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Dan Martell
- May 24, 2021
How To Find Customers & Employees Who Will Fuel Your Business Growth (& Won't Churn After 6 Months)
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Usually the smaller you are, then you wear more hats and the bigger you are,
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the less hats you wear. So when you started your company, Charles,
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I'm assuming you wore all the hats and it was you.
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Charles, how's it going, man? Good, thank you.
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Yeah. Pumped for our conversation. A few questions to kick things off. What is the
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name of the company and what do you do? And then how did you start the company? Where
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was the inspiration from?
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Yeah. So the company that we're chatting about today is called Team Town. We do unlimited
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graphic design for flat monthly rate. So we have another business as well. It's a property
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vacation rental and property management company, which has been around for about three and a
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half years or so so in covert times obviously no one's traveling so we pivoted that company at the
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same time we didn't have too much to do so we made this we set this one up as well um yeah it's kind
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of background and the team town's been around since about uh october or november and where's
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the business at today size team yes clients have um we are 14 clients 130 000 annual run rate
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and team is about five.
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Got it.
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What can I help with the most today?
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Three biggest things that I wanted to,
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I guess the biggest questions.
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I was, in my notes,
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I kind of wrote something very specific at the start,
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but just because the fact that we're on one-on-one here,
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I wanted to ask something
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I couldn't just watch on your YouTube necessarily
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and on your course,
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because I went to your growth course,
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completely changed how we did things with the marketing.
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Awesome.
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already um has is crazy like that's probably that's probably you know such a small thing but
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it's not such a big difference um so i'll start just with a kind of a generic question i guess
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is a big one so right now um in about 45 days so we've gone from zero to 130 run rate um i'm just
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wondering from your point of view from from just a general thing we want to be at a million uh annual
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required revenue in 12 months. What do you think the biggest things that you should focus on?
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I mean, the reality, Charles, this is what I see people make the mistake. As a client in
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Growth Accelerator, you see the frameworks that I teach, the growth map, the focus,
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just the attention to doing less but doing the things right. And what I see people do is they
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actually start to get traction, but then they stop doing the things that they used to do
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to get traction, right? They think there's this other thing to do. What I would recommend is
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look at what you're doing and just try to optimize and repeat what's working.
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So if I were to ask you that, what's working right now for you to,
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you know, acquire customers and get them onboarded and sticking around?
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Yeah. So it's the ads. And we actually spoke about a week ago and I asked you,
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what should we do the ads? And you said, if the ads are working, do more of them,
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do youtube ads do you know keep focusing on that and that's kind of all we're going to do now
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which is going to keep focusing more and more on ads and improving and optimizing them so it sounds
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like you're going to keep investing in the ads investing in that what you think's broken or
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missing for you guys to continue to scale well we're so early on right now um i i'm my my thoughts
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just based off looking at the industry of our industry is that churn is incredibly high and
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it's happy churn um when people sign up for a service it's estimated that 50 of your clients
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that sign up will churn within six months and it'll be because of happy churn they just no longer need
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design their projects finished so it looks like the business that we're in we have to scale so
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fast to account for that churn because only 25 of clients will actually stay forever a lifetime
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clients but the average yeah about six thousand dollars and our caps around 600 bucks so what i
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would want to ask is what's true about the customers that stick around versus the ones that don't um
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what we've known is it's it's it's niching down so it would be agencies the one again we're so
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early on this is what i'm guessing is that the agency is so there's two type of clients we have
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the small businesses which will sign up because they need graphic design and they'll turn because
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you know that their company doesn't need it and then there's design agencies that work with 25
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clients and will need design for the rest of time so they won't churn they won't have happy
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churn at least so that's what i'm thinking that's what we want to niche down on a lot
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so what i'm hearing is the ones that stick around have an agency model so they have this ongoing
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need yeah so here's here's the reality is that if you're losing 50 of your customers in the first
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six months, it makes it really tough to build the MRR because you're having to replace the lost MRR.
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So there's a thing called the growth ceiling where essentially if you have 10% monthly churn,
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for example, if you have 10 clients and you're adding 10 clients a month, you're losing. If
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you add 10, you're now at 20, you lost two. So you don't feel it until you get up into the 100
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where you lose 10 and you add 10. Does that make sense? Yeah. So even though your growth is the
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same every month you're adding an x amount of new clients per month because the number is a percent
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of total accounts if you're losing 50 of those clients you're only retaining 30 of the customers
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long term it means every year you're having to replenish 70 of your customer base so it just
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gets harder and harder so a decision you can make today to help long term to avoid hitting what's
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called the growth ceiling um is choosing a better customer to position against and focus on
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in your marketing so that you don't have that 50 churn so what i'm hearing is that that's
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potentially the agency client is that correct yes now have you ever looked at segmenting just
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the agency client in regards to your cost to acquire a customer in your payback period
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that's kind of what we want to start looking at um we don't we we have a lot of age we have not a
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lot we have six agencies now so we can start looking at the numbers our churn right now again
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it's so early on the 71 is because we've had people sign up and say oh this is not what you
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know it just doesn't work for us right so they most of these people quit within our 15 day trial
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period um we've only had one person stay on and then quit after that um but the numbers again
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we've only worked with how many customers have you had 20 i'd say okay super early yeah yeah i mean
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even even when your business is super early you can start to see patterns right and like you know
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one data point doesn't make a trend but there's like you know you can kind of see like this
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customer seems to love us and this customer seems to keep paying and i mean it's just a natural
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thing it's like what kind of customer needs ongoing graphic support one that has a project
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and they come in and they're done or an agency that provides web design and has a continuous
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need for graphic design support right so that's kind of i i think it doesn't take a lot of data
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to make a bet on the second one um so obviously early days you're trying to figure that out what
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are some other challenges you're dealing with in the business that you want to chat about
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so with with both businesses that we have the biggest challenge i think we ever faced is hiring
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and people management um so i am i would say six months ago i was really really bad at hiring i
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think now maybe i'm just bad um starting a little bit better but i i don't really know what i'm
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doing with hiring i don't know how to find hiring a couple troubles we're trying to hire hire and
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train a good sales team um and i'm okay at sales right i've never worked a sales job before but
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obviously as as one of the founders you have i've done all the sales up to after hiring a first
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person and then people management um i am willing to i'm not like you know i'm not the person who
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doesn't trust people and wants to do everything themselves but i've had a hard problem passing
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things on and then them actually being done because you'll pass them on and they'll prioritize their
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own tasks so i guess to kind of wrap that up sum that up is how do you how do you hire well and
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how do you manage them so that they take the tasks on as their own responsibility and kind of work as
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a team yeah i mean recruiting is one of those things just like a sales process that requires
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you know multiple things to make it work right so so a few ideas that might give you some some um
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inspiration one this philosophy that i can't work with you till i work with you
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so that means that i've never hired somebody in my career now because as a developer when i started
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you know i could i could work on with somebody part-time on some code base so i could see if
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they were good and then over time i've used that same principle so i call that the test project
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So everybody I hire has to complete a test project.
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I'll pay them for it if they want, 10 hours.
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And they all do the same test project.
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So if I'm hiring a marketer, I'm hiring a salesperson,
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I'm hiring a customer success person,
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I'm hiring a developer.
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They all execute the same test project
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so that I can see how each one functions
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with clear direction, very little oversight
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and the quality of their work.
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So that is non-negotiable in my world.
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To do that and to have three people at the finish line
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means you have to source a lot of people upfront, right?
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So having a strategy for getting your job placement,
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you know, promoted amongst your network,
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promoted inside the different job banks,
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getting enough applicants,
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having an applicant tracking system like a bamboo or a Breezy
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or, you know, whatever ATS system you wanna use.
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And then the thing that I use to qualify people
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on the front end quickly is a video submission.
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right? And I ask people to submit a 60 second video and they have to answer certain questions.
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And honestly, if they can't figure out how to upload a video to share a link or they can't
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stick to the 60 seconds or whatever. So really you want to create a process for recruiting
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that's repeatable, scalable, that's going to get you high quality candidates. Even in there,
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I do a profile assessment. You can use whatever tool you want. There's Colby, there's Myers-Briggs,
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there's whatever. But understanding the psychology of people, as they come into your world,
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like at the end of the day, one of my mentors, this guy, Brian, who started 1-800-GOD-JUNK,
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he said, you can't teach people to smile. If you require somebody that's facing a customer
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to be high energy, empathetic, et cetera, you need to hire people that have that built into
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their character, right? Like people are who they are. So having a lot of candidates apply,
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using video to qualify people out of the gate, using profile assessments to kind of weed through
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certain characteristics that you need, you know, trying to build team dynamics. If you're a high
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quick start and you hire an assistant, you don't want to hire a high quick start assistant. You
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want to hire a high follow through assistant. Right. And then, um, the test project that to
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me is going to be like, I don't force people on my team. I help them build a recruiting process.
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They get candidates. I do final interviews and then the team decides which people they want to
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work with, right? It's a lot of work, Charles, but I'll tell you what's expensive. Spending six
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months with somebody doing a function, them not succeeding, you spending time training them and
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them leaving, right? So I'd rather spend that time up front to get a really high caliber person
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than to try to fix it after the fact. Most people make this mistake. They hire their cousins and
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referrals and this person that responded to a Facebook comment. That's not how you build great
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companies okay yeah at the moment our process is um we put we put an ad up then we then we handle
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a first interview a second one we bring them in and i guess the biggest thing that you don't do
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you don't want to be doing first interviews you don't ask them to submit a video i will now yeah
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because like even the time to schedule in your calendar that first interview i literally can
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look at 100 videos and know real quick if the person has the intellect i can just tell by the
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the way they talk, I can tell how they answer my questions. I can tell, you know, we ask them,
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what are your top nonfiction books that you've read? They'd never read a nonfiction book. That's
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great. You can't work at my company. If you don't believe in investing in yourself and knowledge,
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you're just not going to gel with the culture of our company. Does that make sense?
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Yeah. So what, if it's across the board, right, let's say it's a lot of the jobs that we hire
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in the other company is more on the client success side. But since we're, I would even consider,
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even though it's three years old, definitely it was still in school.
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about phase. It's not necessarily, and there's no coding or we're not hiring on the marketing scale.
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How would I put them through a part-time thing, like see how they interact with clients or?
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Test project. So for example, on the sales side, we never put them on a call with a real prospect.
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We just test it with our internal sales team. So they might do three sales calls following our
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sales script with an internal sales person, and then they'll vote and feed that back up to the
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sales manager. You want to protect your client base or your opportunities. Usually, if somebody's
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got a job, I'll just say, look, you have 10 hours to get a chance for us to work together. If I can't
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work with you until I work with you, I think it just makes sense to have that person get to know
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me and me know them by working on a test project. Okay. I guess this is a pretty blank question.
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not sure if you can answer that details but do you think if i'm looking at hiring would you think
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that i should hire less people and hire more expensively or hire kind of you know start early
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on and maybe provide a little equity position and pay less and take more people on so so they'd have
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less people with more responsibilities or more people with less responsibilities um usually
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the smaller you are then you wear more hats and the bigger you are the less hats you wear
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so when you started your company charles i'm assuming you wore all the hats and it was you
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right yeah and then as you hired you took a few hats and you gave it to this person and you took
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three hats and you gave it to this person and so it's the specialization versus generalization
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when you're early sub 12 people are going to wear whatever the hats are right so you want to find
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people that have the values the drive the hunger not necessarily the best practices i mean the truth
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is you can go on youtube and learn how to do something you can go buy a course online to learn
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how to do something you can get a mentor you can get a coach but what you can't hire or pay for
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is character and drive right so i would want to find people that have that first and foremost
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and then so they have the characteristic and you can train for the skill now obviously if you're
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hiring car mechanics or designers you want to have that base level experience but once they come in
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you can put them through training to get more advanced experience and you can ask somebody
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that's doing client work to also manage your social media account and i think that that's the
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right way when you're small when you get bigger and you have enough work to have somebody busy
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and dedicated just to that one area of the business great hire and specialize but it's kind of right
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time right action and right now you might be too small to have somebody dedicated so you want them
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them to wear multiple hats okay um last question on that hiring part then we generally so when you
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told us to specialize um on the on the host genius companies of property management we basically were
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doing five different types of marketing before i cut all four of them out and focusing on one of
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them which is something kind of new it's a new sales venture um again pretty not too much background
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information. But in terms of hiring at this mid stage, I'd say at the at the just about the 1
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million mark and recurring revenue, would you say that we should try it out ourselves, see if it
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works and then hire someone or hire someone to figure out the model and work with them?
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So one of the biggest mistakes that people make on sales is that they hire somebody else to do the
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searching and repeatability part. And you can do that if you hire the right person that that
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you know is motivated and curious and hungry and you know that right but the reality is
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there's risk there that they won't figure out fast enough a to make you money or b for them to be
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making enough money to stick around right so i've always built that process in-house so if you think
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of like a normal sales process you have you have qualifying you have closing and you have kind of
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customer success right you have your sales development reps you have your account execs
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and you have your customer success managers typically in the early days the founder does
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all three right the most logical thing to do is once you have enough volume of sales
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you're documenting the whole time you're creating a repeatable process so if you don't have a sales
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playbook that you're starting to copy and paste emails into copy and paste you know outlines of
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the sales script right like answering questions like here's how i deal with objections here are
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are some case studies to recommend, here are some things to note, here are some ways to
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deal with guarantees, here's the offer, and have that documented, then you're never going
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to win hiring people because they need to be trained. And if you got to sit there and
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train every person, it's going to be a losing battle, right? So typically, you do the whole
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stack, then you're going to want to hire people, for me, to onboard new accounts, because that's
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pretty predictable like you know once you get them to buy here's the process this is the first 100
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days here's the sequence of things document it have somebody else execute it right and while
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you're doing it record yourself record the zoom video with your clients record the sales calls
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record the emails like record everything and save it in that document under training so usually once
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you get 20 of your time dedicated to onboarding new accounts give that to somebody else then
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Then the sales development rep side, document that, give that to somebody junior.
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And then eventually what will happen is that your calendar, you qualify harder, that person
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really makes sure you only get on calls with people that are qualified and ready to buy.
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And you'll get to a point where you'll be spending 50, 60% of your week doing sales.
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And then what you do is you'll hire somebody to replace the SDR, the sales development rep.
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They'll become a salesperson.
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they'll sell in parallel to you and usually you want to hire two sales development reps because
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somebody might not work out and then all of a sudden now you have two sales people that are
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qualifying and setting appointments you're now working your way out of sailing and that person
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becomes a primary and you've built this career path for people to start here and eventually move up
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and if they get bored of selling usually about two years into it then you can have a path where they
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can move into a customer success role because they really understand the customers and the product
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that is how founders remove themselves from selling directly okay so from what i understand
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then i should be looking a lot of my time on the sales side
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so where should you be spending your time it it all depends okay so it's it's a nuanced question
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when people go like how do i scale my company i teach this this whole process called the buyback
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principle but the essence is simple there's certain types of activities that bring you energy
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and create value for your business okay if selling takes energy from you and you absolutely hate to
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do it then no it should not be where you spend your time right but if you like to sell and it
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brings you energy and it creates value for your business which it does sales then i would say
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investigate how you spend more time there and everything else on your calendar that's the
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buyback principle is saying i'm going to hire people to add to buy back time out of my calendar
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not just hire people to add capacity. A lot of people hire people like a support person, a
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developer, a salesperson to add capacity. But the only way that we build companies and free up our
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time to work on the business, not in the business, is to have the time to think strategically, to have
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those partnership conversations, to refine the product, to look at the data, to connect and
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correlate innovation and say, oh, we're spending way too much time marketing this customer doesn't
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stick around like that's the strategy side of the business that's on the business right so i'm a big
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fan of saying if you've got any free cash flow you have any profit you have any cash reserved
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and you're trying to hire you should hire first and foremost for your calendar free up your time
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and use the the filter of what what you know what creates value for me what creates the most value
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for me as a business what energizes me the most keep those things and get everything off your
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plate because that energy that you bring to your day at that point will be contagious right because
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all of a sudden you literally wake up and do everything you love to do and when you stop
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loving to do it spend more money buy back that time out of your calendar okay that makes sense
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i'm trying to think which question first then we're still because this kind of came up as you
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mentioned it with the calendar side um so with team town i have i don't have too much of my
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my attention on it right now just because host genius i feel like the team is is not as good
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you know we haven't built a good team culture at the same time so i'm focusing on that
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but let's just say in two weeks i'll be done with that back in the team town at the current moment
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we have two sales guys handling all the sales we have someone doing client success building
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relationships with the customers someone building our product um and managing the design team so
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we're so but we're so early on it feels a bit unnatural to me because i feel like i should be
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more because I guess it's my second startup. I feel like to be more in there, but I'm not saying
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I should. It just feels like, what should I be doing at such an early stage as a CEO?
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Yeah. I mean, Charles, the reality of it is leaders set the strategy, manage the people,
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ensure the reporting's being done, and then work on process, right? Like those are the four areas
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that leadership, right? It's like, so if you have team members there that are doing stuff,
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my question to you would be, what metrics are you monitoring that lets you know and
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them know that they're making forward progress, right? What's your frequency for measuring that,
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right? How is it driving behavior, decision-making from your point of view?
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Never confuse activity and time invested with outputs and outcomes, right? Like you can
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literally spend an hour a week managing a company and having 50 people in that company execute and
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operate because you set up the game so that they can all perform incredibly well and you don't
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think because it's only an hour a week that that's not important that that's what makes you a great
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operator right having to spend a hundred hours a week with a team of four that's producing no
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revenue even though it might feel like you're doing something it's actually very inefficient
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and would just show me that the maturity level
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of your leadership and operation is just lacking, right?
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So always be careful to correlate activity to outcome,
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right, or output to outcome.
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I'm a big fan of having leaders that know how to lead people
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to be clear on the outcome,
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measure the criteria for success,
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and then coach them to win.
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And if that takes a very few amount of hours
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because it's early days
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and there's not a lot of moving parts,
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then that's what you wanna focus on.
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Okay, makes sense.
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So Charles, as we wrap up, I want to ask you, what's been the biggest takeaway from you in regards to the things that I've shared today?
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What are your big kind of ah-has?
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Two of them, I would say, number one would be how we hire going forwards.
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So that totally makes sense.
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When you say it, it's so obvious, but we never did it before, was hire people to give yourself more time.
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So that's number one.
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And I think, I think we were kind of on that process, but we didn't know about it, but
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I'm going to focus a lot on, on, on freeing up time.
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So I can continue to work on the business instead of in the business.
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Um, and number two would be that way of recruiting what we're looking for.
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Um, because even my mind was thinking, you know, 10 hours on interviews when I'm sure
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the video would take, uh, 10 minutes.
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I mean, not only 10 minutes, I can tell, like, I mean, just the act of making a video to qualify
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them out of the process, because they literally have had people apply as an assistant that emails
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and says, I can't figure out how to upload my video to share a link with you. Now, Charles,
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do you think as a tech entrepreneur, I want to have somebody on my team that I have to teach
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something as basic as uploading to a google drive or dropbox no so do you think i might have dodged
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a bullet in that case yeah definitely right or if i'm trying to build a team that's got a
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open culture and a communicative culture and a culture of collaboration that an introverted
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programmer says i don't feel comfortable on video and i have a distributed team and we spend most
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of our time on zoom on video if that's the right hire nope so just just think about what makes a
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great person for your team and what are the filters that you could add and automate so that as people
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work through it and the cool part is as they go through that recruiting process they're telling
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themselves man this is a really smart company thoughtful organized impressive and it just
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continues to sell them on the opportunity because if they make it to the end then they know holy
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moly if everybody went through this process i know i'm not going to work with anybody on the team
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that isn't capable because it wasn't easy to get to this point if that makes sense so even the
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filters you add helps in the sales process to get the right person engaged because they're going to
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feel accomplished and if that's what it's like just to get a job imagine what it's like working
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for the team yeah awesome charles i'm excited for your future man keep up the hustle keep the focus
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and uh focus on the business i mean two businesses not a big fan of i know you got both but if at one
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point or the other you have a chance to focus on one that's usually where the biggest roi is going
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to come from but again it's you need to understand what you want out of life and your entrepreneurial
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journey and and if it's two companies fine but know that if somebody's focused on one they're
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going to be able to compete against you because they don't have the distractions that make sense
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yeah awesome cool well have an amazing day charles good talking yeah cheers
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