Your network helps develop your net worth
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- Mandi Ellefson helps consultancy owners free-up 40 extra hours per month and use that time to keep growing their business.
- Her clients transform into what she calls a “Hands-Off CEO.” A Hands-Off CEO leverages what they’ve already built to grow income, create more ease, and cut the chaos in the business. Their business can generate profits for weeks or months at a time– even when the owner is not there.
- Create the business you want so your team can run the business without you
- Grow the business as an asset so you can sell it
- Branding yourself is a good step in the right direction
- Be willing to help your people grow
- Make the interview like an audition
- Screen people with detailed instructions in the application process
- Business owners have similar challenges
- They think about sales all wrong
- Growth is fine but do you have the capacity to hit your goals?
- Systems alone will not grow the business
- You must have the people as well
- People are not machines
- Learn how to motivate your team
- Your best employees tend to come from your network
- Flex Jobs is a good site to find staff
- You as the founder/CEO is always the bottleneck
- Step away from your company for a week in a "stress test"
- Hire for fit rather than skill and train them
- Share profits not equity
- Take the longer term view to bring on and mold your replacement
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