#005: Dave Schools (27 yrs) on Embracing Entrepreneurship and Building a 22k+ Blog Following

Dave Schools (@DaveSchoools) graduated from Grove City College in 2012 with a degree in Entrepreneurship. At just 27 years old, Dave is a world-class blogger, author, and entrepreneur.

In less than two years after college graduation, Dave founded Entrepreneur’s Handbook (EH), a Medium publication and blog with 22k+ followers, growing at 150+ new members every day. Amazingly, EH took off in less than 3 years from inception. Capitalizing off of EH’s success, Dave recently launched, Brew Projects, a community of students and mentors committed to bringing to life “side-hustles.” While building all these things, Dave is an Inc. columnist and published his first book, Runaway Millionaire.

In this episode, Dave and I dive into his story and discuss tons of actionable advice, such as:

How to become a world-class writer, even if you hate writing How to find a skill and become an entrepreneur How to turn a poor grade in public speaking into the best college experience How to master relational skills How to monetize a 20k+ blog following and make blogging a career How to write an irresistibly clickable title to score a top-10 article on Inc.com How to launch your own blog and post on external sites without compromising Google rankings How “curating” rather than writing can serve as effective community builder How to market yourself with a 3.0 GPA How to turn leadership in student government into opportunities How to write vulnerably  How to exploit a “first-mover” advantage in blog building How to capitalize on "megatrends" in blogging How to (tastefully) draw people in with "clickbate" How to be a model in college at a top 3 modeling agency (not kidding)

Dave’s “tweetable” advice for college students: “Once you get to know yourself, get to know others.”

Follow Dave on Medium, his personal site, or just drop him an email at [email protected].