This week Jeremiah is cracking the code on Clubhouse with the man, the myth, the legend - Anthony Disilvestro (aka Tony D Talks)!
He first came on the show last year, just as the pandemic was shutting down the country, and we spent the hour discussing ways in which businesses could survive. A year later, it’s time to talk about growth. He’s been killing it on Clubhouse lately, hosting mind-blowing rooms centered around business fundamentals and knowing your “Why” This week we’re going to dig deep on some of these basics to better situate business owners & entrepreneurs for scale & success in 2021.
Consider yourself invited!
Tune in for this lively conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here.
Jeremiah introduces his message of the week, “What is a problem? A problem is an opportunity”, and introduces his guest Anthony Disilvestro, Jeremiah’s former boss and successful entrepreneur, who has recently become prominent on Clubhouse. The two discuss delegation, which is as Anthony describes the key to getting to 10,000%, and how to find and create the system to successfully delegate. Anthony describes how he is solution based in his business mindset, and that people who are also solution oriented are the best people for his system for his businesses, rather than people who give excuses rather than solutions. Jeremiah and Anthony describe how to determine an employee’s value through interviews, and how one of the most important parts of hiring new employees is training. Anthony explains his number system for employees, 1 through 4, and how all employees in a company fall into these levels, with level 1 being entry level employees, and level 4 being fully trained employees.
Two two discuss how best to invest in employees, specifically through training them, and that empowering your people through communication is how to best invest in them. Anthony discusses the differences between work environments when he was first in the workforces and now in the modern day, specifically the generational differences. Anthony discusses how he believes that communicating is the best way to connect with his employees and help them understand that he cares about them. The two also discuss how in a recent Clubhouse room that one’s employees are their customers, and their CEOs of their brand. They discuss how each section that a waitstaff are working in, can be viewed as their own business, that the waitstaff is the CEO of their own section. Jeremiah describes it as a trickle down effect, and how this affects the pool system in his own restaurant for his employees.
The two discuss how important marketing is to a business, and why the most important factor to think about when marketing your business is to think about whether or not you are making money off of this marketing. Anthony explains how digital marketing is incredibly important, and through AI software, entrepreneurs and business owners can now better understand what advertisements engage customers the most. Jeremiah and Anthony also discuss how marketing is constantly changing, and how years ago they would never believe they would be presently creating Tik Toks to market this business. Jeremiah explains that it is negligent to create a business without a budget for marketing, and the importance of setting money aside for marketing even if the business is underpaid as most startup businesses are. The two also discuss how important it is to invest in video and video marketing, as customers are more often engaged in videos rather than a static advertisement. Anthony explains his marketing strategy and how it changes between his restaurant and construction businesses.
Jeremiah and Anthony discuss why a business should scale, and whether or not scaling is for everyone. They also discuss systematizing your systems, and that it is important to systemize to make sure your systems are successful, and make sense not only to you but your employees as well. That if your system is too convoluted and complex, they will only be understandable to you and no one else. They discuss how scale is for people who have higher ambitions, and do not want to work in their business for the rest of their lives. They also discuss time, and how time has become a currency, and for younger generations time is more valuable, and that for older generations eighty-hour work weeks are nothing, but younger generations want more time for themselves.
