Episode 147 "Foam Hatchet Time"
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We’re Live. Almost Christmas. Foam Hatchet Time. Josh ask if Chuck eliminated a person for having scheduling issues for an interview. Chuck describes the issues he was having with interviews. Chuck is looking for an A+ player! Chuck says hiring is tough and some people are not cut out for the job.
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Chuck talks about automating stuff for his sponsors. John talks about Aaron a new hire, who is doing a great job for Simple Programmer. John talks about the tasks that were successfully completed by Aaron. Chuck ask is John reads fiction books, as he is creating a list. John talks about Snow Crash the book. This book is somewhat Pre-Matrix.
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Josh and John talks about reading their kids books. Chuck talks about his picture in front of the Trump tower. John says to look up the word Bigget. Chuck says he did this for laughs, but it backfired. John talks about about liberty and what it means today.
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Chuck talks about rights to speak rather they are right or wrong. Chuck asks how they plan for the beginning of the year. Josh says that make it up as it goes. Johns says to come up with the plan, then alter the plan. John describes planning based on what he is doing with the podcast awards.
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Josh says they have a pool of ideas and do them based on what is best next. Chuck talks about attending conferences in the new year. John talks about having a mix of thing for the new best and plan building around them, as far as on going things.
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For example, John plans to making the book a huge success. Chuck ask because he is building a team. Chuck ask how John and Josh build and manage their team. John talks about the interesting dynamic they have with Rodrigo at Simple Programmer, as an employee. Josh talks about communication with his helpers for Simple Programmer.
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Josh say the real key is getting the A+ players. Josh says he wants a better promotional calendar. John says if he has to monitor you, he will fire you. Chuck says see progress will help him relax. Josh suggest using Trello to see progress with the team.
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John says he does not hire, unless there is an automation that can be applied to the job. Chuck talks more about things he want to do to build a team for his business. John talks about why he has no hired a personal assistant. John speaks more on assigning tasks to his employees.
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Chuck asks what is a good test project for hiring an executive assistant. Chuck talks about creating a standard operating procedure as a task for the new hire. Josh says he wants his new hires to screw him now on a test job. Chuck ask what he should he pay them for the test task.
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John says to pay them their hour rate they asked. He says this will give him the good idea about how they work. Let them hang themselves..
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John says to vote for the Podcast Awards through December 31st! Next, John says all the EntreProgrammers have their logos, and pay your membership fees. John says he is going to logos ready.
Thoughts of the Week!
Chuck - You can keep moving at a breakneck speed, but you will hit a wall…
John - Set realistic expectations.
Josh - Have multiple channels of things to do…
Episode 146 “Sandwich Artist”
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John, again demonstrates Alexa’s capabilities, another experiment with his office lights. Success! John talks about nonstop Elvin and the Chipmunks songs coming out of Alexa.
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Derick talks about being sick. Chuck talks about his hectic day with phone screenings. John talks about his challenge of bringing him 50K for a job. Josh said he will claim credit for accomplishing this challenge.
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Derick said he loves the idea, and would hire someone on the spot if they can help bring money into his business. John explains how to this challenge works if you had implemented this with a millionaire.
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Chuck talks more about how hiring the right person can help generate revenue for your business. Chuck talks about using KSL radio for trying to hire a local person for his business. Chuck shares how this potential new hire will help his business.
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Derick says that everything that Chuck mentioned as his need for this job, is everything he needs to tell the person for hire. John shares how to look at the situation when looking for a new hire. John talks about how he hires on UpWork, or just hiring in general.
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The EntreProgrammers talk about how looking at resumes maybe worthless, verses meeting the person on a video call to judge their personality. Chuck talks about specifically what he is looking for in a new hire.
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John makes a funny comparison to government employees because they never quit their jobs, because they do nothing. John talks about a ambitious sandwich artist who is trying to make something of there life.
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Derick shares his thoughts on the kind of person who would want this job that Chuck is offering. Chuck says he wants to find the person who is aspiring to do the best at everything that they do and looking for stability.
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John says this person has to have a vision for themselves in the next few years. John says to Chuck that he is not looking for a hanger-on-er. Chuck says that most people who apply for the job are stay-at-home-moms.
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Derick reveals he is going to do a ebook on Docker. Derick is doing a blogpost and the ebook, and getting people up to speed for the pre-sale.
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Derick quickly mentions his plans for his business as of now. John says he want to be one of Derick’ s stick figure on his page. Derick talks about his next experiment with his book.
Thoughts for the Week
John - Finding a Stopping point and do it.
Josh -TSA pre check is worth it.
Chuck - Figure out these procedures!
Derick - Don’t Don't get pneumonia. Take care of yourself.
Episode 145 “ Leotard and Cape”
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John says he just completed his new book on air. John says the entire book took 6 months to write. John says he can now remove the Trello card to write his book in the morning. John tries an on air test with Alexa. Not working so great now. Chuck mentions having similar issues with playing Christmas songs.
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EntreProgrammers discuss ways they use Echo, time out timers and playing music. Josh say he is fed up with Siri as well.
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Chuck talks about trying to find a CRM, but he does not want to pay for duplicate services. Josh asks why Drip was not providing everything he needed. Josh mentions he liked SalesForce. Josh talks about Active Campaign and their small issues.
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Chuck and Josh talk about the cost of the features for a CRM and the tools for email marketing. Chuck also talks about creating a standard operating system for his business.
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Chuck talks about possibly hiring another good contractor, but only locally. He asks if he should put it on Craigslist. Josh thinks that on Craigslist, he will be flying blind. Chuck talks about his plan and criteria for hiring his next person. Josh suggests a COLBY assessment before hiring.
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Josh talks about working with Dan on the Sublime project and audience. Josh shares a story with Dan’s project. Josh shares some information on his training material.
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John talks about how Simple Programmer can scale with different ways to help other businesses to monetize and gain an audience. John says he can give all the secrets, but will they implement it? Josh talks about what the project manager will be doing.
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John talks about running a full marathon distance, 26 miles total. Chuck say he needs to get back into shape to run "one miles." John says he was running at a slower pace the whole time.
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John says he stop wearing his Apple watch because the battery is not performing well. Chuck asks for advice on things to listen to while running. John says Chuck should run in a leotard and cape. John shows off his new customs build laptop.
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Josh talks about how hot his ThinkPad laptop use to get. John talks about how great the system runs so far. Josh also sports the new Simple Programmer t shirt design.
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Chuck says he is now looking into Origin PCs. He may ditch his Mac soon.
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John says its almost about time for the spin off groups to start recording their episodes. John says that they need to start looking for sponsorship for the podcast. Is Digital Ocean still onboard?
Thoughts for the Week
John - You can always do more than you think you can.
Josh - There is so much opportunity, that is yours for the taking..
Chuck - Having a process and automating the process..
Episode 144 “Don’t Stop Twerking The Business”
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Hardware report. John talks about possible reasons why Apple got rid of the headphone jack. Derick talks more about the water resistance of the new iPhone. Josh says he is still waiting for the Air Pods. John talks about his Surface Book.
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Chuck joins with an awful cold. John talks about how the people at Microsoft are going to take back the Surface Book. John talks about his gaming Laptop PC he built.
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Chuck talks about how he is not too excited with the new Apple MacBook Pro. Derick talks about his issues with the 2012 thunderbolt port, and buying a new MacBook. Derick talks about doing returns and buying new external hard drives.
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Derick talks about paying down as things are going well at Watch Me Code. Derick talk about his Cyber Monday sales. But the subscription are growing.
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Chuck mentions that he actually hired someone from UpWork, and doing a great job a Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about the upcoming DevOps remote conference. Chuck is excited about his new hire as she is going a great job.
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Chuck talks about firing the dirty bastard that edit his podcasts. Chuck talks about finding other people to edit his podcasts. John thinks that Chuck should build team that could do some in house editors.
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Derick talks about having a similar situation, also having the need to have control to get things done properly. John says he is almost done with his book, and he thinks it is going to be a great seller. John says they are looking to hire somebody to talk care of the podcast awards project.
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John and Josh talk about their Black Friday sales. Josh mentions that they hit their biggest month. John talks about his sponsorship dealing with hired.com.
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John talks about their experiment with Adwords. Josh talks about the cost of ads and trying to grow their list. Josh talks more about Dan doing a project with Sublime. Josh talks about turn the book into a video training course.
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Josh talks about cloning himself to scale the project. John talks about the benefit of platforms and white labeling.
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Chuck says that people are coming to Simple Programmer for Johns voice, and he should not take anyone else that does not mesh with the Simple Programmer brand.
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John talks about his plan for curating content for technical material. Josh mention to Derick that they could white label his projects. John talks about having to take more electrolytes and how this is helping him feel better and have more energy. Derick talks about the need for electrolytes.
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Derick mentions adding team membership for Watch Me Code, for businesses to use for their teams. Derick says this is only for the annual memberships. Derick says the reason he did this is for businesses to use for the budget money on this platform.
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Mastermind team members! John mentions that the teams should contact him, about the team names, cover art, and other elements for building the podcast mastermind. John ask if it is possible to create a subscription account with PayPal for monthly payments. The goal is to launch the mastermind project for January!
Thoughts for the Week!
Chuck - Sometime things don't go as plan, just adjust your plan next week.
Derick - Don’t stop tweaking you knobs.
Josh - No matter what something is going to go wrong…just deal with it.
John - Suck it up buttercup!