In today’s show, Sam shares opportunities for new team members at Brick and Investment Group.
Open positions:
Director of Communications (remote, part-time role): Timestamp: 00:05:35
Investor Relations (remote, full-time role): Timestamp: 00:06:35
COO at Ellie's Laundry (not remote, full-time role): 9. Timestamp: 00:07:30
Apply:
Email: sam+careers@brickeninvestmentgroup.com
Show summary:
In this podcast episode, Sam discusses the importance of building a team and the hiring process. He shares his personal experience and emphasizes the idea of working together as a team. Sam announces three positions available within his company and encourages interested individuals to reach out to him for more information on these opportunities.
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Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below:
Sam Wilson (00:00:00) - Welcome to the How to scale commercial real estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. How to scale commercial real estate listeners want to say thank you, as always, for tuning in and listening to this show today. You get just me. I've not done many solo episodes, but this is one of those things that, well, once you hear what the topic of today's episode is about, you'd like that makes sense to have a a solo episode. So again, you know, thank you as always for listening. One of the questions I commonly ask people who come on the show guess that. Come on the show you I know if you've been listening to the show for a while, you know this is something I always ask about, which is how did you build your team? What does that look like to build a team? What have you done right? What have you done wrong in the hiring process? What's it looked like early on especially and that's the name of the show is how to scale.
Sam Wilson (00:00:58) - What does it look like early on to bring on team members that have really helped carry you to the next level? And I think it's it's a it's a question that I asked because it's a question that I have commonly wrestled with. I think here for the last decade or so. When I sold our flooring company when I was 30, I sold that flooring company up in Indianapolis, Indiana. And one of the things that I had had enough of was employees. I'll be honest, I was tired. I was tired of working with other people. I was tired of telling employees what to do. I was tired of the problems that came with having team members that I was then responsible for. And I just said, Man, I don't want to do that anymore. Well, here we are 11 years later. I do have, again, a lot of employees, but it's taken me a while really to get to that point where it's like and I don't even like the term if you get to know me, you don't.
Sam Wilson (00:01:57) - I don't like the term employees told me of the day. I said, Look, I'm no one's boss. Like if you come if you come to work with us, you come to work with us. You don't work for me, you work with me. And that's that's really the kind of the spirit of what we want to do when we're bringing on team members is to let everybody know that we are a team and that we're yes, we are building something bigger than hopefully anything, us, anything that any of us can achieve on our own. And so that's been a it's been an interesting process for me. But even bringing on a lot of those team members, they've been team members that I'm not directly responsible for. We've had some great general managers here in the Memphis area that have helped kind of manage some of our laundry side of things that I don't even directly interface with a lot of those employees. So a lot of that again, that burden has been taken off of my shoulders. All that to say, though, is that on the brick and investment group side of things, so we have our laundry facility business, which has, I don't know, probably 15, 20 employees at the store levels that work with us.
Sam Wilson (00:02:59) - But then on the brick and investment group side of things, so kind of more on the leadership side of things. I've kept the team pretty light and that's been intentional because again, I've tried to avoid being responsible for other people and that's it's hindered growth, to be honest with you. And that question I asked the podcast guests that come on and say, hey, you know, where or what have you done right? What have you done wrong? I know I said that earlier in the show earlier on. What have you done right and what have you done wrong and how did you build your build your team And every single person, at least in my memory now, you could probably go back and find a guest that came on and say, Well, Sam, you're wrong, but in my memory as I recall it. Every single person that has come on the show has said, if you want to scale, you must have team. The way I've heard it said is if you want to go far.
Sam Wilson (00:03:47) - Uh, or if you want to go fast. Excuse me. Let me get the get the phrase right or the. Yeah. Get get this right. So if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. And again, you can probably look it up and be like, Hey, that's you butchered that one, two. Sam Which is probably true, but you get the idea is that if we want to go the distance, we've got to have team to do it. So the preamble, my five minute intro here to actually the thing that I wanted to talk about today was that on the brick and investment group side of things, we have opportunities for team members, not I have told you all the reasons. Probably you never want to work with me, which is because I don't really want to be responsible for people. But it's one of those things that. In 2023. Somebody asked me this for 2023. They asked me at the end of 2022.
Sam Wilson (00:04:40) - They said, hey, in 2023, what are two things you are going to do to make a meaningful difference in the way that your business operates? I said. Focus and team. Two things. Two things alone that we are going to do inside of our business is hyper focus and bring on excellent team members. And I will say that we've had we're doing more. Better. Faster now than we ever could have possibly done as a lightweight. And we're still a lightweight team. But even even just on my own, even for that matter. So all that being said, there are opportunities here inside of the Brick and Investment group and want to let our listeners know what those are. There's two remote positions and there's one that is not a remote position and we'll get right into those. So the three positions that we are hiring for first and foremost is a director of communications. This person handles all of the investor updates, monthly newsletters, weekly newsletters, website edits, project management. They manage our social media managers.
Sam Wilson (00:05:56) - They manage a lot of the things that are the kind of forward facing communication outlets. For the firm. That role is a definitely a remote position. It's something where. It could be what I call an all you all you can work buffet. But it is it's probably more a part time role suited for somebody that's looking for 20 to 25 hours a week and they super hyper flexible schedule. Not not a very in There are definitely times that availability has to be, you know, nailed down but a very flexible position that can be anywhere in the country. Director of communications The second thing or second job, rather, that we are actively hiring for is an investor relations position. Again, could be a completely remote position and that role is definitely a full time role. We are at a point now where, again, I've handled investor relations now for four years and it's something that we're excited to grow the number of investor conversations, the investor request, the things to keep up with it is a full time job, everything from investor outreach to investor updates to just doing everything that pertains to staying in front of and making sure that investors are happy and taken care of is a second role here at the company that I am actively hiring for.
Sam Wilson (00:07:21) - And again, that can be a remote position, but it's something that would really if that's something you are considering or you know, this is your skill set, certainly please reach out to me on that job. The third position we're hiring for is a COO inside of Ellie's laundry. And you're going to say, what is Lee's laundry? Well, for those of you that don't know, we are going long. We have been going along for a while in the laundromat space, actually prefer to call them laundry facilities because of how our stores operate. But the laundry facility space is a business that we know very well. We've been investing in for years personally and have recently opened that business up to our retail investors and we are growing that business exponentially. And so it's been a lot of fun to really see that business just explode. The opportunities there are unlimited and we are actively seeking a CEO for that company, Ellies Laundry. We have the Clean Laundry Fund, one for those of you that haven't been tracking what we've been doing, the Clean Laundry Fund, one is going to acquire another 20 to 25 stores in the next 2 to 2 and a half years.
Sam Wilson (00:08:28) - And we just, again, have unlimited opportunity there inside of the Clean Laundry Fund and inside of Lee's laundry for expansion and growth and need a experience there need an experienced CEO to come on board and really help us take that business to the next level. If this person or persons, any of these roles, describe who you are as an individual and you want to learn more about these, please reach out. The best way to do that is Sam plus the plus sign Sam Plus Careers at Brick, an investment group that's Brick, an investment group again that Sam plus careers, that brick and investment group. But now you get a good idea of where we are in our growth journey. And there's actually more roles that we have openings for as well inside of the business. But those are probably the three most prominent roles that we're actively hiring for and would really love. If this is something that you say, Hey, I'm great at this and I am ready to scale with a team and make a meaningful difference in both our communities and the team that we are building here.
Sam Wilson (00:09:30) - I would love to hear from you on that. So that's it. Thanks again for taking the time to tune in to the How to scale commercial real estate show. You know how to get a hold of me and have a great rest of your day. Thanks so much. Bye bye now. Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.
