Kim Barrett - Check Your Capacity Before You Hire

<p><strong>BIO:</strong> Kim Barrett is a world-renowned million-dollar marketing strategist with a focus on Facebook. Kim is an international speaker and trainer, having taught marketing worldwide and helping businesses grow to six, seven, and even eight figures.</p><p><strong>STORY:</strong> Kim had a successful start to his business. He was bringing in lots of sales, and he felt he needed more staff to handle these sales. The problem was that he spent too much on those people without looking at their achievements and his team’s capacity limits.</p><p><strong>LEARNING:</strong> Have a clear understanding of your business numbers. Dive deep into the capacity that you have before hiring. Avoid a business model that makes it easy to grow costs and hard to increase revenues.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“My worst investment was in human capital people. Not because they were bad people, but because I didn’t need it.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Kim Barrett</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/realkimbarrett/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Kim Barrett</strong></a> is a world-renowned million-dollar marketing strategist with a focus on Facebook.</p><p>Kim is an international speaker and trainer, having taught marketing around the world and helping businesses grow to 6, 7, and even 8 figures.</p><p>Kim is the Founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.yoursocialvoice.com.au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Your Social Voice</a>, an Australian-based Digital Marketing Agency established in 2015. YSV helps businesses get heard on Social Media and, most importantly, build engagement and generate more leads and more sales.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>Kim started his business when he was 25 years old and had a good start. In the beginning, Kim was good at marketing, and then he got very good at sales. He made many sales, and his team would deliver on his sales.</p><p>As he continued