3 Key Questions to Ask so You Won’t Regret Your First Hire
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As an entrepreneur in the early stages of running your business, there's one sure-fire way to boost your revenue in a big way, making your first hire. |
| 0:16.0 | But that only happens if you make the right first hire. |
| 0:20.0 | Get it wrong? And it could cost you and your |
| 0:23.8 | business big time. When I got ready to make my first hire I didn't want to do it. I |
| 0:28.4 | didn't want employees. As far as I was concerned employees came late, left early, |
| 0:32.2 | and stole while they're there. And then I met a guy named Russ Carroll who had the |
| 0:35.9 | same heart for coaching people that were |
| 0:38.1 | hurting with their money. |
| 0:40.1 | He was there on a mission, a crusade like I was. |
| 0:43.7 | So Russ joined the team to be our very first hire over 30 years ago and coached people, |
| 0:50.6 | counseled people until he retired with Ramsey many, many years later. |
| 0:54.8 | He's an incredible man and he was an incredible hire. |
| 0:57.7 | It's one of the smartest things I ever did. |
| 0:59.8 | He coached thousands of families that I could have never gotten to. |
| 1:05.2 | So when you're hiring, that's a lot of pressure. |
| 1:07.4 | But that's why in today's episode, you'll learn exactly how to make your first |
| 1:12.0 | hire the right way and make it a success. John Falcons from the Entree leadership team is here |
| 1:17.7 | to help you answer the three key questions that'll set you up for success as you grow your |
| 1:23.5 | team. 82% of small businesses in the U.S. are a one-man show. |
| 1:28.3 | And if you're one of them and you're thinking about expanding, the first question you need |
| 1:32.3 | to ask yourself is, how am I going to pay for this person? |
| 1:35.3 | You need a clear path to revenue that covers their pay. |
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