Employee #1 at Consulting.com on Growing from $0 to $26M in 2 Years
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English - March 22, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCareers Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In today's episode I talk to Nick Fisher who was employee #1 at Consulting.com -one of the most successful courses for entrepreneurs online with over 20,000 active students. Before that he was the marketing director at Clever Investor which he helped grow from $5 to $16M/year.
A couple fun facts about Nick:
1) He's spent over $15M in Ads on Facebook and YouTube throughout his career, and has generated over $87M in online course sales
2) He landed his first marketing director job by retargeting the CEO of Clever Investor with Facebook Ads until he gave in
3) He's a huge nerd about personality tests and we talk about how he using those to build a dream team for his new company.
SHOW NOTES:
00:54 Nick's career start (corporate accounting + starting small businesses)
06:35 How Nick landed a marketing director job by retargeting Cody Sperberg with Facebook Ads
10:07 The "test of wits" he had to pass to land the marketing director position at Clever Investor
13:28 Nick's take on the value of working with someone like Sam Ovens or Cody Sperberg
14:51 How much he scaled Cody’s business
15:47 His failures & lessons learned as a young manager at Clever Investor
17:40 Leaving Clever Investor to work with Sam Ovens as employee #1 of Consulting.com
24:45 Lessons learned from working with Sam
31:34 Why he left Consulting.com to start his own company
37:53 Starting his own company Agexa
39:30 Advice to his younger self & general career advice
43:30 Stories of how other early employees at Consulting.com got their jobs there
47:39 How Nick is using personality tests to build a balanced team for his company (similar to Ray Dalio is doing for Bridgewater)
53:25 Positions Nick is hiring for at Agexa
👉 Check out Nick's company Agexa (they're hiring): https://www.agexa.com
🔗 Nick's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickwfish/
💬 And feel free to DM me on Instagram with any feedback for the podcast or any questions: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyjohnmary