Ari Meisel
On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Everything Ari Meisel said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
When outsourcing fails, 90% of the time it is the delegator's fault
“I'm a big believer that if you make, if you give something to a competent outsource provider and they make a mistake, it's 90% of the time it is your fault because you didn't give them the information the right way or you didn't relay the task properly.”
Ari Meisel: High performers rarely self-identify as unproductive
“Part of the problem in our business is a lot of, very few people who are high performers self-identify as unproductive.”
Ari Meisel plans to intentionally cap Less Doing at 300 clients
“I have no interest in us having thousands of clients. I really, I want, I would like this to have 300 clients, you know, 5000 hours, like a month. That would be great.”
Less Doing charges $149 monthly and $50 an hour billed by the second
“People sign up for a subscription of a 149 dollars per month, which is basically a membership fee, and then they're paying 50 dollars per hour, and we bill by the second.”
Meisel predicts Less Doing will top $1M in 2016 revenue
“Oh, we're going to break a million for sure.”
Ari Meisel: Less Doing employs over 120 people, mostly specialists
“Fortunately, we're at a place now, we have over a 120 people on the team, only about 20 of those are VAs, the rest are specialists, and we niche way down, like we have somebody who just does A-B testing.”
Meisel: Less Doing Has Taken Zero Outside Capital
“We have not put a cent into the company and we have been refusing money left and right. Actually, we haven't had a single dollar into it.”
Meisel: VA business drove most of Less Doing's 2015 revenue despite Q3 launch
“The virtual assistant company by far, even though the virtual assistant company started in the third quarter of last year.”
Ari Meisel: Less Doing generated around $200,000 in 2015 revenue
“In 2015, ah, I wanna say it was 200,000.”
Ari Meisel: Less Doing has around 170 paying monthly clients
“I think we're, at last count would be like in one-seventy-ish range.”
Ari Meisel: Less Doing podcast generates 30,000 monthly downloads across 220+ episodes
“It's about 3000 per episode, and we're getting about 30,000 total downloads per month because, you know, I have 220 something episodes.”
Ari Meisel: Sponsors pay $500 per episode on Less Doing podcast
“People pay 500 dollars an episode to be on our podcast, but it's not every episode. I'd say it's probably every three episodes we'll have a sponsor.”
The other half of the tape: Ari Meisel's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 8Nick Sonnenberg 3
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Top Founders 11
2016 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- He Pushed Button, $1 Trillion Transferred with Nick Sonnenbergof CalvinApp
- EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com
- EP 376: $5M on $15M Pre Money Goal For BlockChain Based BurstIQ
- EP 374: 13 yo Starts Business, Now $1.2M in 2016 with Nick Kullin
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ari's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | 1 | 14 | — | full record on Top Founders → |