Episode 644 | Buying Back Your Time with Dan Martell

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In episode 644, Rob Walling chats with Dan Martell about founder productivity, delegating, and the difference between being effective and efficient. Dan also shares the key frameworks from his first book, Buy Back Your Time, which was released this week. Topics we cover: 2:40 - Dan’s process for writing his first book 7:56 - The Buyback Principle 12:31 - Hiring and delegating to an assistant 18:02 - The Buyback Loop: Audit, Transfer, and Fill 25:19 - Why no one does it right, and I can’t afford to hire are limiting beliefs 30:53 - 1-3-1 hack Links from the Show: Dan Martell @DanMartell) I Twitter Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire The SaaS Playbook If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Start Up to the Rest of us. I'm Rob Walling, and this week I talk with Dan Martel about his new book,
0:06.0	Buy Back Your Time. I read most of Dan's book in preparation for this interview, and it's really an
0:12.7	interesting combination of productivity, of being effective rather than being efficient, and also a
0:20.0	healthy dose of delegation.
0:22.0	And if you've read books like the 4-hour work week where Tim Ferriss had the first part
0:26.9	about being effective and delegating and then the second part was about starting a business
0:31.2	using AdWords and doing smoke tests and stuff, buyback your time is more of a fully
0:36.5	fleshed out model with a bunch of frameworks.
0:40.1	Really well-done diarams, too, by the way.
0:42.2	The book is gorgeous.
0:43.4	Obviously, Dan hired a good designer to put this together, but I was impressed by the depth and the uniqueness of these frameworks that Dan uses in this book.
0:53.0	In fact, when I got done reading it, I actually told Sherry that
0:56.4	she should read it because she's right in the midst of hiring a chief of staff and getting a lot of
1:01.6	things off her plate. And I felt like there's a lot in this book that she could learn from, a lot
1:07.6	in this book that I learned. And I think if you're someone who has trouble
1:11.4	delegating, has trouble feeling like you're being effective, it's obvious that Dan has spent a lot
1:17.2	of time thinking about this. And this is from a founder's perspective. So it's highly applicable
1:21.6	to folks like you and I. And if you're looking for another book to read, just a couple
1:26.0	weeks ago, I was able to get my book website live.
1:29.3	It's my fourth book.
1:30.2	It's called The SAS Playbook, Build a Multimillion Dollar Startup without Venture Capital.
1:36.3	And it's at SaaSplaybook.com if you want to see all the ringing testimonials and endorsements from folks like Jason Cohen, Darmesh Shah, Noah Kagan,
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