Building Better Businesses

S1 Episode 52: Finding, Retaining, and Motivating Top Talent


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Dan Hoffend is a 35-year business and marketing veteran who led Hoffend Xposition, a family business from 0 to $50 million and then developed a $500 million strategy and experiential marketing agency, Freeman XP. Dan is a culture builder and motivational speaker at corporate events. An avid cyclist, runner, cross trainer, and adventurer, Dan and Eric Hoffend are co- authors of Who Gets It?! an international best-seller in two business categories in three countries. Dan with his wife and three children split their time between New York and Dallas. 


Eric Hoffend has spent 25 years as a sales executive and business development leader at Hoffend Xposition and Freeman. He has built and managed sales teams with revenues upwards of $400 million. A passionate teacher, mentor and speaker, he challenges himself to be dynamic, continually learning, growing and adapting. Eric lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. 


In this episode, we discuss:


• How people make the big difference when looking at buying a franchise


• How business success starts with leadership and trickles down to all other areas of the company


• Seeing failures as a step forward through learning as opposed to a step backwards


• The importance of taking constructive criticism to lartn and move forward in business


• The deal as the easy part of an acquisition and motivating the team afterwards as the important and hard part


• How to keep the top talent in an acquired company


• Integrity as the most important core value of a business


I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Dan and Eric were so generous to share their better business practices regarding what it takes to find success when acquiring a business.


Please let me know your thoughts!


Connect with Dan and Eric Hoffend: 


Website:

getsitguys.com


LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/company/gets-it-guys/



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