EP 52 - Trent Dyrsmid - Built to Scale: How Systems Drive Business Growth

Built to Scale: How Systems Drive Business Growth Systems are a foundational piece of a successful, highly efficient and profitable operations. Today’s guest is Trent Dyrsmid. Trent is a serial entrepreneur, husband and father. His three private companies generate millions a year in revenue. One of his first companies was even named as Canada's Profit 100 fastest growing private companies two years in a row. He also created Flowster, a platform for building standard operating procedures. Here are more golden nuggets on today’s episode: Trent’s origin story. How he documents systems using the “CTODD” method. The importance of having systems when running a business. What Wholesale E-commerce Business Systems (WEBS) is all about. So listen to today’s episode and learn more about how you can build systems to rapidly scale your company. 1:37 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Trent Dyrsmid.) 3:27 (Trent talks briefly about his business.) 8:03 (Trent talks about his origin story.) 11:58 (Steve shares his story as an aspiring fighter pilot in high school.) 13:02 (Trent reflects on one of his life’s defining moments.) 35:28 (Trent talks about his favorite business tools.) 45:36 (Flowster as a platform for building standard operating procedures.) 49:17 (Trent talks about WEBS.) 1:02:07 (Trents final words of wisdom to Awesomers.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 1:37 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Trent Dyrsmid.) Steve: You are listening to episode number 52 of the Awesomers.com podcast series. and as we've established a tradition at this stage, all you have to do is go to Awesomers.com/52 and you can see all of today's show notes and details and get any little links and things that we talk about in today's episode. Now today my special guest is Trent Dyrsmid and I think I got that right but I never know. And Trent is a serial entrepreneur, husband and father. His three private companies generate millions a year in revenue. Profit magazine even named Trent's first company as one of Canada's Profit 100 fastest growing private companies in two years in a row, before he sold it for seven figures way back in 2008. If you want to discover how to create business systems that will allow you to rapidly scale your E-commerce company, Trent is a great guy to follow. I really appreciate Trent's kind of systemic perspective and his foundation that the systems run the business and the people run the system. It's a great testament to his accomplishments that he's been able to systematize and just keep replicating that success over and over again.