16: Owning a 7 FIGURE AGENCY but living in DORMS?! - Josh Chin & Louis Teo

Josh Chin & Louis Teo, (Founders of Chronos Agency, experts of email marketing) flew 18 hours from Singapore to share their secrets of managing a remote team, hiring top talent, and how they built their ecommerce email marketing agency out of their bedrooms.This was such a fun episode, you definitely don’t want to miss it.

FOLLOW JOSH & LOUIS:Website: https://chronos.agency/Chronos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ChronosAgencyLifecycleMarketingAgency/ Listen to the Chronos Podcast: https://chronos.agency/podcast/ Chronos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chronosagency/ Josh’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshchinn/ Louis’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisteooo/

TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Intro02:10 - Josh and Louis’ Backgrounds08:01 - Andrew's friends were separated for months because of Covid09:33 - What Covid has been like in Singapore11:44 - Josh’s story until 201915:32 - Josh's first time getting paid18:24 - Eddie’s back story20:14 - What Louis does at Chronos20:51 - College Degree VS YouTube University23:29 - When Josh reached out to Louis27:22 - Hiring their first employee27:33 - Why did Josh reach out to Louis29:09 - The first hire at Chronos Agency32:18 - How to structure agency operations around a remote team33:54 - How Chronos structures their pods36:47 - Why they are the Smallest fish in a big pond38:20 - Josh's mindset towards material things43:55 - Running a remote team45:09 - How to hire and fire quickly47:02 - The risk of hiring top level talent48:08 - 4Media's HR structure50:39 - Why changing your mindset is so important55:27 - Why Remote work is more demanding56:35 - Slack vs Discord01:00:05 - How does Chronos manage remote communication01:02:08 - The problem with google docs01:05:17 - Having a rubric for each position01:09:11 - Different managers having different expectations01:11:38 - Josh's first course01:13:07 - The importance of writing and content01:14:28 - The importance of user experience01:18:34 - How Eddie almost got into the water bottle industry01:21:24 - Why Logistics for countries is so important01:27:39 - Why the USA will never catch up with China01:29:03 - The greater good over the individual01:32:42 - Why we should have a system to get rid of laws01:35:25 - Why there are Second class citizens in Malaysia01:38:53 - What are the future goals of Chronos01:42:48 - Growing Vertically vs Horizontally01:46:56 - How Amazon will screw you over01:48:17 - Will SMS marketing be replaced?01:53:57 - Predictions for the future of direct message communication01:57:11 - What will marketing in the metaverse look like?02:05:01 - Will one ecosystem win, or will many rise to the top?02:10:52 - Why did Crypto Punks blow up in the NFT space?02:12:45 - The biggest problem with collecting bitcoin02:13:59 - Fortune Cookie

FOLLOW 4MEDIA:

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChX4gP8T7zOKCTw4UDRkb6w

Website: https://4media.marketing/Join Our Team: https://4media.marketing/jobs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4media.marketing/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@4media.marketing?

EDDIE

Instagram: https://instagram.com/eddiemaalouf Twitter: https://twitter.com/imakegreatads Marketing Course: https://www.brilliantmarketers.com/

ANDREWInstagram: https://instagram.com/andrew_deitsch Website: https://andrewdeitsch.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewdeitsch Andrew’s Other Podcast: https://www.andrewdeitsch.com/podcast