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"Wow!" Liam pointed to the back of the cereal box. "Look at this race car model. It's just like the car Cory Martin drives. You know--the guy who's been winning lately! This is so big you can sit in it! Cool! Can I cut this out and send it in so I can get one? It's free!" "Free?" asked Dad. "I doubt it!" "It is!" Liam insisted. "It says so right here. Listen! 'Mail this in to get your own life-size race car model, absolutely free!'" He turned to his dad. "Can I do it, Dad? Please?" Dad took the box and read the offer himself. "The car itself may be free," he said, "but you need to send fifteen dollars for postage and handling." "That's still not much, Dad," said Liam. "Where else could I get a model that size for fifteen dollars?" "When an offer sounds too good to be true, it usually is," said Dad, "but if you want to use your own money, you can send it in." So Liam sent his money on its way and waited eagerly for the car to arrive. Finally, a package came for him. It was surprisingly small for a race car, and upon opening it, Liam found a lot of pieces of cardboard and plastic. "Looks like I have to put the car together myself," he said. "Will you help me, Dad?" Dad agreed to help, and when everything was finally in place, Liam stood back and looked at the car sadly. "If this is life-size, it must be meant for a two-year-old!" he said as he cautiously stepped into it. He sat down, and with one big KERPLOP the car collapsed. Liam sighed. "So much for the race car. You were right, Dad. When an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is." "Unfortunately, that is almost always true," agreed Dad. "But I can think of one big exception." "You can?" asked Liam. "What is it?" "God offers us the gift of salvation and eternal life, and because Jesus paid for it by dying on the cross for our sins and coming back to life, it really is free." Liam nodded as he looked at the race car. "I'm so glad God's offer really is true!" LINDA M. WEDDLE How About You? Have you ever been disappointed by a special offer? That will never happen with the free gift God offers--one so valuable you could never pay for it. The gift He offers is eternal life through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Don't miss out on this amazing offer. If you have not accepted this gift by trusting in Jesus, do it today. (To learn more, click the "Good News!" button in the right column of this page.) Today's Key Verse: THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. (NKJV) (ROMANS 6:23) Today's Key Thought: Salvation is really free.
Learn the different tools that can help you improve and scale your remote business Know the importance of communication and process design in a remote business Find out all the details you need to know about Running Remote:the largest conference for remote teams Resources/Links: Register for the upcoming Running Remote Conference: Meet the Experts, Grow your Team, Explore Bali. Learn from a great lineup of remote company leaders and innovators! Summary Liam McIvor Martin is the co-founder of two SaaS company, Time Doctor, and Staff.com. He is also the co-organizer of Running Remote - a carefully curated to teach you next-level, actionable strategies and tactics you can utilize the very next day to build & scale your distributed team. They are also conducting the world’s first remote-friendly VC panel. In this episode, Liam highlights how building his two businesses and co-organizing a conference stemmed from his passion for remote working. He will reveal the latest tools and tips to help optimize and scale your remote business. Check out these episode highlights: 00:56 – Liam talks about his two SaaS business: Timedoctor and Staff.com 02:18 – Details about the upcoming Running Remote conference 05:25 – Liam's target attendees for the Running Remote Conference: high caliber international attendees from a variety of industries 06:49 – Liam’s passion to educate and help business scale remotely 08:17 – His key learning in managing his companies Time Doctor and Staff.com, why communication among remote staff is so important 12:33 – Protocol for engaging contractors/remote staff to improve the documentation system process– change the process inside the process document, compensate them through a bonus system, use Gitlab to build your process 16:38 – Liam talks about 'co-worker coffee' feature inside their Slack group, where remote and random co-workers/team members can have 15-minute chats with each other about work and life 17:47 – The pool of speakers, top remote work leaders and topics to be discussed in the upcoming Running Remote conference 22:12 – Important tips from Liam when going to Indonesia for the event. Heads up on what to expect. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Having reliable communication is absolutely important.” -@vtamethodmanClick To Tweet “If you believe a process should be improved, then you have to change the process inside of that process document.” -@vtamethodmanClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to another edition, a special edition in fact of Marketing the Invisible. My name is Tom Poland beaming out to as always from on the sand next to waves, a Little Castaways Beach in Queensland, Australia. Joined today by Liam Martin. Liam, a very... what is it? Good evening or just about good evening in New York is that right? Liam Martin : Good afternoon slash Good evening. Tom Poland: Yes. All right. Drifting into Twilight. The Twilight Zone and this is the twilight zone because Liam is not as you see on the screen Rob Rawson, he is Liam Martin. Liam Martin : It is our podcast account, that's our explanation,. Tom Poland: I can confirm its authenticity. Yes. So folks the reason it's a special edition is we're not doing our seven minute countdown timer because I want to have much more of an in-depth conversation with Liam on this. So Liam, why don't we kick off by just me asking you to introduce yourself. Because you're really wearing two hats I think for this, right? Liam Martin : Sure. Yeah I know. You're absolutely right. So Liam Martin on planet Earth. More specifically Canada right now. So I do travel quite a bit and I'm the co-founder,
Here's the deal. George doesn't have Instagram. Liam does. So Liam sat George down and caught him up on all things OBIG. Hilarity (?) ensued!Plus, Schartoff Rises.We're @OeuvreBusters on Instagram and Twitter. Get at us.Shahir Daud's amazing short film La Loteria."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to episode 20. Episode 20 see's Liam up in Leeds talking to Random Hands Robin Leitch.The band took a hiatus in 2015, but the band are now playing selective festival shows, So Liam jumped on a train and headed up north to Leeds for a quick beer and a chat out Robin to talk Random Hand, past present and future.You can also expect Liam to say Random Hands name wrong. Robin talks about his childhood and how ska punk saved him from being just an angry kid and loving Limp Bizkit!Liam and Robin both use the podcast as a form of therapy; Robin talks about his passion for politics while trying not to preach about his beliefs on stage. You will also hear stories about being star struck, music influences and Baba Luck all before Liam had to rush back to the station to get the train back to London. As always I turn over the end of the podcast to new, unsigned or indie label bands and this week's sound is coming at ya from the Punks in Pubs Family! This weeks band is audio assistant, Stephen Burke one man band Headspacer As always follow the podcast on all the socials Twitter, FB and Instagram @Punksinpubs. While you are at it, Go rate and review the podcast. It helps other punks find the pod, and we grow.
Big Al is touring the Gold Coast this time. So Liam, Scottish George, Kiwi Paul and Dr Dan have a little chit-chat. Topics include: Thailand, a bloke called Spider and genetics. This episode was recorded @ The Elephant British Pub. Get this show on all major apps. web: auscastnetwork.com/home/the-badcast facebook.com/thebadcastpodcast/ twitter.com/the_badcast Follow the boys on the Breaker podcast app: Liam @podcastfiend and Big Al @bigalcomedy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
So Liam finally pulled through after 2 years and did his first ever stand up comedy gig, how did it go? was he eaten alive or kill it? #podcast #audio #two4one #241 #trump #nuclear #comedy #standup #idiots #NorthKorea #joke #jokes #fun #laugh #abrupt
So Liam called in sick at the last minute so if left Simon all by himself, he took this time to answer some of your questions..... #241 #podcast #comedy #liam #simon #audio #fun #questions #q&a #laugh #two4one #standup #joke #help
Snap, a-ah, saviour of the universe. So Liam and Simon take on the UK's snap election (They have no idea!) Does this mean its the end of the world with Trump, N.Korea and a whole heap of big bombs? #snapelection #satire #comedy #two4one #podcast #uk #snap #election #trump #Korea #bombs #laughoryoullcry #seanspicer #war #endofdays #fun #idiots #noidea
David: What is the best way to structure the setup of a remote working team? What are pitfalls of setting up a remote team and how can they be overcome? You’ve decided to hire a remote digital marketing team, where’s the best place to start? Those are just three of the questions that I intend to ask our special guest today, Liam Martin. Liam welcome to DMR. Liam: Thanks for having me David. David: Well welcome. Liam’s CMO and Co-Founder of Staff.com, a remote staffing platform that only allows to hire long-term remote labor. So Liam we’ve discussed the benefits of outsourcing in an interview that we recorded together about two years ago actually. How do you feel that outsourcing has evolved over the last couple of years? Liam: That’s an interesting question. In 2012 there was a huge … The space was really quite open and the space was evolving. I think about maybe 1% of all staffing was run remotely. I’m talking about staffing agencies, now we’re probably about 4-5%. We’ve seen a 400-500% jump in the space in just that amount of time. That means a huge exposure to a lot more different ecosystems. You’ve seen platforms like Fiverr as an example. That’s a recent company for $5 tasks; very interesting. Mechanical Turk has absolutely exploded now. There are all of these companies that are connected to Mechanical Turk that really just focus that huge crowdsourcing network to figure out any other type of task that you’d absolutely want. There’s super interesting companies that now do crowdsourced translation as an example. You’ll have people that will be learning another language. They’ll have quizzes given to them to translate pieces of text and they’ll actually crowdsource that solution. Basically people are gamifying translations that you’re paying for on the other end. Then on the higher end, platforms like us that offer full time remote labor, we’ve seen our numbers explode in that short amount of time. Really you’re seeing a labor market that is truly evolving, moving from small little projects to longer and longer-term contracts to basically full time employment. Employees that are really now working full time remotely whether it’s guys in Southeast Asia that are making one to $2,000 a month that are absolutely fantastic at their jobs. They’re making a lot of money relative to their countries, but can work wherever they want. We actually have a very interesting story connected to that too.
After seeing what Birchbox did with subscription based make-up products, Liam and two of his long time friends decided to do the same thing with dog treats and toys. They grew up together and they knew that they wanted to start a business together as well. So Liam took the knowledge he had gained from his previous entrepreneurial endeavors and started BusterBox.