Dan Martell - October 12, 2024


Climb the ladder to get unstuck


Episode Stats


Length

58 seconds

Words per minute

192.1891

Word count

187

Sentence count

14


Summary

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This is the exact sequence of hires you need to build a business that doesn't need you. I call it the " Replacement Ladder" and it starts at the first rung of the ladder. This is where you start investing the most money in the right talent, but they're really building out your business engine so that you can continue to scale.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 This is the exact sequence of hires you need to build a business that doesn't need you.
00:00:04.720 I call it the replacement ladder. It starts at the first rung of the ladder.
00:00:08.420 This is everything that shows up in your email, processing responses and communication and
00:00:13.180 scheduling. Having somebody support you on the first rung will unlock everything for you.
00:00:17.260 The second rung is delivery. Anything involved in servicing the customer that bought your product
00:00:22.600 or service. So everything from support, scheduling, onboarding, retention. The third rung is marketing.
00:00:28.740 You want somebody to wake up every day,
00:00:30.960 making sure that your website traffic,
00:00:32.700 your social media posts, newsletter,
00:00:34.500 it's set up to build an ongoing marketing engine.
00:00:37.640 The fourth rung is sales.
00:00:39.440 If you can have somebody else
00:00:40.780 that deals with all the sales opportunities,
00:00:42.900 all the conversations, all the follow-up
00:00:45.160 while you are sleeping or traveling,
00:00:47.220 which is the entrepreneurial dream.
00:00:48.700 The fifth rung is leadership.
00:00:50.620 This might be where you start investing the most money
00:00:52.620 in the right talent,
00:00:53.420 but they're really building out your business engine
00:00:56.840 so that you can continue to scale.