Chris Hanna - Hire 4 Me

On this episode of Authentic Business Adventures, host James Kademan speaks with Chris Hannah, the owner of Hire 4 Me, a company that helps small business owners find the right staff to alleviate the burden of doing everything themselves.

Chris shares his unique perspective on entrepreneurship, hiring, and the value of time. He discusses how his personal experiences led him to create Hire 4 Me, the importance of solving problems in business, and the similarities between poker skills and business skills. Chris also shares insight into the value of flexibility and genuine fulfillment in one's work.

The episode is brought to you by Calls On Call and The Bold Business Book.

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Visit Chris at: Hire4Me.ca

James Kademan [00:00:00]:

You have found authentic business adventures business program that brings struggle, stories and triumphs and successes of business owners across the land. Downloadable audio episodes can be found in the podcast link. Founded drawincustomerscom we are locally underwritten by the bank of Sun Prairie. If you're listening to this on the web, be sure to think of your comment, hit that big ol like button and of course, subscribe. Today we're welcoming, preparing to learn from Chris Hannah, the owner of Hire for Me, Inc. That's four with the number four. And I got to say, Chris, I'm excited to talk to you because in my meeting with my manager today, she tells me, hey, we got some employees that aren't doing so hot. And I imagine that's a common thing for business owners to hear.

Chris Hanna [00:00:46]:

Yes.

James Kademan [00:00:46]:

And I'm like, oh, great, we get to go on this hiring spree again. So that's well, maybe not spree, but we get to hire a couple of people. So, yeah, so tell me, let's just start with what is Hire For Me? And we will just go from there.

Chris Hanna [00:00:58]:

Well, thanks for first having me on the show. Hire for Me is really about how I came up with this business idea. I was talking with a lot of business owners and they were all saying that they're frustrated, they're absolutely miserable because they're doing everything in their own business. They're the chief everyone officer, wearing every single hat, sales, marketing, ops, it finance, you name it, right? And they're like, I wish someone could hire for me because I would give them advice. But they kept saying, I wish someone could hire for me. So I'm driving back from an event and I'm like, I can solve this problem. I can actually go out and I can hire for these small business owners, these solopreneurs, and make their life easier because some people, they just don't have the experience of having hired or trained or really led a team before. But over 20 years, across a variety of industries, I've hired, lead, and promoted over 500 people. So I was like, why don't I just use that skill and that talent in a different way and create a business around it?

James Kademan [00:01:50]:

So you started this. And tell me, ideal client, just describe who is this? Who's coming to you?

Chris Hanna [00:01:57]:

Well, most of the people that I'm supporting are those true solopreneurs. They're the people who are actually already successful. I seem to attract a lot of people who are like, in real estate, but they're people who are looking for customer service, admin, marketing, salespeople. They are doing everything on their own. They're typically a few years into their business, I'd say like between two to five years. They're in their business, but they've gotten to the point where they know that they need to hire, they need to scale, all right? They don't want to do it anymore by themselves or they're losing business because ...