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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Harnessing the Power of Automation to Get You Out Of The Field

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Mottola is the co-founder and CEO of Venture L, the leading platform for freelancers to run their business. He is the author of The Human Cloud, and is a Forbes contributor on leadership in the freelance economy. He’s been featured in Forbes and Fortune, and was named one of the top 50 remote work experts to follow.

In this episode, we talked about remote work, technology, automation, freelancing, digital platforms...

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think one major reason for change being scary, special today is that technology amplifies

0:06.3

whatever situation is already present.

0:08.7

So if you have a weak system in place, and I love your term of like delegate versus dumping,

0:14.5

so if you are in an in-office setting and you're a leader who just dumps or you're a leader

0:18.5

who micromanages, technology will not fix that problem.

0:21.8

It'll simply amplify it. And so change can be harder because it's now to make you look worse as a

0:27.7

leader. You're going to be more off time because your things are being going the wrong way. I think that's

0:32.9

the number one reason. And it even translates into hiring freelancers. Like your example right there,

0:37.3

you hire a software

0:38.7

developer and they forget to remember my password button. I'm so not surprised. And, you know,

0:43.7

extrapolate that to large organizations or large systems. Just because you have a technology solution

0:48.5

does not mean that's going to be fixed in any way, shape, or form. But if you do have the right system,

0:53.4

so bring back to your example, if you had a, you know, quality assurance engineer ready to go before you said

1:00.4

check on software developer, they would have caught that. Welcome to the home service expert,

1:06.2

where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing,

1:12.7

sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind their success in business.

1:18.6

Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

1:25.6

I got Matthew Matola on here right now, and we were experiencing a couple little technical issues, but I'll go ahead and introduce you.

1:36.9

So Matt's an expert in remote work, technology, automation, freelancing, digital platforms.

1:42.9

He's the CEO and co-founder of Venture L.

1:46.2

He's a contributor to Forbes.

1:48.8

And the visiting lecturer of Georgia Institute of Technology, Venture L is a leading platform for freelancers to run their business.

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