“How do you go from working solo to managing a team, and when do you hire and manage your first full-time employee?”

This is one of the most common questions new entrepreneurs ask.

Hiring your first employee is one small step in a multi-level progression you’ll take from being a solopreneur doing everything yourself to a manager-preneur, building a team to execute your entrepreneurial vision.



🎧 Productize Podcast in January

A Community-Based Approach to Launching Your Next Act w/Dan Andrews

Launching a new productized service? Here is how you can leverage communities to find your first few customers and validate your service.




🔍 On Our Radar

Some curated reads to share on Twitter or in your team Slack channel. We're always looking for helpful or inspirational finds on marketing, growth, and and awesome wins from members of our community (you!).
  • Is one of your goals to build a new habit (or improve an existing one)? This post has some great tips.  
  • Your email list is one of the few marketing channels that is controlled by you instead of an algorithm. If you are looking to start or grow a newsletter for your productized service, this blog post shares some excellent strategies.  
  • Quora can be a great way to find your first few customers. This clever hack can help you search the site a lot faster.
  • Do you have a dozen or more unread books on your physical or digital bookshelf? It turns out that’s not a bad thing. Here is why you should have an antlibrary.


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