Heart of A Hero: Dan Baumann
We are pleased to welcome you back for another visit to Heart of a Hero, our recurring blog feature where we explore how our heroes who created amazing business!
In today's Heart of a Hero, you'll meet Dan Baumann, a 20-year contractor veteran that has been instructing his students how to design homes using software since. Learn how Dan was able to go from working for 20 hours days to earning his $250,000 Hero pin in three short years!
Before :
Dan Baumann started working in the remodeling industry in 1976.
He was furious!
Dan had worked as a contractor for almost twenty years , when he stumbled across the new program in 1993 called Chief Architect.
Dan remembers "As when I saw the film, I knew it would make waves in the industry!"
Dan has learned the software completely.
He became so proficient at designing houses with Chief Architect that other contractors started wanting to learn from him how to utilize it.
Sensing an opportunity to escape the constraints of being a contractor Dan began to teach other contractors on how to use the software
A few years ago, Dan just sold the Chief Architect software.
Dan used to go around town, dragging his bulky computers with him in order to conduct talks and demonstrations about how to use Chief architect.
Dan was earning money and helping a lot of people but Dan was looking for a way to leave the road.
Dan enjoyed the steady income that his membership site brought in however, he was unable to use Membergade difficult to use and restrictive.
Dan recalls: "It got to a level where whenever I wanted to create something in that software I would break into cold sweat and I'd cringe as I could tell that the two-hour work would take me a full day!"
Finding :
In the year 2016, Dan joined the site and immediately was enthralled by the ease of use.
Then he slowly transferred all of his business out of his long Master in Chief Architect program to his complete email address.
Dan says, "I was using Aweber before I switched to Active Campaign and about a two years time ago, I completely switched to . Now all of my email is on there, and it's fantastic! All of my emails are on one platform so I don't have to do all of this stuff all over the place has been really cool!"
But the biggest positive change Dan observed in his company following the switch was that he started having enjoyable building websites again!
Rekindled his enthusiasm to his work by making it simple and enjoyable!
Making video and building pages is easy!
Dan couldn't limit his choices to one favorite feature about so he picked two.
Sharing videos and building pages.
Dan enjoys how simple it easy to upload videos online.
All you need to do is drag and drop no coding or HTML required!
Dan is also a fan of the Page Builder.
He says "I love the page builderand the template where you add all the elements in and build it. It's amazing how it functions. It simply works. Just as you would like it to. "
