Employee #1 at Consulting.com on Growing from $0 to $26M in 2 Years

In today's episode I talk to Nick Fisher who was employee #1 at Consulting.com -one of the most successful courses for entrepreneurs online with over 20,000 active students. Before that he was the marketing director at  Clever Investor  which he helped grow from $5 to $16M/year.A couple fun facts about Nick:1) He's spent over $15M in Ads on Facebook and YouTube throughout his career, and has generated over $87M in online course sales2) He landed his first marketing director job by retargeting the CEO of Clever Investor with Facebook Ads until he gave in3) He's a huge nerd about personality tests and we talk about how he using those to build a dream team for his new company.SHOW NOTES:00:54 Nick's career start (corporate accounting + starting small businesses)06:35 How Nick landed a marketing director job by retargeting Cody Sperberg with Facebook Ads10:07 The "test of wits" he had to pass to land the marketing director position at Clever Investor13:28 Nick's take on the value of working with someone like Sam Ovens or Cody Sperberg14:51 How much he scaled Cody’s business15:47 His failures & lessons learned as a young manager at Clever Investor17:40 Leaving Clever Investor to work with Sam Ovens as employee #1 of Consulting.com24:45 Lessons learned from working with Sam31:34 Why he left Consulting.com to start his own company37:53 Starting his own company Agexa39:30 Advice to his younger self & general career advice43:30 Stories of how other early employees at Consulting.com got their jobs there47:39 How Nick is using personality tests to build a balanced team for his company (similar to Ray Dalio is doing for Bridgewater)53:25 Positions Nick is hiring for at Agexa👉 Check out Nick's company Agexa (they're hiring): https://www.agexa.com🔗 Nick's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickwfish/💬 And feel free to DM me on Instagram with any feedback for the podcast or any questions: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyjohnmary