Scaling My Side Project From $5K to $25K per month

Post by simoelalj » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

michael2477 wrote: post #6

simoelalj wrote: post #5

Thanks for sharing your experience :) I'm curious about your hiring process, how did you found your candidates and interviewed them?

Great question! AngelList is a great source for inbound. That's how I found the operations person. Right when I started looking for a salesperson Zirtual (a similar company) shut down and laid off all their employees so I sent about 5 people messages on LinkedIn and asked if they'd be interested in chatting. Two responded and I hired one of them. This is a great book on hiring and more about running an interview proc…

Did you hired them as full time employee in the US or as a freelancer?

Post by michael2477 » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

smithy7609 wrote: post #10

@michael2477 The post series is great! I have a couple of questions as I have to build out something similar for my client this week! 1) Did you niches down into verticals, ie insurance etc 2)Do you use a particular tech stack? 3) You nention the free trial to show lead quality, do you help them convert the lead or do you just provide as much information as possible? 4) Typically do you suppply the leads in a spreads…

1/ We focused almost primarily on B2B tech

2/ I ended up partnering with some guys who built a custom scraper. Will describe that in more detail in part 3.

3/ We just provided about 10-15 pieces of info including name, email, and demographic info

4/ We sent Google Sheets or CSV per their request

Hope that is helpful!

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