The First 3 Hires You Should Make in Business

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Your first hires can build momentum—or create problems that slow your business down for years. In this episode, you’ll learn who your first three hires should be, the order to hire them in, and the costly hiring mistakes most business owners make early on. Next Steps: · 🎥 Watch our video The Secret to Hiring “A” Players in a Competitive Market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIA0RSHjuIg · 🛑 Stop making bad hires. Read and implement EntreLeadership’s 12 Components of a Good Hire: https://ter.li/u7t6ji · 🎯 Figure out your business’s next steps in a free consult call with an EntreLeadership team member: https://ter.li/cjk4u0 · 📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message: https://ter.li/ask-us · 📚 Learn about the EntreLeadership System™: https://ter.li/system-p · 💻 Get EntreLeadership Elite™ for your business: https://ter.li/elite-p · ✉️ Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: https://ter.li/enl · 🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit: https://ter.li/Summit-Leadership · 🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series: https://ter.li/masterseries-conference · 📖 Order Dave’s book Build a Business You Love: https://ter.li/b4kru2 Connect With Our Sponsors: · Go to Belay Solutions or text ENTRE to 55123 for their free resource! · Go to Christian Healthcare Ministries and use code ENTRE for a 50% credit toward your first month of membership. · Visit NetSuite today to learn more. Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💰 George Kamel Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's the most expensive mistake most business owners make early on?
0:09.0	It's not pricing, it's not marketing, it's not even their product, it's their first hires.
0:16.0	In fact, who you hire and when you hire them will either make or break your entire business.
0:22.6	So today, Entree Leadership's head coach, John Falcons, is going to walk through who your first
0:28.6	three hires should be, the order you should hire them in, and the biggest hiring mistakes
0:35.0	that trip up most business owners.
0:37.4	Get this wrong and you can stall out before you even get going.
0:41.3	But get this right, and you'll build momentum fast.
0:44.3	Let's get into it.
0:45.3	Thanks, Dave.
0:46.3	When you first start in business, you're overwhelmed.
0:49.3	You're exhausted, and you need somebody, anybody, to help.
0:53.3	So what do you do? You bring on someone you know or the first person that responds to the job posting.
0:59.0	And it feels like help for about five minutes.
1:02.0	Then the wheels start to come off.
1:04.0	This person maybe shows up late all the time, or they miss deadlines,
1:08.0	or they tick your customers off.
1:10.0	So now you're not just trying to run a business,
1:12.7	you're having to clean up somebody else's mess.
1:15.2	The problem is many business owners hire
1:17.8	on how they feel in the moment.
1:20.3	But you've got to be intentional about it,
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