EntreLeadership - How Having The Right Focus Can Eliminate Business Problems
Episode Date: October 16, 2023Today we’ll hear about: • What to know about diversifying and if you should expand or continue your current business model • How to find trustworthy vendors to sell you...r products • Why working with Gen Z is easier than Corporate America makes it seem • How one business completely changed their company culture by temporarily shutting down Links mentioned in this episode: • The EntreLeadership Podcast • EntreLeadership Master Series • Have a question for The EntreLeadership Podcast? Leave a voicemail at 844.944.1070 or submit your question for a chance to be on the show with Dave Ramsey: https://www.entreleadership.com/ask Start growing in business and leadership with the EntreLeadership Newsletter. Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: https://bit.ly/3IRWnsL Support our sponsors: • NetSuite • BELAY • Payority • Trainual Learn more about EntreLeadership Events: • EntreLeadership Summit • EntreLeadership Master Series Learn more about EntreLeadership Coaching: • Elite • Advisory Groups • Executive Coaching • Workshops Listen to all the Ramsey Network podcasts anytime, anywhere in our Ramsey Network app: https://apple.co/3eN8jNq Learn more about your ad choices: https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/company/policies/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mandy is in Atlanta.
Hi, Mandy.
Welcome to the Entree Leadership podcast.
Hi, Dave.
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
What's up?
So my husband and I are in the hospitality industry.
We own a hospitality group here in Atlanta.
We've been in the business for about 20 years and more as well.
We do about $25 million in sales annually and have about 250 team members.
So my question is, as we're trying to do more with what we have and grow our sales to eventually $50 million in the next five years,
how could we do more with what we currently have?
And my thought was getting into the teaching business.
So using some of our leaders, our senior leaders, to teach others what we know.
And so we're already doing that with our own team members and curious about, one, how to compensate
those individuals.
And then also, you know, kind of what would stop them from sort of doing that on their own,
I guess is the question.
You have a successful restaurant business that you're growing and you want to start
teaching people outside of your business?
That's correct.
Yes.
Why?
Well, growing a restaurant and opening a restaurant is very, well, a huge investment of time, energy, money.
So why would you distract yourself?
Well, that's kind of the question.
These people already have, you know, daily tasks.
And I also feel like...
You mean the people on your team that would be doing,
the teaching.
Correct.
Yes.
They don't have the bandwidth to become teachers.
Probably not at the moment, yes.
Why I would want to do this is I feel like we've had a lot of experience and a lot
to share with our industry.
I think this is an area where industry struggles and people development,
training, you know, systems, things of that nature.
So I think we have a lot to offer.
Okay.
I think you have knowledge that when shared would be very valuable with someone.
I don't think there's any question about that.
I struggle with it being a distraction.
And the second thing I struggle with in your situation is you're going to use up resources
and bandwidth you don't have.
So you're going to have to staff this.
Right.
Because the restaurant business is freaking unbelievably hard work.
It is.
And you just want to go ahead and put something else on their plate, no pun intended.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, you guys, your people work.
You work.
You guys work hard.
Or you're not successful.
It's not an option.
This is a showing up thing in your world, isn't it?
Yeah.
No, it is a lot of work.
It is a lot of long hours.
Now, you don't have six hours to put on one.
of your managers. Right, to go film a course. Exactly. You've done at the moment, certainly, yes.
Exactly. So you've got to backfill a manager to give them the bandwidth to do it with a hire,
or you've got to hire someone to just do the teaching. Or you've got a subcontracted to an outsider,
but even then you've got to put your people somehow in front of the camera to do the taping,
so that it's got some credibility, because, you know, I don't want to learn from some actor,
I want to learn from somebody really did it.
And then you go, okay, once I say all of that, then your mind is already going because you're running a $25 million business.
You're not, this is not your first ride on this truck.
So you're already going.
I got an ROI all that.
Right.
So now I've got to make money on this course.
Sure, in the marketing of it, et cetera.
Yeah.
You're opening another business.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm not telling you not to do it.
it. I'm just don't, this is not just something you can do as a hobby in your spare time,
is my point. Because you don't have the bandwidth, too. You don't have that,
your people don't have the bandwidth. So, yeah, so you've got to run out of pro forma and say,
all right, if I staff this and we drop, you know, $100,000 worth of bandwidth in this and
payroll and other things or, you know, having staff up to create margin where I don't have to
create it now to give them room to have the time to step in front of the camera and do the talk,
then I've got to be able to sell the talk and I got the camera equipment I got the
probably subcontract out the production for now I wouldn't bring in production
people do you have a successful operation and then you figure out how you take the
you know the course and figure out who's going to buy it and how much they're going to
pay you for it and can you ROI on that otherwise what you've got is just a ministry
you're just doing this for the good of your heart and just you know helping out
and so whatever checks you write or just
You know, you don't expect an ROI on it.
So I think you're opening another business to do this the way you want.
Occasionally speaking at a restaurant conference or something, that's different than what you're talking about.
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Go to entreleadership.com slash live stream. Jerry is in Bend, Oregon. Hey, Jerry, how are you?
Doing great, Dave. How about yourself?
Well, better than I deserve. What's up?
Well, got to see your predictable guy on that answer. But hey, thanks for, thanks for
having me. So a little bit of background on my business. I started a welding business right after
college about four years ago. And things are going really well. Last year, we did about $600,000
in revenue. This year we'll probably do $1 million to $1.2 million in revenue. Wow. Yeah, thanks.
And probably we'll met around $400,000. So kind of what we specialize in, we build and sell
flatbeds for pickup trucks, which are the aftermarket upgrades that replaces the stock
pickup bed. So we kind of got two divisions of the business. One of them we build and sell the
flat beds out of our shop here in Bend. And then secondly, we license our product designs and
marketing process to other welding shops around the country. So my question is actually specific
to that just because, so I was wondering on that side of the business, the licensing side,
how to make the vetting process better for our new dealers. Because our dealer success rate in terms of
we require a certain quota of units to be sold for them to stay in the program.
It's not nearly as high as I would like it to be.
So I thought you'd be a great guy to answer this question,
since it's kind of similar to your ELP programs,
kind of a similar model where we find qualified welding shops.
They use our process to build, market, and sell these beds.
And it has improved a little bit,
but it's kind of around 50 to 60% is what our success rate is.
The other 40% don't make the cut.
So just what are your thoughts on making the betting process a little better for our...
What have you figured out that the difference is between the ones that make it and the ones that don't?
Yeah, yeah.
So the first thing, and we've already changed this, was we require everybody to be full-time with a welding shop for at least a year.
Okay, so you can't make it unless you've been, you don't have a chance of making it on average unless you've been open a year.
Okay, that's one thing.
Yeah, yeah.
So you tried some part-timers and they don't cut it.
correct yep no question that makes sense okay what else have you learned um the other thing that we've learned
is it's actually kind of an odd problem where you know on the one side there's guys that aren't
established enough and they just you know they just don't seem to know enough about business and
sales to make it work and on the other side of the coin we've licensed some bigger shops you know
doing five 10 million a year um and those guys you know some of them had made it but some of them
it's just like i don't know if we didn't charge them enough money and they just you know kind of
forgot about it because, you know, in their case, what we charged for the licensing fees are about,
you know, two days worth of revenue for them. So it's kind of one of those things where, you know,
they get in and then they just kind of forget about it sort of thing. So I'm kind of looking for,
you know, do you think we should raise the price? And, you know, people take it more seriously
if we raise the price because there's some of them that, you know, we charge, the licensing fees
are five grand to get in. And some of the guys, you know, they get in and they make $50,000
profit their first year. And then they pay you additional per unit? Yeah, the way that we don't
do a royalty percentage, we basically just have them under contract to buy certain parts on a per unit
basis from us. And then we also have a small annual renewal fee of $750 per dealer. So it's
five grand up front. They are under contract to buy a minimum of about $3,000 for the parts
from us per year, and then $750 to renew. Yeah. So, um,
probably tiered pricing would help you.
Okay.
Based on their gross revs, you say, you know, the entry point is one to five million in gross
revs, and that's $5,000, and you buy our parts from us.
If you're $5 to $10 million, we expect you to do more volume, so we're going to charge you
$20,000.
If you're $10 million and above, we're going to charge you $40,000.
Okay.
Yeah.
And because, you know, because what you want is you want someone that wants this, you want the product line to be a reasonable mix.
You don't want to be 2% of someone's product line.
Right.
You want to be one of the things they do.
And I don't know what percentage of the product line it is, but out of their gross, you want them to be making something.
And if they pay a little bit more for it, as you said, they're going to value it.
And then that may flesh out that they're just, you know, they were just going to put.
They wanted to take you off the market so you weren't going to be at the competitor and put you on the shelf.
That's probably what happened to you on a couple of the big ones.
Uh-huh.
They said, this is a good process.
We're probably not going to do many of them, but we sure don't want the guy across town doing them,
so we're going to take it and put it on the shelf for five grand.
Okay.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
Yeah, they were taking you off the market.
You got dusty on the shelf.
You did.
So, yeah, that's happened to us before, where,
people want to buy ads as an example and so that they can hold that category and keep the
competitor from getting the category. They really weren't interested in a long-term partnership
with the Ramsey brand. They just didn't want someone else to have one. And we've run into that
a time or two. And so that's become part of the vetting process. So sometimes price changes will
weed out that kind of stuff because it's just too expensive to put you on the dusty shelf then.
relative to revenues.
And if you're not going to do anything with it, we don't want you.
But if you're going to do something with it, 40 grand's a great deal for a $20 million
business.
Right.
Yeah.
So how do we, because one of the things we do is we have everybody run through a demo before,
you know, I'm usually the guy that's on the interview call with them to vet the dealers.
They go through the demo, which kind of explains how it works.
It explains the pricing structure.
So how do you propose or what's your idea on, you know, because if,
If we say it's tiered based on revenue, obviously the temptation for these businesses would be to fib on the amount of revenue they're doing.
I wouldn't bring that up before I, you know, early in the call, we're qualifying.
We're going, hey, what Charles Gross Revenue?
Right.
And then we're going to talk about, okay, well, in your area, our pricing is this.
Okay.
But I wouldn't present a tiered on your website.
Right.
You know, they got to find that out because that way that, you know, you just find out what's going.
So how much gross are you all doing?
Are you doing enough to even fool with this?
You may not be big enough to do it.
And then they'll brag.
Right.
Yeah.
And so, but, you know, the other thing you want to do is this.
In marketing or in sales, the most powerful sale you can make as a negative sale,
which is worm fishing.
You make them want it and then you take it away from them and make them chase it.
And so, you know, we want to.
want to, you know, we've got to ask a few questions to see if you qualify to be one of our
dealers, not on one knee. Would you please, please, please, please, please be one of our dealers?
We need to see if you actually fit in. And, you know, the truth is that that's also the truth,
because you don't want certain kinds. You've already established, you don't want part-timers.
And we've already established we don't want a large one that puts us on the shelf, doesn't do
anything with it because we're just a you know we're like you said one day's revenue or something that
kind of deal so that's what you want to avoid but hey man really cool i love your business i'm proud of you
that's a great job and you're being really creative on how to grow it without having to do all the
welding that's pretty cool very very nice job man this is the entree leadership podcast well i'm not
sure exactly what to think about this article but you and i'll go through
this together.
WTOP.com reporting, frustrated by Gen Z office workers, companies are turning to etiquette training.
Nearly half of companies are now using office etiquette training and an additional 18% planned
to by the end of next year.
That would be 68% according to a recent survey of HR managers.
While most doing so are offering the training to all employees, the need has been brought
brought to the front burner by managers' frustration with Gen Z employees and college graduates
entering the professional workforce.
Managers have called those youngest of workers the most difficult to work with because of
poor communication skills and lack of much, if any, prior exposure to the workplace environment
and what is and isn't acceptable.
It also has a hedge against the talent shortage that companies in most industries are still
facing.
Companies have had to come to terms that they can.
can't keep firing gen ziers for not behaving in an office to counteract that they're having to teach
them how to behave they're training on things such as how to take constructive criticism how do you
give feedback and how do you accept it so it really has to do with communications another
big part is how you dress in the office what is appropriate attire wow okay um well i'm not known for
being the snappiest of dressers. But I don't wear sweatpants and flip-flops. And if you wear
your pajamas to work, we'll say something to you at Ramsey. And it might have happened,
but not much. The way I answer questions on this is what would I do? So here's what we have done.
We've got a building full of Gen Z and millennials. And we actually love them. We think they're the two
greatest generations to come along in forever.
But what we have laughingly said, and it is actually very true, is there's only two types,
excellent and sucks.
And so either are snowflakes that they're helicopter parent, and they've been playing
call of duty at a great call of irony, a great turn of irony, playing call of duty in their
mother's basement, and they're useless to the workforce.
They're not grown up yet.
and they would come to work in their pajamas and they're you know haven't bathed and
don't know how to talk nice to other people don't know how to have a human conversation
because the only way they've ever had a conversation is by text so um those are the ones that suck
we don't hire those thus we don't have etiquette training here and we don't have how to dress
appropriately here.
Now, we have had conversations from time to time.
A leader will pull someone aside and go,
you need to wear more clothes.
That don't work here.
We don't have a stripper pole.
So, you know, we're going to have to work on this.
We've had people that, you know, occasionally,
but it's in 30 years of doing this, you know,
we've had some had to have a, you know,
someone sit down and, you know,
we've had to pull some young man aside and say,
hey, you can't talk to ladies like that.
this is not the internet this is like real life somebody will scratch your eyes out little dude man
i mean and besides that we'll fire you that's called sexual harassment you know you can't do that
you can't act that way so that's the extent of our etiquette training and we'll talk to you a couple
times about it and then after that we're going to let someone else have you as a problem so um
but the ones that we hire that's such a rare occasion because we so what i'm what i'm
saying is, yes, this might be a problem with some portions of Gen Z. Because honestly, they've been
raised with a magic wand in their hand, and they do all of their communication on this magic wand,
and they push a button and crap shows up on your front porch. And we don't have this, and we have the
power of the entire world in our palm. We have all of the world's knowledge in our palm. And so
they're, and this is native to the way they think and act. And so this is a generation that
Wasn't taught to look someone in the eye if you're going to break up after dating for six months.
Instead, they send a text.
If you break up by text, you are relationally stunted.
Okay?
That's what we're talking about here.
But that's the problem.
So now, what we find is that we get by a stringent hiring process and vetting process,
we call out the ones that don't have the social skills to exist in a
office building with a thousand people.
You know, they bathe, they know how to speak to each other reasonably and with kindness.
Everyone in your 20s, me included in my 20s, we all have had to learn to do conflict with
more class, and that's called growing up, but we don't have to have classes on that.
So, now, I think if you're at the point in your company that you have to have a class on manners
and etiquette and how to dress in the workplace,
you have a hiring problem.
That's what I think.
And we don't have a hiring problem here.
We would rather not hire you if you're a problem
and not get the work done
than let crazy in the building,
in flip-flops and in their pajamas.
Okay?
So you can't come to work here in your pajamas.
It won't work.
We don't do that.
And you got to behave in a reasonable manner
with other human beings.
See, here's the thing.
If you live in a rule setting where there are no humans around, only farm animals,
you can behave almost any way you want to behave.
The more densely populated, the area that you live in, the more civilized you have to become.
It's called civilization.
And so if you're in a, there's more rules in the city because otherwise humans run over each other.
You have a traffic light so that humans don't run over each other.
You have stop signs.
You don't have that in the middle of Kansas where there's nothing but a cow and a wheat field.
Okay, you can just drive 100 miles an hour out through there.
There's nobody to hurt.
But when you got a more densely populated situation, which is the workplace, it requires.
more rules of etiquette, and you have to function at that level, you have to become more
civilized. And so the larger company you run leader, the more civilized a leader you're going
to have to become. And you guys think I'm wild and crazy now. When there was only 10 of us,
I was a complete nutburger. I mean, there was nothing holding me back then. Now I'm just bold.
You know, that's all it is now. But, oh my gosh.
You can get away with a lot when there's 10 people that you can't get away with when there's 1,000 as a leader.
So the summation of this, and I'm spitballing this because I just didn't know what to do with it exactly.
But the summation is you don't need to have an etiquette class or a how to dress at work class or how to do conflict class for Gen Z.
And millennials, there's plenty of them that know how to do that if you have a hiring procedure that doesn't let them in the door.
don't hire people that were raised by wolves.
It's pretty simple.
And then you won't have this issue, you know.
And so, no, we're not going to do that here.
It's like we've always said, you know, we don't have sexual harassment.
We're not going to allow it at Ramsey.
Not because it's a federal issue.
My daughter's work here.
We might have a murder, but we're not going to have sexual harassment.
I'm not putting up with it.
I'm an old-fashioned southern redneck.
you simply don't treat women that way.
Well, you're a misogynist.
It's a simple thing.
It's how people behave in a civilized society.
And at Ramsey, we're somewhat civilized.
And so, you know, that we, you know, so you can't be a creeper in work here.
We don't do creepers.
And so, you know, we'll talk to you once, maybe twice about it, and have a difficult
conversation with conflict so that you can get the point.
And then you can creep yourself on out of here.
because we're not going to have ladies.
You know, I got a guy's daughter working in here.
I'm responsible for her safety.
And I take that freaking seriously.
So we're not going to have it.
I'm not going to have to have a class on it.
I'm just going to fire your butt.
You're not going to work here.
Oh, my God.
So, yeah, we're not having a class on etiquette and manners,
and we're not having a class on sexual harassment,
and we're not having a class.
We're going to hire people,
and we're going to lead in a way where we're involved
enough in people's lives and create safety and create dignity and create good clean communication
where people have the opportunity to grow up and get better at everything that they're doing
at every age group and get the right kind of people in here that care deeply about the success
of the organization and serving the customer and then I don't have these problems.
All the problems that we have are when we don't do that.
And these companies, that's where they're having these problems.
They shouldn't have hired these people.
End of freaking story.
This is the Entree Leadership Podcast.
This is the Entree Leadership Podcast.
We work with 10,000 businesses from five team members to 250 team members all over America.
It's what we do.
A lot than we have for decades.
And we've grown this place from a card table in my living room to about a thousand folk now a little over a thousand.
And a major national brand.
and we did all of that using the things we talk about here on this show and the things we talk about in Entree Leadership events and in the book, Entree Leadership.
And that's our playbook.
It's who we are.
It's what we do.
And it's really, I mean, it's just people doing very practical things around here.
I'm so proud of our team.
Lee is with us.
Lee is in South Carolina.
Hi, Leah.
How are you?
I'm good, Dave.
So I see on my screen, you got something to brag about.
We like having this zone where we have some braw.
occasionally. Tell me your brag. How you doing? Well, we're doing great, and I'm really glad that
you're, you know, you allow us to do this. So I'm the co-owner with my husband of a catering company
and a restaurant. We've had the business for almost 20 years now. Last year, we did $2 million in
sales. We have 12 full-time staff and about 50 to 60 seasonal banquet staff. My brag story comes out
of a post-COVID realization that, you know, for the first 19 years of business, we really
focused more on success, busy calendars, top line. And after COVID, we just saw the exhaustion
in everyone's faces first by just trying to save our business. You know, we lost a million dollars in
one month of canceled bookings in 2020. Oh, yeah. It was really scary. The shutdowns were
I remember entire segments of revenue just evaporating before my eyes.
Yeah, overnight.
I was just, I didn't want to look at my email or answer the phone because I knew it was just another canceled, you know, event in someone's life, too.
And so in 2021 and 22, there was just so much pent-up demand that we were working seven days a week.
We were doing three, four, five events every day just to, you know, get everybody on the calendar.
and we looked at everybody and we realized pretty quickly we really needed to pour into them.
So we shut down the business for three days.
We just put signs on the doors and let all of our customers know, hey, we need to recharge
and refocus.
And my husband and I put together a three-day retreat.
We took our staff off site.
We poured into them both in just refocusing our why.
Why are we doing this?
Why do we work so hard?
So we spent a lot of time dialing in on that.
That had to blow their minds.
It did.
It just blew our minds of how excited they were to get refocused.
And how much impact that had.
I mean, people, they'll be talking about that 20 years from now.
Yeah, well, we, you know, we put a big sign up in our kitchen of what our why was that we all developed together.
We brought in a translator because we have a lot of Spanish-speaking staff.
So we brought in a translator to make sure that they felt, you know, that they were being heard as well.
And we recharged our minds from that, Dave.
We put together what we call a mental wellness fund for our business.
So this fund is available to any of our full-time staff that may have any challenges that they face in their life.
You know, I know there's a huge focus on everyone having health insurance, but there's not a lot of mental health insurance.
It's like none.
Yeah.
That's excellent.
Excellent.
Yep.
So I think just knowing that, them knowing how much we care about them, putting them first genuinely, not just because it sounds good or we heard it on, you know, a podcast or something, you know, pour into your people, just because we genuinely really wanted to pour into them.
Our success has been amazing.
And we just, we just wanted to share that because it truly, it truly.
does make a difference when you put people in front of profit. So what did you see, when you say
your success shot up, did you see a change in the numbers, a change in the turnover, or just a
change in the air, the culture? I would say culture, all of it. Culture came first. People walked a lot
straighter. They stood up taller. They were more energetic to answer leads and have conversations
with our clients, things were less daunting because it wasn't just about earning business to get
a booking for events. It was more about connecting with clients and making sure that they're the
right client because we don't want to just work seven days a week anymore just to get an event.
We want to make sure that they know that we are working with integrity, not just serving food,
that we're working to be, you know, passionate about making memories and that they're not just
another booked date. So I would say that that came first. And then, you know, the profits came after
that because genuinely we actually work less than we've ever worked in 20 years.
So what do you think the problem? How much do you think profit changed?
I would say our profit definitely went up like bottom line 10%. Yeah. Okay. Because my contention has always been.
And, you know, it's a little bit of a hard thing to trap and to do a control study on
to where you can actually create hard numbers to prove it.
But my contention has always been, A, I've got better people, if I pour into them, because the good ones stay, because the environment is great.
And so my turnover is less.
I've got some of the best, most talented people.
They're more committed.
so we're all more productive.
And so any three of ours are doing four persons worth of work, usually.
Because we just are leaning in so hard because most people don't work that hard.
And so we work hard here, all of us.
And so I'm convinced we get more productivity, which equals profit when it comes right down to it.
If I got one less person to pay out of every four to get a certain amount of work done,
then if that's the ratio,
then that's a payroll savings that goes straight to the bottom line in order to get the same amount of gross revenue in.
So that's my contention.
And the other thing is, you know, you retain people because you care about them, treat them right.
Oh, and you can attract talent like them because you care about them and treat them right and take care of them when they're sick and take care of, you know, pay for the marriage counselor, as you said, mental health when their marriage is struggling, or give them some extra grace time when they're.
there's a cancer diagnosis because normal PTO just won't cover that.
But it's not just for that person you're doing it, but the entire rest of the team is
watching when you're doing that.
And so my contention has always been that the odd thing is that by treating people extremely
well, the actual result is it's good business and you create more profit.
And by the way, you should just do that anyway.
But you know what I'm saying?
but the, and I would do it anyway and you would do it anyway, but I'm, I've got a real case to make
that there's actual increased profit from it. Yeah, like you said, it's really hard to gauge
actual numbers of like it being from the direct result. And we always cared about our people.
You know, we're just, you know, genuinely business owners, but we didn't make people first in
terms of like, this is why we go to work. We go to work and we're all producing the same result.
And out of that, we're all successful because if we're more successful and there's more to bottom line, then that means more money in your pocket.
And like you said, in terms of retaining staff, we've had no turnover.
And if anything, there's more people coming to our door because they're hearing about our culture.
And that is a very real thing that we have heard.
And that's exciting.
That's it.
I'm so proud of you.
Why to go?
Very cool.
Excellent.
excellent job thanks for calling in with your brag very good job see it can be done and the restaurant
business is really really tough the catering business that's a hard work man that's late at night
sometimes the customers aren't nice sometimes they don't appreciate you oh man that's a tough
we're all dealing with straight dealing straight with the public on that that's the real deal for
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