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- Led his team to an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America listing.
- Grew Rooster Park to a staggering 826% between 2010 and 2012 alone.
- Estimates Rooster Park’s earnings at $1 million every month.
Key Takeaways:
- Hear how Scott went from working at Microsoft, leading teams at Amazon, and working with the biggest technology giants in Seattle to launching a multi-million dollar company.
- Why quitting his job and wandering around networking for three months was one of the best professional decision he ever made.
- How he leveraged consulting gigs into his first paying clients for Rooster Park.
- Shares the personal story behind his unusual company name and his strategic reason for keeping it.
- Why he switched gears from building software and products to a boutique recruiting service company.
- Ramped up his new services by partnering with a company that needed engineers and contractors but didn’t how to do it themselves.
- Explains how he landed lucrative contracts with clients like ESPN, Disney and Moz among other giants.
- How a common cliché is all Scott really uses to continually build his company and add new clients.
- Reasons behind doing little else than great work for customer retention.
- How finding the right clients to begin with leads to success and real customer satisfaction.
- Explains how going against the grain and trying to scale a service business can be lucrative and satisfying.
- Shares methods and techniques for leaping past scaling plateaus.
- Scott’s struggle with productivity hacks and his one simple trick that keeps him organized.
- Why it’s only been in the last few months that Scott finally stopped doing his own bookkeeping, and the importance of delegating more to trusted employees.
- Surprisingly philanthropic yet entrepreneurial reasons behind giving away 10% of Rooster Park’s net income every year to technology startups.
Recommended Resources:
“Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People”
Rooster Park’s Advice on Hiring for Success:
Don’t Lower the Bar, Widen the Net