Firing The Man Building a Team – From 1 to 20 Employees in 18 months part 1
Most successful entrepreneurs don’t do it alone. No matter how passionate they are, they can’t be good at everything. Finding the right team members and making them a winning team is what would help you increase your capabilities and grow your business.
In this episode, Ken and David look back at how they started their business, how and where they found the right people who will play a key role in their business growth plus the tools used to manage them remotely.
[00:01 - 24:03] Build a Successful Team
- Ken and David talks about why they built a team
- Hire someone who are good at what you're not
- A list on your to-do list that’s been there for long? You’re not gonna do them, hire someone who will.
- The duo talks about how they started building a team
- Outsourcing remotely and finding great talent that's fit to the company culture
- Running classified ads at local newspaper
- Internal referrals from team members
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- The most valuable members of the team
- Amazon Account specialist - responsible for general maintenance of the store
- It's good if you could hire someone with a little bit of experience so they can bring something new to the table or hire someone more experienced than you
- Email Marketing Expert
- 20% - 50% of some companies reporting revenue comes from email
- Email marketing is a must do for your business
- Operations Manager - helps keep the company on track and identify and implement strategic initiatives
- Ken and David hired this key member when they where between eight to 12 employees
- PPC Manager
- Other key positions hired are:
- Social Media Manager
- Video Editor
- Content Editor
- Web Designer
- Controller
- Data Scientist
- Amazon Account specialist - responsible for general maintenance of the store
- Ideal tools that worked for the duo in running a remote team:
- Slack - used for team communicatino and integrate to other tools such as Google Calendar
- Asana - a project maangement tool. Great for setting up recurring tasks, workflows and projects that involve multiple people
[24:04 - 25:17] Closing Segment
- Tune in next week for part two of this episode where we talk about onboarding and offboarding, when to hire and fire and all other concerns around this topic.
Quotes
“In order to free up your time for you to work on the things that you're a superpower, you need to find help.”
“If something is on your to do list, and it stays on there for a week, two weeks or three weeks, you're not going to do that. And if there's a multitude of reasons why, that is a perfect opportunity to find to say, identify those types of tasks, and then hire out for those because you're okay, you're not going to do them. And if you do, it's going to be a grind for you and it's going to drag you down.”
“If you're selling on Amazon, you have to be good at at PPC.”
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