16: Owning a 7 FIGURE AGENCY but living in DORMS?! - Josh Chin & Louis Teo

Josh Chin & Louis Teo, (Founders of Chronos Agency, experts of email marketing) flew 18 hours from Singapore to share their secrets of managing a remote team, hiring top talent, and how they built their ecommerce email marketing agency out of their bedrooms.

This was such a fun episode, you definitely don't want to miss it.

FOLLOW JOSH & LOUIS:
Website: https://chronos.agency/
Chronos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ChronosAgencyLifecycleMarketingAgency/
Listen to the Chronos Podcast: https://chronos.agency/podcast/

Chronos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chronosagency/
Josh's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshchinn/
Louis' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisteooo/

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
02:10 - Josh and Louis' Backgrounds
08:01 - Andrew's friends were separated for months because of Covid
09:33 - What Covid has been like in Singapore
11:44 - Josh's story until 2019
15:32 - Josh's first time getting paid
18:24 - Eddie's back story
20:14 - What Louis does at Chronos
20:51 - College Degree VS YouTube University
23:29 - When Josh reached out to Louis
27:22 - Hiring their first employee
27:33 - Why did Josh reach out to Louis
29:09 - The first hire at Chronos Agency
32:18 - How to structure agency operations around a remote team
33:54 - How Chronos structures their pods
36:47 - Why they are the Smallest fish in a big pond
38:20 - Josh's mindset towards material things
43:55 - Running a remote team
45:09 - How to hire and fire quickly
47:02 - The risk of hiring top level talent
48:08 - 4Media's HR structure
50:39 - Why changing your mindset is so important
55:27 - Why Remote work is more demanding
56:35 - Slack vs Discord
01:00:05 - How does Chronos manage remote communication
01:02:08 - The problem with google docs
01:05:17 - Having a rubric for each position
01:09:11 - Different managers having different expectations
01:11:38 - Josh's first course
01:13:07 - The importance of writing and content
01:14:28 - The importance of user experience
01:18:34 - How Eddie almost got into the water bottle industry
01:21:24 - Why Logistics for countries is so important
01:27:39 - Why the USA will never catch up with China
01:29:03 - The greater good over the individual
01:32:42 - Why we should have a system to get rid of laws
01:35:25 - Why there are Second class citizens in Malaysia
01:38:53 - What are the future goals of Chronos
01:42:48 - Growing Vertically vs Horizontally
01:46:56 - How Amazon will screw you over
01:48:17 - Will SMS marketing be replaced?
01:53:57 - Predictions for the future of direct message communication
01:57:11 - What will marketing in the metaverse look like?
02:05:01 - Will one ecosystem win, or will many rise to the top?
02:10:52 - Why did Crypto Punks blow up in the NFT space?
02:12:45 - The biggest problem with collecting bitcoin
02:13:59 - Fortune Cookie

FOLLOW 4MEDIA:

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChX4gP8T7zOKCTw4UDRkb6w

Website: https://4media.marketing/
Join Our Team: https://4media.marketing/jobs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4media.marketing/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@4media.marketing?

 

EDDIE

Instagram: https://instagram.com/eddiemaalouf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imakegreatads
Marketing Course: https://www.brilliantmarketers.com/

 

ANDREW
Instagram: https://instagram.com/andrew_deitsch
Website: https://andrewdeitsch.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewdeitsch
Andrew's Other Podcast: https://www.andrewdeitsch.com/podcast