How to Take Your Company Remote with Liam Martin (Special Episode)
Marketing The Invisible - A podcast by Tom Poland
Learn the different tools that can help you improve and scale your remote business Know the importance of communication and process design in a remote business Find out all the details you need to know about Running Remote:the largest conference for remote teams Resources/Links: Register for the upcoming Running Remote Conference: Meet the Experts, Grow your Team, Explore Bali. Learn from a great lineup of remote company leaders and innovators! Summary Liam McIvor Martin is the co-founder of two SaaS company, Time Doctor, and Staff.com. He is also the co-organizer of Running Remote - a carefully curated to teach you next-level, actionable strategies and tactics you can utilize the very next day to build & scale your distributed team. They are also conducting the world’s first remote-friendly VC panel. In this episode, Liam highlights how building his two businesses and co-organizing a conference stemmed from his passion for remote working. He will reveal the latest tools and tips to help optimize and scale your remote business. Check out these episode highlights: 00:56 – Liam talks about his two SaaS business: Timedoctor and Staff.com 02:18 – Details about the upcoming Running Remote conference 05:25 – Liam's target attendees for the Running Remote Conference: high caliber international attendees from a variety of industries 06:49 – Liam’s passion to educate and help business scale remotely 08:17 – His key learning in managing his companies Time Doctor and Staff.com, why communication among remote staff is so important 12:33 – Protocol for engaging contractors/remote staff to improve the documentation system process– change the process inside the process document, compensate them through a bonus system, use Gitlab to build your process 16:38 – Liam talks about 'co-worker coffee' feature inside their Slack group, where remote and random co-workers/team members can have 15-minute chats with each other about work and life 17:47 – The pool of speakers, top remote work leaders and topics to be discussed in the upcoming Running Remote conference 22:12 – Important tips from Liam when going to Indonesia for the event. Heads up on what to expect. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Having reliable communication is absolutely important.” -@vtamethodmanClick To Tweet “If you believe a process should be improved, then you have to change the process inside of that process document.” -@vtamethodmanClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to another edition, a special edition in fact of Marketing the Invisible. My name is Tom Poland beaming out to as always from on the sand next to waves, a Little Castaways Beach in Queensland, Australia. Joined today by Liam Martin. Liam, a very... what is it? Good evening or just about good evening in New York is that right? Liam Martin : Good afternoon slash Good evening. Tom Poland: Yes. All right. Drifting into Twilight. The Twilight Zone and this is the twilight zone because Liam is not as you see on the screen Rob Rawson, he is Liam Martin. Liam Martin : It is our podcast account, that's our explanation,. Tom Poland: I can confirm its authenticity. Yes. So folks the reason it's a special edition is we're not doing ...