Two people explain how to build a team when you can't pay salaries. One worked for free building tools for a mentor. Another, Giovanni, built an entire Discord community without payment. The key: find people who want to contribute skills in exchange for mutual value, not just money.
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For an agency that's trying to build those legs that you guys were mentioning earlier, if we're not at the position where we can pay them a salary, how do you convince them to come straight to build that leg for you on commission?
You can— we do it with other things too. It doesn't just have to be a product line. With my mentor, I handled like all the techie crap that happened. He didn't pay me. I was building leaderboards, I was doing reports, I was doing all kinds of stuff. And on my end, Giovanni, who you met, he built that whole Discord for us. I didn't touch that. It's just finding people who can contribute their talent to the team, right? Same as I try to contribute my talent to the team I'm on. Above, you know what I mean? I was always trying to add value, and I found they added value back more to me when I added something that I had. To find good people on your team, they'll add value to you in ways that you aren't thinking of if you allow them to.