SaaS Life (saaslife.fm)13 Maj 2022

Ep. 18: Hiring & Expanding the Teams

On this episode of saaslife.fm, Sam Schrup and Chris McAleenan talk about navigating software, sites, and service providers to hire and expand teams. There’s a lot to do and build, but try your best and don’t sweat it to grow and scale!

Highlights from this Episode:

Dialpad: Paying off administrative debt by using a phone call platform.
Text/Multimedia Messaging (MMS): Ability for businesses to offer customer support.
Downfall: Don’t give out your personal cell phone number—customers use it.
Help Scout vs. Zendesk: Pros and cons of switching help site service providers.
Marketing Site: Keep it up-to-date to highlight new features benefiting customers.
Optimize Workflow: Offer development, staging, functional, and production sites.
Checks and Balances: Make time to create processes for housekeeping tasks.
Pop-up Project: When stepping away from business, possibly hire a contractor.
Hire and Fire Slowly/Quickly? Produce and deliver deliverables to stay on track.
Contractors vs. W-2 Workers: When, and where to hire based on core competencies.

Links and Resources:

saaslife.fm

Sam Schrup on Twitter

Chris McAleenan on Twitter

ScrapingBee: Full-stack Marketer Job Listing

Intro music by Monkey Warhol licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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