![]() And then we got a couple of my friends together to be able to actually do the conference. I had a ready fire aim philosophy, which is we just ended up booking a venue. So we thought, Well, if we really want to learn about this, probably other people do, too. That’s what we really wanted to learn about. #Liam martin time doctor how to#And there are a whole bunch of articles on how to hire a virtual assistant, or how to build a very small business remotely, but there were very few if not zero articles on how to scale to a billion dollar valuation. And we were trying to figure out how to scale from 100 to 150 people four years ago, and we were just bumping your head up against the wall, because we’re really trying to look for some strategies on how to do this properly. So we choose a location every single year, and everyone flies into that particular location. About four years ago, me and a couple of my team members, we flew all to Baraka in the Philippines where we do our team retreat. Liam Martin 3:34 That’s an interesting story. Michael Bereslavsky 3:29 And why did you decide to start the conference initially? So how do you build billion dollar remote first teams and companies? Not necessarily, how do you hire a virtual assistant? ![]() And we’re really focused on the scaling part. Pretty much anyone and everyone that you can think of that applies to large remote teams, Mika, who’s the CEO of Fiverr, is speaking at this event that’s coming up. Liam Martin 2:47 So we’ve had the founders of Gitlab, of Shopify, of Buffer, Do List, to do list is the is the task management app, you probably know of. And so that the conference for other speakers, are they people that run the remote companies? Michael Bereslavsky 2:33 Yeah, hopefully, in a year or two. So to me, I definitely see conferences going back to the physical realm once it’s possible. Even though we have way many more attendees, it really reinforces that conferences are about relationships, and building long term relationships. But also sponsors really are not willing to pay for a virtual experience. #Liam martin time doctor free#And the vast majority of those were free tickets, a small segmentation of them were paid. But yet, instead of having 2000 people at the conference, we had almost 26,000. And we ended up doing about 350 to $360,000 for that same calendar year. We had a projection of 1.3 million for 2020 by the end of the year for running remote. If anyone tells you that virtual is more profitable than in person, they’re lying to you. Liam Martin 1:38 So, it doesn’t work well. Michael Bereslavsky 1:26 Nice, how does Running Remote work in the pandemic time? Do you have conferences completely virtual? Do the people still pay to attend? And are they the same speakers? And we have 10s of 1000s of people that come in every quarter to be able to learn the strategies on building and scaling remote teams. And then the pandemic happened, and he had to cancel all that stuff. And then off of that, I have a conference called running remote, which is largest conference on building and scaling road teams, we had built that up pretty to about 1000 people pre pandemic as well. And we have no offices, which I never…was probably sounded pretty weird, pre pandemic, but has obviously become the way that we work today. So we have employees in 43 different countries all over the world. Basically, Time Doctor is a time tracking tool for remote teams. Liam Martin 0:37 Yeah, I’ll give you the thirty second pitch. So I’m curious to hear more about the two companies? Would you give us a quick introduction of what those companies are about? ![]() So this is the first time we’re actually speaking. Today we have Liam Martin, from Time Doctor and Running Remote. ![]() Michael Bereslavsky 0:11 Hello there listeners, welcome to this episode of the Domain Magnate Show.
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