Dan Martell - November 23, 2024


This meeting cost me $100K


Episode Stats


Length

34 seconds

Words per minute

236.61485

Word count

137

Sentence count

8


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how to make meetings hard to create. If you make meetings difficult to create, then they're going to be higher caliber. My default is to push against meetings because I don't want to spend money on them. But if you do the prep work, the thinking, and the strategy that should have gone into the thing we're talking about, way before it ever showed up, then you'll have a much better chance of having a successful meeting.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I remember one time somebody sent an invite to the whole team for a two-hour session on SEO.
00:00:06.360 And I remember I got the invite and I'm looking around and I'm doing the math.
00:00:09.240 I know these people make a couple hundred thousand a year.
00:00:11.080 That meeting cost the company close to $100,000 because somebody sent an email.
00:00:16.080 There might have been one or two people in that room that actually needed to be taught how to do the SEO.
00:00:20.900 My default is to push against meetings.
00:00:23.000 My default is to say, hey, what was the prep work?
00:00:25.880 What was the thinking?
00:00:26.760 What was the strategy that should have went into the thing we're talking about?
00:00:29.820 way before it ever showed up.
00:00:31.220 And if you make meetings hard to create,
00:00:33.580 then they're gonna be higher caliber.