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FtL 32: Lame Hiring Process Caused Regret And Slowed Growth At Copy Hackers, And What They Did To Fix It

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As your business grows you have to make many decisions around hiring employees. Bringing on employees brings on an entirely new set of challenges, and highlights challenge areas in your business you never realized you had. Joanna Wiebe, founder of Copy Hackers, shares the struggles and challenges she endured with her hiring process. The struggle to hire the someone who won’t sleep on the job, to the challenges of training and building a cohesive team. Joanna is a joy to talk with and this is a conversation you want to listen to, even if you never plan to hire an employee. Here’s what Joanna and I discuss: How she put off hiring anyone after being burned by her first hires. Writing a blog is a lot more work than most people think. How her first hire fell asleep on the job, literally. The emotional struggle she faced when firing him, and how it took a long time to recover. How she tried to live with only virtual assistants and the constraints that placed on her. Why she should’ve hired someone immediately and