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- “We had always wanted to own something of our own and develop a business and lead a team.”
- “If it didn’t work we could always start over again.”
- “If we (Bryan and Shannon) were going to do it (leave stable companies and start a business), we were going to do it together and we weren’t going to do it halfway.”
- “Delegation has been the key to our growth and it is the tool that we have uncapped the lid of our leadership in various levels of the business.”
- “We have a mantra of replace yourself.”
- “What delegation means is looking at the components of what you do and determining who else could be doing them and I use delegation as a form of leader development.”
- “Process-oriented people aren’t like the ones out there with podcasts because it’s not exciting.”
- “We’ve had the most success hiring from within.”
- “Most good decisions are born out of bad decisions.”
- “In the beginning of a company you just don’t know what’s going to resonate with the market.”
- “I do regret not killing some things sooner.”
- “You have to isolate your variables.”
- “You have to know what you’re selling is worth the time and energy you are putting into it.”
- “We used to not do video interviews and it was a mistake.”
- “Something comes across in this non-verbal communication you do not get on the phone.”
- “Don’t bring anyone on your team you wouldn’t want to work with yourself.”
- “We don’t hire people who are just excited about working from home because that translates to ‘I don’t want to work too hard.'”
- “When you filter everything through culture it becomes obvious over time who’s going to work and who’s not.”
- “We trust our gut a lot and we have very intuitive people in our HR.”
- “We vet our prospects as much as we vet our people.”
- “I never bring on a client I wouldn’t want to support myself.”
- “We knew that by starting our company we had a chance to create the business we had always wanted to work for.”
- “We believed enough in our product that we weren’t going to discount ourselves or sell ourselves short just to make a buck.”
- “The one process to focus on that has made a huge difference in our business and made it feel good to do it is the customer experience.”
- “We have doubled-down on relationship management.”
- “We literally hire people that serve on our corporate team to manage the client relationship.”
- “(Early on) we put all our profit back into the business.”
- “The sooner we established a budget for our business the smarter we became about our finances.”
- “Once you establish a budget the easier it is to hold people accountable.”
- “All a budget is is aligning with your plans…It’s assigning dollars to your plans.”
- “I’m afraid of our markets becoming over-saturated.”
- “Just don’t suck at what you do.” – The best way to deal with fear.
- “Don’t try to be all things to all people. Don’t chase shiny things. Hedgehog it…You’ll know you’re in your sweet spot.”
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