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Oct 2024
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How Ryan Naylor Went From Shark Tank Fai...

John Lee Dumas Of Eofire
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Ryan Naylor is the founder VIVAHR, a platform for entrepreneurs to publish their open positions and get organic visibility on all the top job sites. After flopping on Shark Tank, he built the framework Culture Marketing™.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. The quickest way to get A players to leave your company is to hire a bunch of C players. The greatest way to keep A players is to hire more A players.

2. When you grow a business, it’s not sexy to just have a ton of people work for you. What’s truly sexy is to have a fully purpose-based business with complete alignment in your organization.

3. The companies that focus on telling who they are, what they do, and why they do it in their job posting have 500 percent increase in applicants.

Checkout Ryan’s website and learn more - VIVAHR

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