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The Sales Podcast

Mandi Ellefson Shows You How To Get Out Of Your Own Way To Grow

Mandi Ellefson helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses so it will either run on its own or become a sellable asset or both. Hear how to do it.

Hosted by Wes Schaeffer  ·  The Sales Whisperer®

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Growth Tips you'll learn in The Sales Podcast...

  • 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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Wes Schaeffer

Wes Schaeffer — The Sales Whisperer®

Host, The Sales Podcast

Sales trainer, HubSpot expert, and host of The Sales Podcast. Wes interviews the world's top sales professionals, marketers, and entrepreneurs—unscripted and without a filter—to give you tools you can put to work on your next call.

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