Why You Need to Remove Yourself From Your Business #1726

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Why You Need to Remove Yourself From Your Business In episode #1726, we make the argument that the better your staff and systems are, the better your business will do. Tune in and hear the essential components of a scaling business, the primary responsibilities of a CEO, and how to measure the best uses of your time. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Why You Need to Remove Yourself From Your Business. [00:30] Lessons Neil learned in his early days of running a business. [00:49] You won’t grow your business unless you implement systems. [00:57] The value of hiring staff that is smarter and better than you. [01:10] Replacing yourself using premier staff and systems. [01:54] The three jobs of the CEO: vision, recruiting, and financing. [02:56] Measuring your time using Dan Sullivan’s task prioritization chart. [03:53] Even if you are the best, you are only one person. [04:00] What to look for in people you intend to hire. [04:20] Check out marketingschool.io/pro and join our community today! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Dan Sullivan Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us: Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top level marketing tips
0:06.4	and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.
0:11.4	Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric
0:16.8	Sue.
0:17.8	All right guys, before we start, we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:24.1	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:28.6	And fast your website loads the better off you are with Google's Corvital update.
0:33.2	That makes it super, super important to optimize your site for low time.
0:37.7	And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream host.
0:42.2	So just go to dream host or Google it, find it, check it out.
0:46.1	And it's a great way to improve your low time.
0:50.4	Today we are going to talk about why you need to remove yourself from your business.
0:55.4	But before we do, Neil, how were you in the early days?
0:58.3	Let's say let's go back to ACS consulting or whatever you used to call it.
1:02.6	Yeah.
1:03.6	So back in the day, I was very involved day to day, not just operations, but actually doing
1:09.6	the work.
1:10.9	And what I learned throughout the process, not necessarily during my ACS days, but a few
1:15.0	years later, more so like 10 years later, took me a long time to learn.
1:19.7	You're not going to really grow business and make it big unless you create systems and
1:24.1	processes in place.
1:25.9	The second thing I learned is if you're not hiring people who are smarter than you and
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