526 – How To Scale Your Business Whilst Living Remotely - James Schramko SuperFast Business Online Business Coaching
Summary: In the episode:<br> 00:50 – Accidental discovery<br><br> 03:25 – How Wanderer Bracelets came about<br><br> 04:57 – Fitting the product to a market<br><br> 06:55 – The SCAMPER method<br><br> 09:21 – The mindset that makes it work<br><br> 10:59 – Building the team<br><br> 13:07 – How important are live events?<br><br> 16:23 – A couple of essential tools<br><br> 19:13 – Working the system<br><br> 21:55 – Some challenges of working remotely<br><br> 25:35 – The layout of day-to-day<br><br> 28:32 – A brief call recap<br><br> 29:19 – Knowing who to hire next<br><br> 32:19 – SuperFastBusiness Live from Ben’s viewpoint<br> Ben and other world-class business experts will be sharing insights live on stage at SuperFastBusiness Live 2017 – <a href="http://www.superfastbusiness.com/live" target="_blank">Join them</a><br> <br> <a title="Download PDF" href="https://superfastbusiness.leadpages.co/leadbox/148d08333f72a2%3A9446bc637/5851202055045120/" target="_blank"> Download the PDF transcription</a><br> <br> Transcription:<br> James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. It’s my absolute pleasure to introduce our guest today, Ben Katzaman from <a href="https://www.wandererbracelets.com/" target="_blank">WandererBracelets.com</a>. Welcome to the call.<br> Ben: Thanks, James. Excited to be here.<br> James: The reason for our call is in just a few weeks from the time of recording this, you’re heading over to Australia to talk about how to scale an e-commerce business at my <a href="http://www.superfastbusiness.com/live" target="_blank">SuperFastBusiness Live event</a>, which we’ll also record, in case someone listening to this wants to catch up with that session.<br> The real story behind your introduction to me is that we were sitting beside each other at a dinner in San Diego at Ezra Firestone’s conference afterwards, and you were just sharing with me this incredible journey you’ve been on with your own business. I said to you, “Please come and share this story with our audience.”<br> There are a couple of things there. Firstly, a lot of people are, I think, trying to find out what they should do with their life or what they want to sell is a big, common question. In your case, it just was there. It was surrounding you, and you recognized it. So that was one part of it. The second part is, you’re quite a young man, and you’ve scaled a significant business producing hundreds of thousands of units, selling e-commerce, and you’ve got a large team. You have 40 people in your western team, the United States, and then you’ve got 150 people in your Bali team. So that’s a significant impact that you’re having on the universe in terms of creating stuff. So that’s how this came about.<br> Today, we’re going to talk about what’s involved in growing a business quickly and at scale, but also, and most importantly, remotely. Because you’re not sitting in an office every day, are you Ben?<br> Why work remote?<br> Ben: No, I’m not. I’ve got an office in Florida now as we’ve grown. We just opened a full office a couple of weeks ago. But over the last two years since I started the business, I’ve spent a lot of time in Bali, Florida, Hawaii, Seattle, Oregon, San Diego, San Francisco, LA, Austin, New York, Australia, Bangkok, the Gili Islands.<br> <a href="http://www.superfastbusiness.com/business/526-how-to-scale-your-business-whilst-living-remotely"></a>So I’ve spent more time remote than I have been in one place or with one team or the other. And that allows me to spend a lot of time with people I care about and meet people that I would never be able to meet otherwise, tap into new communities and nurture relationships.
