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Ari Meisel

1 appearance on the record.

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1 prediction · 7 assertions · 2 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Everything Ari Meisel said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
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 Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 15:21 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Insight
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 Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 5:20 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Disclosure
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.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 10:42 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Disclosure
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.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 3:01 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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Meisel predicts Less Doing will top $1M in 2016 revenue
“Oh, we're going to break a million for sure.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 4:12 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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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.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 8:14 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Disclosure
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.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 10:55 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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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 Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 2:28 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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Ari Meisel: Less Doing generated around $200,000 in 2015 revenue
“In 2015, ah, I wanna say it was 200,000.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 4:04 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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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 Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 4:33 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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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 Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 13:04 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Disclosure
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.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 13:43 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
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Meisel: Less Doing, More Living has sold 30,000 softcover copies
“The book has sold 30,000 copies.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 16:36 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ari Meisel accumulated $3 million in construction debt at age 23
“I was, I put myself in three million dollars of debt when I was 23 in a construction project, and fortunately I came out of it.”
Ari Meisel Aug 3, 2016 ▶ 21:01 EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com

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Appearances (1)

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EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of Le Aug 3, 2016 10m
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