EP 54 - Tim Francis - Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Great Assistant

Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Great Assistant As an entrepreneur, we need to make sure that everything we do has a positive return on investment and that includes getting a great assistant. On this episode, Steve’s special guest is Tim Francis. Tim is an award-winning entrepreneur from Canada and the founder of ProfitFactory.com and GreatAssistant.com. Here are more valuable information on this episode: The difference between hands and feet work and head and heart work. Coming up with Decision Making Guidelines (DMGs) so that employees can operate on their own. The difference between having a consumer mindset versus a producer mindset. And the real value of having a great assistant in an entrepreneur’s daily life. So, sit back and listen to today’s episode as Tim and Steve discuss how entrepreneurs can transition from business operators to business owners by having great people on their team. 1:53 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Tim Francis, founder of Great Assistant.) 4: 14 (Tim talks about what he does day to day.) 11:26 (Tim explains the difference between hands and feet versus head and heart work.) 13:56 (Decision Making Guidelines, a user-friendly term for operating principles.) 39:44 (Tim talks about the consumer mindset versus producer mindset.) 56:22 (Tim explains the value of a great assistant.) 1:13:26 (Tim imparts 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 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. Steve: You're listening to the Awesomers.com podcast episode series and this is Episode number 54 and as always all you have to do is go on over to Awesomers.com/54 to find the relevant show notes, details and the links that we talked about throughout today's episode. By the way, don't hesitate to leave us a comment on that page or why not leave a review while you're online and go to iTunes or Google Play or wherever your favorite place is. Leave us a review and let us know how we're doing. We're trying our best, but we're 54 episodes into this baby. Now, we're dropping them daily so we hope were doing something that you find to be of value. 1:53 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Tim Francis, founder of Great Assistant.) Now today my special guest, you're going to love it, his name is Tim Francis and he has done a number of things in his time and we're going to talk about that in today's episode. But one of the things is he's the founder of Great Assistant, which helps entrepreneurs get – wait for it, a great assistant. What a clever and descriptive term right. Now, for five years he failed again and again with trying to hire assistants and he kind of talks about some of that journey with us today.