Episode 269: Lessons From 1 Year of Hiring with Nicole Begley
The Mind Your Business Podcast
James Wedmore
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today's case study of the week reveals 12 months of lessons from an entrepreneur who hired her first employee one year ago. My special guest is Nicole Begley, who is in an awesome and unique niche. She is not only a pet photographer, but Nicole actually teaches and coaches other people building the same type of business. In this episode you'll hear all about her journey and specifically how she let go of the small, "busy" tasks that weren't generating revenue, in order to truly step into the role of the digital CEO!
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In the episode you'll hear:
- How Nicole took her passion and transitioned to the online space
- When she knew that she had a viable online business and what her first launch looked like
- What led to Nicole hiring her first employee in 2018 and some of the stories she was telling herself around getting help
- The biggest mistakes she's made along the way and the lessons that came with them
- How Nicole is approaching the hiring of her next employee and what she's looking at instead of just the cost
- Her one big piece of advice for all entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses
For full show notes and links, visit: http://mindyourbusinesspodcast.com/podcast/269
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Mind Your Business Podcast, episode number 269. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's case study of the week reveals 12 months of lessons from their first year of hiring. So stay tuned. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm James Wedmore and I've built a multiple seven-figure internet business that offers the |
| 0:24.5 | financial freedom to do what I want when I want. And I'm the first to say that |
| 0:30.0 | hard work and hustle are not essential ingredients for your success. |
| 0:36.0 | So how do you build a thriving business from the inside out? |
| 0:40.0 | Now with over 2 million downloads, this is the Mind Your Business Podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | What, what, what, what is up, ladies and gentlemen, James Wedmore here, thank you so much. |
| 0:53.6 | You're tuning in here to another segment. |
| 0:56.9 | Appropriately titled the case study segment here on the Mind Your Business |
| 1:00.4 | Podcast where I like to highlight extraordinary |
| 1:02.8 | entrepreneurs like you who are up to extraordinary things in their |
| 1:05.6 | business today is no exception my special guest is none other than |
| 1:09.5 | Nicole Beggley which I love Nicole she is amazing she's a rock star and she's also in such an epically |
| 1:17.6 | awesome unique niche I love you know I love these unique niches which she isn't just a pet photographer, which is unique in of itself, takes pictures of pets, but she actually teaches and coaches other pet photographers, how to do pet photography and how to build |
| 1:36.8 | a business around it. |
| 1:38.9 | And she has had unbelievable growth. |
| 1:41.0 | She's on track for operating at a million dollars in |
| 1:44.0 | revenue this year and you're going to hear her story, her journey in today's |
| 1:48.9 | episode and we're dialing in more specifically around her and the celebration of her one year anniversary |
| 1:56.4 | of her first employee and how her business has just catapulted in the past year and how much letting go of the small busy non-revenue |
| 2:09.0 | producing activities has helped force her to step into the digital CEO role so she can grow faster. |
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