Is your company working remotely in 2021? In this episode, I interview Liam Martin @ Time Doctor about how to scale your business with a remote workforce.
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“How many mermaid tails do you think are sold every year globally?”
It wasn’t a question I expected to be asked by a SaaS founder.
I guessed 50 million.
But I was short… by 450 million.
Liam Martin, one of my SaaS Academy coaching clients, asked me this question in the latest episode of Escape Velocity.
Liam is the co-founder of both Time Doctor, time tracking software for remote workers, and Running Remote, the world’s largest remote work conference.
I’ve been coaching Liam and his co-founder Rob for years now.
Liam is an open book, happy to share anything about his business, life and relationships. His partner, Marielle, is the CEO and founder of Aqua Mermaid, a site that sells mermaids tails and teaches you how to swim like one too.
...Which explains the unusual question.
It never ceases to amaze me how much money can be made in a unique niche.
And although Liam has some unexpected insights into the mermaid niche, his strength is in his knowledge of remote work.
Amidst a global pandemic, the topic of remote work has gone from interesting to necessary, and many myths around remote work are being quickly shattered.
“When you take someone remote, they increase their productivity by 40%.”
Your ability to assemble a flexible, efficient remote workforce may be an essential step to getting your SaaS off the ground without the upfront costs of office space.
If you want to know more about scaling your business with a remote workforce, then tune in to this awesome interview with Liam.
Although most of my interviews are business focussed, this one gets personal quite quickly, where we touch on topics including:
- The high rates of depression amongst entrepreneurs
- The value of therapy for high-performers
- How Time Doctor went down for 2 days… losing $1M in ARR
- Why VCs are skeptical of remote workforces
- How your remote workforce can be a competitive edge
- What to do when life deals you a tough hand
- The need for empathy in business
- Self-sabotaging and why entrepreneurs can be their own worst enemy
- How to help someone course correct
And by the way... I think it's a good thing not to talk only about business.
As entrepreneurs we're human. We all have good days and not so good days.
What helps us through those times is having a good feedback loop from entrepreneurs that have been through what we're going through and come out the end of the tunnel alive.
The Escape Velocity podcast is my way of having those conversations and giving you another perspective.
Tune in and hang out with us.
Dan “friend from afar” Martell
Don't forget to share this entrepreneurial advice with your friends, so they can learn too: DAN MARTELL
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“You can only keep what you give away.” That’s the mantra that’s shaped Dan Martell from a struggling 20-something business owner in the Canadian Maritimes (which is way out east) to a successful startup founder who’s raised more than $3 million in venture funding and exited not one... not two... but three tech businesses: Clarity.fm, Spheric, and Flowtown.
You can only keep what you give away. That philosophy has led Dan to invest in 33+ early stage startups such as Udemy, Intercom, Unbounce, and Foodspotting. It’s also helped him shape the future of Hootsuite as an advisor to the social media tour de force.
An activator, a tech geek, an adrenaline seeker and, yes, a romantic (ask his wife Renee), Dan has recently turned his attention to teaching startups a fundamental, little-discussed lesson that directly impacts their growth: how to scale. You’ll find not only incredible insights in every moment of every talk Dan gives - but also highly actionable takeaways that will propel your business forward. Because Dan gives freely of all that he knows. After all, you can only keep what you give away.
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