LET'S GROW

Values-based hiring is about finding people you can trust to live your company’s values every day. As Dr. Cohen put it, “You want to have people you can sleep well at night knowing they’ll do the right thing at the right time.”

When your business is just starting out, you wear every hat. You sell, you market, you manage operations. But real growth comes when you learn how to delegate with confidence, build authority in your niche, and put scalable systems in place.

The damage from a poor drop may not be limited to a single day’s revenue. It’s a signal that fans may not feel the brand can deliver consistently, which makes it harder to sustain growth.

When founders say, “I need more leads,” the instinct is usually to chase tactics, like ads and flashy visuals. But as Tamara Ceman explains in this episode of the Growth Department podcast, real marketing is much more than promotion. Real, great marketing is about doing the invisible work that keeps your business growing long after a campaign ends.

With Jalil Nawaz, Founder and CEO of Mountainise If your CRM looks like a crime scene, your dashboards are dusty, and your sales team has...

Most founders think of partnerships as either: A quick referral agreement, or A one-off co-marketing campaign But the companies that scale well treat partnerships as part of their growth infrastructure.