Clair Kim is a business architect, millennial expert, and social media influencer. She has consulted with over 250+ companies of all stages (from ideation to exit, from no revenue to 10 figures) internationally.
In today’s episode, Clair and Monique are talking about her personal brand as a musician ranked amongst the top 5% of online influencers via Klout in 2015. As well, her frameworks helped companies to increase their revenue by up to 1000% while decreasing their workload by 60%. And in the process, she’s been featured on The Today Show, Forbes, Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Addicted2Success, and more.
When Clair is not geeking out on business-related things, you can find her living her stage life as a musician, or surfing through YouTube for puppy videos.
HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE
[01:41] - Monique introduces her guest, Clair Kim.
[03:08] - Tell everyone what you're doing who you are, where you from.
- I am based in Canada.
- I'm a principal consultant at Clairly Designed and what we do at Clairly Designed is conscious companies come to us when they're ready to maximize their growth potential.
[04:15] - Clair explains what talent and revenue leaks are all about.
[24:42] - How did you find your first clients and how did you make things work?
- Just go online.
- Pretty much all those places online where I knew people will be hiring for these part-time or freelancers.
[33:50] - You mentioned you have Asian parents. Tell me a little bit about where they're from originally.
[34:42] - Clair talks about her family and their business.
[38:29] - Tell me a little bit about your music career.
- When it comes to establishing a musician, brand per se, It didn't really happen until I was about 20 years old.
[43:43] - So what would you say is your music genre, more pop, or anything specific?
- t's going to be pop acoustic sort of a thing.
[45:39] - How are you managing your business, consulting, music, puppies, and unicorns as well as food all at once?
- Food is non-negotiable.
- My golden rule, I don't want to starve.
- Based on how I work I found that at once I sit down I don't like getting up.
- I like to schedule things on my productivity and my priorities and stuff like that.
[52:43] - What is one question that you wish corporations or business owners would ask you more?
- “How can we recruit the right people in the first place that is not going to fly off six months after they get the job.”
[57:35] - What does efficiency mean to you?
- Things are done in the most optimized and minimum distraction kind of way.
[58:29] - If you had to start over again with the knowledge that you have today, which three things would you do over and over again to get back up to success again?
- Business structuring activities.
- Working on that lead generation aspect.
- Tuning and optimizing the results creation and client services fulfillment.
AWESOME RESOURCES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE
Craiglist: https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/jjj
AngelList: https://angel.co/jobs
Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/
IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE
[47:50] - “Whatever you're doing side projects and so on, or even if they seem to be incomplete different industry find a way to tie it back together.” - Clair Kim.
[53:32] - “Only hire people that you know are going to be extremely dedicated to your organization.” - Clair Kim.
[57:48] - “Efficiency means things are getting done in the most optimized way and with minimum distraction.” - Clair Kim.
FIND MORE ABOUT CLAIR KIM HERE
Website: https://clairlydesigned.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairk/?originalSubdomain=ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamwhalie/
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