So. But start selling, you know, from. From day one is another practical tip. No matter what, who cares?
Acquiring Minds
Year 1 in a $300k SDE Services Business
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Just bring the business in. You'll figure it out. So ranking employees, you know, I don't know if I would have been able to truly, I.
I guess I probably would have. Would have known a little bit of the team I was getting had I done this exercise. But basically have your seller rank their employees abc and whatever they say, deduct a point.
So if they say they're A players, they're really B. If they say they're B, they're C. If they're really C, you're probably going to have to fire them.
If they admit that they're a C, they're probably. They're probably really bad. And I did not do that, you know, so you just kind of assume, oh, I'm taking over a great team.
They did 1.5 million last year, of course, you know, so it just slowed down a little bit. But I think we're in a great position now to be able to accelerate and go out and get new business. And we're doing that now.
So it, you know, delayed. I think it delayed our plans probably by six months.
And do you expect to be able to pay yourself next year, or are you still waiting?
Yeah, we have it budgeted for me to start taking something this month.
Congratulations. Yeah.
Yeah. And anything, anything helps. And, you know, my wife's a saint. We've had to definitely, definitely make adjustments, but I think that's part of the grander vision of what we're trying to do.
And on the flip side, and, you know, every single guest that's come on here has said this. The freedom that you have, you know, tomorrow my daughter's got a ENT appointment. I'll be taking her to that.
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