START AND GROW A DRONE BUSINESS (Part 2) - How to SCALE Your Drone Business
all right happy thanksgiving everyone today we're going to talk about how to scale your drone business okay so let me just switch over right now just so you can see me give me one second alrighty guys so today we're going to talk about how to scale your drone business happy thanksgiving brett caramella the drone pilot pro here let's dive right into it all right so we have right here all right this is part two of a three-part video series for helping you grow start and grow your drone business so to grow your business or scale your drone business that's what we're going to talk about today so if you already you've already got some clients if you didn't do so watch yesterday's video and i talked about how to get your first client so now that you have your first client if you follow what i said yesterday you'll have your first client now we're going to talk about scaling your drone business so there's three key roles for scaling a business okay for scaling your drone business okay so i'm gonna give you those three keys today and really it's really three different personality types so we'll talk about it right now so those three key roles for scaling a business are you got to be an entrepreneur you got to be a manager and you got to be a technician okay so you got to be all three of those things in order to grow your business okay so one of the main reasons why so many businesses fail so many drone businesses fail is because people start out usually they only concentrate on one out of the three okay or maybe two out of three but you need to have all three of these roles in order to have a successful drone business all right i'm just going to check give me one second i'm going to check online to see anybody's online or if everyone's just eating turkey all right everyone's eating turkey all right so we're going to keep going if you're watching this on the replay i'm sorry about the uh interruptions here all right let's keep going all right so the what we're gonna talk about because we have these three roles entrepreneur manager and technician we're gonna start with the entrepreneur and the analogy the man i'm gonna choose today since it is thanksgiving i don't know might be appropriate might not be appropriate but i'm gonna use christopher columbus okay so christopher columbus was the epitome of an entrepreneur and i'll explain why okay so as you know christopher columbus you know was was a person who discovered the americas are a european who discovered the americas in 1492 okay and he had these four core skills or four core traits that made him a good entrepreneur so you'll know if you're entrepreneur if you have these four uh skills right here so number one he was a visionary okay he dreamt of exploring a new land with lots of gold and yes having a vision or being a visionary is a skill of course it can be taught but some people have it naturally then he was a great planner all right he had a blueprint for traveling to this new land he he knew what ship he wanted he knew the the kind of crew he he needed the money etc in order he could plan he knew how to plan all these things in order to make the journey a success okay then the third type of skill he had he was a networker so he knew how to promote the journey this is going to be amazing we're going to get tons of gold we're going to get rich it's going to be an exciting journey okay it's going to be a great adventure and we got to do it now before someone else does it so he's a great networker great schmoozer promoter okay and he was also knew how to spot talent so you could promote but if you're promoting to the wrong people your business isn't going to go anywhere now now i'm using christopher columbus but this is going to relate to the drone business so just give me a second i'm gonna come back to the drone business so if if this bores you apologize but i thought this analogy would be a good way of telling a story that relates to business okay so he knew how to spot talent he schmoves with the right people to get the things he needed okay so he had all four of those skills and he could not do it alone okay so christopher columbus although he had these four skills he was a great entrepreneur that alone would not guarantee him being successful okay so he could not he could not do it alone he needed two other types of people to reach his goal in order to complete his journey and as you can see in this picture right here you see we'll just make believe i don't know this is the artist's rendition of who he thought columbus was and whatever so this is columbus right here we'll say in the front and the two other people we're gonna look at well the workers right here the rowers and then this guy is standing up with this little like feather in his hat like kind of like looking on with the sword by his side okay that's the guy we're going to talk about next so this guy with a sword in his his thing and uh he's got the feathers right there that guy is the manager okay he probably didn't columbus probably didn't call him a manager he probably called him a first mate or whatever the terminology they used back then so the the job of the manager the first mate is task delegation and he's kind of the big problem solver okay so tons of things can go wrong on the on the boat and when you're running a business you're always gonna eventually run into problems there's no business that doesn't have problems or doesn't have holes in your boat so to speak so the business is basically the boat okay so to speak and as your business as you go along with time you get holes in your business okay you get holes in your boat if you don't patch them up if you don't fix them your ship's gonna sink your business is gonna sink so that was the job of the first mate or the manager he makes sure that the all the oarsmen and everyone all the workers on the boat they knew their job and they were he was like the task manager he makes sure hey are you are you rowing here let's get going or we need to help with the sales over here he makes sure everyone did their job and he also there's things like holes in the boat and things like that he makes sure that they took care of those so that they could get across the ocean okay now the third type of role is the technician now the technician is columbus's crew it's all these people here rowing working uh in order to get that boat to the shore so you there there was obviously very various types of technicians on columbus boat you could he had the navigator he had the carpenter okay he had the cook to prepare all the meals etc etc so there were so many different uh crew roles but most of the roles are technician okay so you had columbus who was the entrepreneur you had that gentleman over here who is the manager and then you had all the other people on the boat who were technicians okay now we're gonna go back to our drone business okay so the technician uh for columbus was his crew all those people we just talked about but for our drone business the technician is the drone pilot okay so he's in charge of creating the final deliverables the photos and videos now most people when you start your business okay let me just switch over for a second and just talk to the screen because it's getting i don't like to go too long see who's on all right jack robinson good to see you see if we got any questions over here happy thanksgiving planner that is why we are here cool follow your analogies put together a sport team got it so planning on your support team project lead pilot spotter technician yes exactly exactly so this i'm going to explain this more and i'm also going to talk about how this relates to my own business what i've run into personally um what i've i've had difficulty doing uh so personally myself i got into starting a drone business because i love flying drones and i think like 90 of people do that they they work at a job and they're like ah forget my boss forget the manager i can go i can do this better i can go off on my own right so you go off on your own you start doing it you start flying your drone you start getting jobs you start making money you're happy right but then as you're and you get more and more work more and more jobs you realize wait a minute um there's a lot of stuff i need to take care of here like that i need to hire some people my business is growing and we need to hire some more of those technician roles like a spotter like a video editor like um any sort sort of thing maybe a producer for a big shoot stuff like this so as you start getting these other people you need you need an accountant you need you know a bookkeeper to keep take care of your finances so all these roles in the beginning you might try to do but then it takes away from you being the technician and then you also still need to be the entrepreneur because you have to have a vision for where your business is going in order to scale it so in the beginning people make the mistake i made the mistake myself i can talk from own personal experience and i think most people do this is that they start out with too much focus on being a technician or flying your drone so in the beginning if you're just starting out by yourself you're like brett what do i do if i have to be all three of those these roles what do i do do i need like a split personality do i need to like uh read all these books and do everything well in the beginning you don't have to like go crazy you just have to focus a third of your time on being a technician third of your time on being a manager and a third of your time on being an entrepreneur okay so you got to split it a third a third a third okay so now let's get back into the slides i'm going to show you what you do as your business scales all right hope that makes sense for everybody all right yep all right so we're gonna go back to the slides right here okay so yeah so so there's all these different roles you need a spotter someone to see your drone you need you know eventually you you're gonna need a photo video editor you start doing yourself but you start getting so many jobs like myself right now i'm hiring video editors and you do a real estate or some other type of shoot you might need a voice over so you hire someone to do the voice over stuff like this these are all just uh technician roles that you're gonna need okay because you can't you just don't have the time even if you're good at all these things eventually there's only 24 hours a day if you want your business to grow even if even if you're getting very little sleep you still can't do this all so you need to hire other people so as i said where most people fail too much time being the technician so you begin hiring other technicians and the manager and entrepreneur tasks get dealt get neglected and the business fail so what people do is like i said they go from being the technician and then often they'll hire another technician now you got two technicians trying to do manager and entrepreneurial tasks but they're that's not that's a totally different skill so you have to hire someone who is their skill as being a manager okay and ultimately you want to be the entrepreneur okay so when you start your business by yourself like i said you need to be 33 percent entrepreneur 33 manager 33 percent technician but as you scale your business you're gonna have to first hire a technician because that's gonna take the most time okay so actually doing the video editing doing the actual shooting okay that is what takes up a lot of time okay in the beginning you can do it but then once your business grows the first people you gotta hire the technicians then if you have enough money and you have enough technicians or people flying your drone people editing people doing your accounting etc then you're going to have to hire a manager okay so the manager is going to be in charge of making sure all the drone pilots are doing their job making sure the bookkeeper is doing his job making sure accountants doing their job making sure everyone's doing their job that needs to be done okay so you can focus 80 to 100 of your time on being an entrepreneur being an entrepreneur is looking for new work seeing where the opportunities are uh you know meeting with potential other businesses or clients that can really grow your business beyond just the day-to-day work okay so the entrepreneurial skills are all the things that christopher columbus had all right you have to all right where's my business going i have to plan i might need to change my blueprint a little bit all right i need to network i need to look for better talent this all takes time okay and then i need to sit alone and or i need to meet with other people talk with other business owners or people other drone pilots and come up with a vision for my business because your business isn't always going to stay the same it's going to change as as time evolves technology evolves the world evolves okay so that's sort of the strategy for scaling your business okay let's see if we have any questions before i continue any any questions jack i see you here alex moe all right from italy all right alex grazie mill italia all right yeah um i'm half italian so appreciate that all right higher higher in skills you need to cover all the deliverables you are offering to clients that's what jack says yes exactly so you should do you should know what your best skill is and ultimately you got to work on your entrepreneurial skills because that's what's going to make you the most money that's what's going to help you scale and really grow your business so you want to you want to be with other people who have entrepreneurial skills but also you need to find a good manager and a good technicians okay so one thing i i i will say is once your business does grow all right let me just switch over here real quick once your business does grow a lot of people fail in that they they neglect or they they underestimate the power of a good employee or a good person working for you independent contractor whoever it is so i've been at businesses before where i've delivered so much to that business i i can't get into details just because i don't want to put anyone you know speak negatively of anyone but i've been i've been at certain jobs where i've gone above and beyond and done everything to help this business grow and that business let me go like they'd never give me a raise they never gave me commission they didn't give me anything when i was giving them making them hundreds and millions of dollars right so if someone's making hundreds of thousands of dollars millions of dollars you want to keep that person happy because ultimately your biggest asset for your business is your employees okay it's actually you know the customer is very important but your employees are probably your biggest asset and a lot of people don't understand that because it when you start your business as you as you grow your business you'll realize that finding really good employees is one of the hardest things to do so once you get them keep them like gold they're worth so much to your business all right so that's what i recommend your employees are really your biggest asset and the most important thing in your business and i think a lot of business owners out there who are watching this you'll understand if you're not if you don't have a drone business another business i think you'd agree with me just from personal experience the value of having great employees okay so let's come back to the slides um see if we got any questions here any questions we got a bunch of people in the chat any questions here i have been flying three years without part 107 i need help yeah uh well you got to get your part 107 if you want to make money i have a part 107 course you can go to the drone pilot dronepilotpro.com just scroll down you'll see my course right there um jack says been there had that happen more than once treating them right matters yes definitely treating good employees and treating all your employees right matters but keeping your good employees is such an important skill all right so now we're just going to get in thank thank you for uh for that now we're gonna get into black friday we've got two days left today and tomorrow i just want to let you guys know about my biggest discount of the year okay so if you are looking to grow your drone business i put together a course of over 125 videos of everything from mastering your drone to getting your part 107 license and the business skills some of the skills that i talk about today in growing your business okay and i wish i knew these a long time ago and uh that's why i put this together for you so you don't make the same mistakes so in the course on my page the dronepilotpro.com you can go there i have these mini courses now these are all for sale i mean you could purchase any one of these but i put them 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that's it for today let's see if we have any questions before i go all right let's jump in here okay we've got a bunch of people in the chat here jack gives it a thumbs up jack i really appreciate you men always supporting mark p says adobe's expensive and predatory i'd use a finite vinci yeah i've used da vinci although i will say i've used these other platforms and to me adobe just makes my workflow the fastest it's the easiest it also has it's kind of like the most universal so when you use it with clients and so forth it's it's a lot easier because everyone sort of uses it with the discount you get all those platforms you get uh it's not really that expensive i think it's like a little over 20 a month it's between 20 22 a month something like that so for all those platforms uh for 20 20 and change a month to me that's pretty cheap for if you're doing this full-time professionally uh trying to cover that license battle at this point yeah so one thing i let me just go back to that jack to ask about the um licensing so for the licensing where is it right right here i have in the course i use artless soundstripe musicbed artless the good thing i kind of the reason i like them their licensing is because even if in the future if you decide to cancel your subscription if you use some of their music you're you're covered for life and also covers commercial work whereas music bed you have to pay different licensing fees whereas artless and soundstripe are kind of like one fee for everything whether that's with a commercial client or your own work so i would look toward towards art list or soundstripe if you're worried about the licensing even though musicbed they do have some amazing songs too so it's it really depends on the project okay all right um and jack says yearly adobe creative cloud lets you have any up-to-date adobe program yes it keeps you up-to-date i got the new uh let me see in my screen right here i got the new uh premiere pro 2022 adobe photoshop 2022 so you know for next year basically they recently updated those so yes you get all that all right so thanks for tuning in guys i'm not gonna not gonna keep you any longer i appreciate appreciate your time appreciate you guys tuning in hope you have a great thanksgiving I'm Brett Garamella, the drone pilot pro happy thanksgiving and remember tomorrow 1pm i do another live stream where i show you sort of like today but i'm going to show you all the little tips and tricks that i've learned that i wish i knew when i started my business so if you want to tune into that tomorrow 1pm have a great day
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