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  1. DustinH

    Advice for hiring a personal assistant ???

    PEOPLE QUESTION 
    We are looking to hire someone to offload all the minimum wage tasks and stuff that we waste our time with (groceries, cooking, errands, cleaning, picking up kids, etc). Probably looking for someone that is college age or close to it. I would guess it will be 10-20 hours per week of work. Any...
  2. DougieFresh

    Building a team

    IDEA 
    As a health care provider, I have an idea to help make visits more efficient. In order to build this I will need a team of legal, medical and technical expertise. My question is should I hire/partner with people I know well or look elsewhere for people who I have no connection to? What are...
  3. G

    Managing People Well

    PEOPLE 
    It's easy to forget how important people's jobs are to them if you run a business. Your priority must be what is best for the business and what will make it survive. Sometimes firing or demoting people can put them in a dark place. This can go very badly if handled wrong. For those who have...
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    Partnering with Someone You Barely Know

    IDEA 
    Here's a question for you guys. Let's say you have a great idea. You have set up all your IP. You have kicked things off, it's going well, but you are hamstrung for time, and you realize you don't have the ability to be in 10 places at once, nor do you have sufficient technical skill to get...
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    • Thread
    • early stages hiring partnering startup startups
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Ideas, Concept Feedback
  5. NeoDialectic

    Plant Money Trees By Making SYSTEMS

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    I've seen "making systems" and delegating mentioned throughout the forum a few times now (@Antifragile , @Kak , @mikecarlooch , @BizyDad, @MTF , and more) but I haven't stumbled on any recent easy approachable guides to it. It seems like some people are really hesitant because it looks harder...
  6. A

    After success - Need people

    All, I am finally getting results and success in IT staffing along with my own IT Consulting(I am an IT person). So far I have not hired anyone full-time and got lucky in finding good freelancers (after a struggle /trials/after a lot of time) as Recruiters. There are lots of other tasks like...
  7. biggeemac

    This labor shortage is sooooo draining

    PEOPLE 
    That about sums it up. Its mentally exhausting trying to keep a business afloat with staff shortages.....not to mention the fact that some of the staff we have is of low quality. At this point, just having bodies is necessary for us. But finding a GOOD employee now is a little like finding a...
  8. Tom H.

    How to write a job ad

    PEOPLE 
    I’m chatting with a friend right now who is trying to hire a junior developer. He sent me the Upwork post he is using and it’s terrible. I won’t post his ad copy here, but you can just browse Upwork and find plenty of ads that follow the same lines: If I’m a programmer browsing job ads, I...
  9. Kyujin

    Help Moving Forward Hiring App/Saas Developers?

    SAAS / APPS 
    TLDR: I could use some advice about how to proceed with hiring out developers to build Software for my SAAS business. Hello there! I have been working on building out some software to help solve a key problem for real estate agents, and have reached a bit of a roadblock. I have 0 experience...
  10. BizyDad

    A current labor market and creative hiring discussion

    PEOPLE 
    Hey Fastlane Fam, As you may already know I run a search engine marketing agency based in Arizona. Currently at least 30% of my clients currently list finding good workers as their #1 stumbling block. 10% of my clients have stopped running ads in the last 2 months because they can't handle the...
  11. D

    Recruiting online sales team for a masks dropship business

    PEOPLE 
    I started this post Hello how can I do it online? I wanna pay them by commission and what sites are recommended for recruitment? Its fast? How to do de paperwork for the hiring, I need some tips
  12. yungmaghlas

    The Level of Skill You should have to Confirm Your Employees are Competent

    PEOPLE 
    This came to mind as I hired someone from Upwork to design my logo. It was a task that I believe that should have taken 1-2 hours. It required combining 3 reference images into a rather simplistic logo. However my artist took 4 hours and even forgot some features he took. The fact that he didn't...
  13. E

    What questions are they likely to ask me before I hire them?

    PEOPLE 
    Hello everyone, I currently have 2 potential employees who can acquire clients for my agency. I am yet to interview them tomorrow. What questions are they likely to ask me before I hire them? Thank you in advance! :)
    • Eholic
    • Thread
    • digital marketing digital marketing agency hiring interview questions inteview marketing marketing agancy now hiring online busines
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Managing People, Relationships
  14. E

    Personality Test to qualify employees and reduce turnover?

    hey fastlaners, Since first reading the book years ago I've gone through many iterations of businesses and have now built my first business that will cross 7 figures in revenue this year! I started a residential cleaning business and although we had super low employee turnover the first 2...
  15. Envision

    5 Step Guide To Hiring a Rockstar VA To Handle Your Business

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    Alright, figured since Im in somewhat of a hiring phase I would document and outline how I'm going about the process. While I've hired people within the US to manage my warehouse and operations I am going to specifically go over how to find and hire a VA for your company. We start in the...
  16. E

    Developers for a short-term contract

    PEOPLE 
    Hey guys, if you’re searching for highly skilled Developers for a short-term contract, just let me know (no, I'm not from a staffing agency). In our startup, we have a great development team that involved in building chatbots with NLP. Despite we have several customers, we realized that we...
  17. R

    Hiring people at a young age.

    PEOPLE 
    Hey, I'm new here! I used to use Stack Exchange and it's different communities.... but those people are not very nice about their answers, and too much criticism is involved. Anyways, I hope this is better! Background: So, I am 15 and I have a conglomerate that I own and am leading. However, my...
  18. Benacles

    Thinking about hiring on Fiverr? Do not miss this 4 battle-tested tips

    Hi there, Since I’ve been using Fiverr a lot lately, I thought about sharing a few principles I now live by when hiring on that platform. It took a great deal of time and hassle before coming up with these; my sincere hope is that they will save you both. Note that the tips should work just...
  19. J

    STEP BY STEP: how I found 5 unpaid VA's to work with my startup.

    Hello! Just wanted to share this method here (step by step) as it's significantly increased the amount of busy-work that gets out the door each day. I feel obliged to share because it's made a world of a difference for me in my 2nd year, and I think a lot of entrepreneurs could use the help in...
  20. G

    Interview Questions to Hire for Character

    PEOPLE 
    As the old adage goes... "You can Train for Skill, but you can't Train for Character." Disclaimer: I've only hired 5-6 different freelancers over the past year. However, the quality of the Freelancers dramatically improved after utilizing these interview questions. In fact, every hire that...

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