114: Getting Into The Virtual Assistant Industry with Bryan and Shannon Miles
Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo
Mitch Russo
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Bryan and Shannon Miles is a power couple who grew their company in the virtual assistant industry from two employees to over 60. But as amazing as this story is, like most people, they started with a lot of heart-pounding risks and “burn the boats.” In the spring of 2010, Bryan was working as a VP of consulting for a construction company and was on four to six flights a week. At the same time, Shannon was working for a Fortune 10 company called McKesson. They had two kids at the time, two and five, and they hit a roadblock in terms of how they were operating as a couple and also how they were working in their jobs, coming to a point where they needed to make a change. Bryan and Shannon shares the preparation they did before quitting their job and taking the leap, and talks about how focusing on one vertical helped propel new contracts and referrals and word of mouth.
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| 0:41.9 | host Mitch Russo and I've been an entrepreneur business owner corporate |
| 0:46.8 | CEO venture capitalist and company founder for the last 30 years and if you're just |
| 0:52.4 | joining us for the first time, the mission of my show is two-fold, to uncover your potential and guide you to realizing it and provide you with the tools and the wisdom to get your own company to a |
| 1:03.8 | thousand clients and beyond. Today I'm about to introduce you to a power couple |
| 1:09.2 | who grew their company from two employees to over 60. The best part is that they operate completely |
| 1:17.4 | virtual. Some of you know that I wrote the book on operating completely virtual called The Invisible Organization. |
| 1:24.8 | So I am thrilled to see incredible examples like the one you are about to experience today. |
| 1:30.9 | But as amazing as this story is, like most people, they started with a lot of risk. |
| 1:37.0 | Heart pounding risk. |
| 1:38.0 | And if you've heard the term burn the boats, you will soon see why. |
| 1:42.0 | Welcome Shannon and Brian Miles to the show. |
| 1:45.2 | Hey Mitch, thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. Oh my pleasure I've |
| 1:49.8 | never interviewed a couple before so this is going to be a challenge. |
| 1:53.4 | First one, yay! |
| 1:56.4 | So you guys do have an incredible story and I love what you're doing. |
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