. Right. I
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