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Working with somebody part-time, you may want to bring the person on full time or look for someone else after that. at least you will have a much better idea the type of person you re looking for. start slow. it is a huge investment that will take a lot of resources. if you make the wrong investment or decision, it could be a big problem for you. now it is is time for brain trust. we get to look at some of the hard decisions you have to make in business and find out what people did to make those things happen. we have christiane lemieux. it is a major order, direct-to-consumer furniture company. it is is. you were the founder of dwell, dwell studio, which you sold to wayfair successfully. congratulation stpwhrs thank you. and the founder and ceo of tough mudder. it is incredible. now look at you. so i wanted to put you two together because you both built ....
And a best-selling author. his book the new rules of marketing and pr is now in its fourth edition and christiane lemieux is the founder of well studio. last year she sold her company to wayfair, the largest online retailer of home decor, where now she s the executive creative director. great to see all of you guys. great to be here. one thing for anyone who didn t notice in the open of the show those shoes i was wearing the heels were guns. jimmy webb found my inner color. i hope you got to keep them. i would have fallen down. i could barely walk across the store. i did keep the t-shirt though, the sex pistols t-shirt. vanessa i want to start with you because you have spent so much time in this industry. jimmy is clearly unique, right? he has a passion that is unmatched. he really gets his customer. is that what you need to be looking for in a buyer? because i have to imagine that s hard to find. i mean, it s great to have someone who is really passionate ....
Completely agree and it is very cultural. it gets lost in translation and the subtleties aren t there. it s hard to coalesce people if it doesn t feel close to appropriate. i think so. it s good to ask people who have done it, i imagine. they know some of the roadblocks that you wouldn t even think of because you d never been there. right. and the same thing for social media, finding somebody locally to do your social media efforts is important. creating content for the website. making the content created locally is essential. straight translations just don t work. david and christiane, thank you for coming. lucky for us we got to pick your brains a little bit today. thanks for having you. if any of you out there have your own question and you want some good advice head over to our website. the address is openforum.com/yourbusiness. click on the ask the show link to submit a question for our panel. or you can e-mail us your questions, too. the address is yourbusiness@msnbc. ....
People were telling us they needed and wanted, rather than deciding what people might need and doing that. the idea is always to listen, to act on what makes sense, then to listen some more. time now to answer some of your business questions. david and christiane are with us once again. the first one is about scaling your business and hiring more employees. i would like to know when do you know it s the right time to bring in middle management from a start-up perspective? right now our organization is structured where it s just myself and another vp. and the rest are mainly general staff. christiane, you had to do this. you started your company right out of college. right out of college, it was me by myself. i think when you get to the point where you can t do everything anymore, and you really want to hire into your weaknesses, so for me, you know, there are various areas where a woman is probably the best person to be doing the job and that s when i brought in middle manageme ....