- Duration: 12 min
- Platform: meet
- Source: Read.ai 01JKE4QXWR6AXWQS0PDKCN0H6A (https://app.read.ai/analytics/meetings/01JKE4QXWR6AXWQS0PDKCN0H6A)
Transcript
[Michael Houck]: You guys always need it. [Blake Stewart]: Yeah, those fires at the start of the year were crazy. But yeah. [Michael Houck]: I used to live, the place I used to live that I mentioned was right on the border of the Palisades fire. Really? Yeah. And I was like, I mean, it was so long ago, you know, but still it’s like real to think about that. [UNKNOWN_SPEAKER]: Yeah. [Blake Stewart]: Well, anyway, what’s up? Yeah, man. [Michael Houck]: So wanted to follow up, really enjoyed our chat. I met with some other people, talked internally with the team, and we’d love for you to be part of the team. We’d love for you to come on and help us kind of take over and scale these partnerships and add sales motion and probably do some more stuff over time too. [Blake Stewart]: Awesome. Yeah, it sounds great. I already have a pretty long list in my notes of things I want to do and kind of how to start. So yeah, I’d love to help out. [Michael Houck]: Awesome. Okay. So I have some, I still have to finalize the comp stuff. I’ve been a little sidetracked, but I’ll get that to you tonight. You let me know how it looks and, you know, we can negotiate if needed and all that. But yeah, I mean, it’s the base plus commission and timeline wise, you know, we’re ready to go when you are. So you let me know. Great. Yeah. [Blake Stewart]: I mean, I can get set up today if we want to go ahead and jump into it. But yeah, I could hit the ground running tomorrow. Yeah, with compensation and kind of just expected commission, I guess, you mentioned 60K last for total sales. I guess you said that was a little high for the year. I mean, what’s kind of an expected monthly total sales? [Michael Houck]: Yeah, so our average for the last like eight months or so so has been 22,000 per month, I think, in sponsorship sales. We do have some other big deals that are in the pipeline right now. So we have like another 50K deal that’s likely to close before April. Obviously, we’ll see how that goes. But yeah, average is like 22. And the commission we were doing with the last guy who was doing this for us was 10%. I don’t know how that sounds. [Blake Stewart]: That’s what I expected. [UNKNOWN_SPEAKER]: Yeah. Okay. [Michael Houck]: So let me, let me figure out the base that we can do in terms of like commitment per week, like roughly how many hours would you be able to devote? [Blake Stewart]: I mean, I can hit it hard if you want. I mean, I could go up to 40 if you need. I mean, yeah, I work at home, so I’m able to kind of wake up early and stay working late on the couch at night. Whatever you need, I mean, yeah, I want to get you some results. So, I mean, I don’t think you need to worry about my hours. I’ll be more of a, you know, results proven, kind of show you what I can do kind of deal. So if I didn’t work extra hard, I don’t want you to have to worry about paying me back. [Michael Houck]: But yeah. Okay, cool. I’ll send over something more formal after I get done calls this afternoon. And then I’ll get an onboarding doc ready for you, assuming that all looks good. And either tomorrow or Friday, or I’m sorry, tomorrow or Monday, we can, we can dive in. Sounds good. [Blake Stewart]: The last thing too, is kind of already found some tools that A would be good for, you know, throwing in your newsletter and selling sponsorships ads, but also to use myself. I mean, I don’t know if you have any, you kind of mentioned covering some costs on if we do use, or if we use like LinkedIn sales navigator and all that stuff, just so I can dig in a little [Michael Houck]: bit harder on Anything you need to do the job, we’ll cover. And you don’t even need to necessarily pay for it first out of your end. You can just let me know and I’ll sign up for it. So whatever’s easier is fine. [Blake Stewart]: You can also expense it at the end of the month. [Michael Houck]: It doesn’t matter to me. [UNKNOWN_SPEAKER]: Awesome. [Blake Stewart]: All right. Appreciate it. Great. Awesome. I’ll wait for your email tonight. [UNKNOWN_SPEAKER]: Sweet. [Michael Houck]: I am super pumped. I think you’re going to add much to the team and really take us in this area at least and probably in more areas to the next level. As you’ll find, my bandwidth is spread so thin that my level of organization is not where it should be. Yeah, I hear you. [Blake Stewart]: I’ve got a lot of ideas already listed out. So I mean, as stuff come up, just go ahead and Slack me what you’re working on, where you need help, and how I can jump in because I’m going to be you all for it. So yeah, I’m excited. Appreciate the offer. [Michael Houck]: Yeah, of course, man. Well, um, we can do as many like one on one check ins and things like that the first couple weeks you need to no problem at all. Don’t think that I’m you know, this is top priority bringing someone new onto the team. So great. Yeah, so we’ll just go from there. I’ll shoot you an email tonight. You let me know and then and then we can get started either tomorrow or Monday. [Blake Stewart]: Let’s go. Sounds great, man. Looking forward to it. [Michael Houck]: All right, man. Let’s rock this talk soon. [Blake Stewart]: See ya. Bye.