Brandon Dawson | Business Growth & Scale Expert
The Excellence Project with Eric Worre
Eric Worre
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Brandon Dawson, Co-founder, CEO & Managing Partner of Cardone Ventures, shares his proven business systems that have allowed him to propel numerous businesses to unprecedented heights, his ingenious strategies for nurturing exceptional talent and cultivating a powerhouse team, and his thoughts about the limitless potential of Network Marketing. (1:24:09)
Show Notes:
1:12 - Eric welcomes Brandon to the podcast.
2:28 - Eric and Brdon are surprised to discover their common origins.
3:50 - Eric and Brandon share some fascinating stories about Brandon’s stepdad Bill Austin, Founder & CEO of Starkey Hearing Aids.
10:42 - Brandon details how having “a rich dad” and “a poor dad” influenced him.
12:31 - Eric and Brandon discuss how your upbringing can impact your path in life - for good or bad.
14:35 - Brandon and Eric share varying opinions on whether entrepreneurs are “made” or “born”.
16:30 - Brandon tells us how he barely made it through high school and about the sales job he got after he dropped out of college that led to a breakthrough that serves him to this day.
21:42 - Brandon unveils his secrets to starting a business and the 10 Elements to Growing and Scaling a Business.
29:42 - Brandon recounts how he came up with the 10 Elements to Growing and Scaling a Business and the 11 Breakpoints Between Start-Ups and Billion-Dollar Companies.
34:13 - Brandon explains how he decides what the product should be for a new business and what’s hot right now.
38:56 - Brandon discusses how leadership and meeting employee’s personal, professional and financial goals can lead to the success of a company.
46:38 - Brandon shares an incredible story about a migrant worker who now works for him and makes $750,000 a year.
51:09 - Brandon pulls back the curtain on his ingenious strategies for developing personal, professional and financial goals with your employees.
57:20 - Brandon discloses why if you are not making $100,000 in revenue per employee, you aren’t making any money.
59:30 Brandon discusses tracking employee productivity and behavior depending on whether they are in-person or remote.
1:03:33 - Brandon gives us the 5 things a business must do to attract, hire and keep great talent.
1:09:22 - Brandon reveals his motivation and mission for why he does what he does.
1:13:41 - Brandon shares what he loves about the limitless potential of Network Marketing and how his business systems can be applied to it.
1:19:24 - Brandon explains why, in business, velocity is EVERYTHING and how he relies on the 4 A’s when he’s up against pressure and he’s trying to sort through things.
Resources From This Podcast:
Cardone Ventures: https://www.cardoneventures.com/
Glossary of Terms:
Kanban System: An inventory control system used in just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing to track production and order new shipments of parts and materials.
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| 0:00.0 | When we surveyed from 2009 to 2017, 18, when we surveyed thousands of business owners, |
| 0:05.0 | why did you go into business? Almost all of them did not say so I can go build a 100 million |
| 0:08.8 | dollar business, have a financial freedom, and make a lot of money. Almost all of them said, |
| 0:13.1 | 70% of them said because I didn't want to boss, I didn't want to be told what to do, |
| 0:16.4 | I didn't want a limitation of my earnings, and I didn't want to be accountable to anybody else. |
| 0:19.9 | So here's what I've learned, if you're not committed to your goals, you're not going to care |
| 0:22.4 | about money. Great people are never going to work for a shitty business owner. |
| 0:25.2 | That's a good comment. That's true. I recognize it's my responsibility as a leader to teach people |
| 0:33.6 | how to actually identify how to get what they want. Welcome to the Excellence Project. |
| 0:38.4 | In this episode, we talked to Brandon Dawson, who works with Cardone Ventures and is one of |
| 0:44.2 | the smartest business people I know specifically in the area of growing and scaling a business, |
| 0:54.0 | creating systems around growing your business. I had a lengthy conversation with him because |
| 1:00.8 | I found all of this so fascinating for me personally, and I think you're going to find it |
| 1:05.6 | fascinating as well. So with no further ado, let's jump into our conversation with Brandon Dawson. |
| 1:12.3 | Brandon Dawson. How you doing, man? I'm doing great. It's great to be here with you. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm glad you're here. The growth and scale expert. That's how I think of you. When I think of your |
| 1:24.3 | particular skill set, the ability to identify companies, help them grow and scale their business. |
| 1:32.6 | I think everybody's kind of interested in this idea of growth and scale because I lived in the |
| 1:41.3 | solar entrepreneur world. I think there's different types, the kind of businesses that are |
| 1:50.1 | just one person with an idea, a dream, maybe somebody in network marketing, somebody in |
| 1:55.3 | some sort of small business. Then there's the ones that actually have employees, |
| 2:02.5 | but they don't really have scale. They're kind of owned by their business, |
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