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Cameron Herold is a business coach and keynote speaker best known for his work as the business growth guru and Founder of the COO Alliance. He has over 20 years of experience as a COO for several companies including 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, which he took from $2 million to over $100 million in revenue in just six years. Cameron is the author of six books including Double Double, Meetings Suck, and his latest, The Second in Command: Unleash the Power of Your COO.  He also hosts the Second-in-Command Podcast.

In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Cameron Herold, a business coach and the Founder of the COO Alliance, about best practices for hiring and integrating the second in command. They also discuss tips for nurturing a great CEO-COO relationship, when to hire and let go of a temporary COO, and Cameron's influential books.

Cameron Herold, dubbed by Forbes as Today’s CEO Whisperer, is the Founder of COO Alliance, a leading community for ops-minded professionals to help them build better companies and develop revenue and profit-generating ideas. He is a business growth guru and the best-selling author of several books, including Double Double, Vivid Vision, and his latest, The Second in Command.

He has been an entrepreneur for almost 20 years and was second in command at several companies. Throughout his career, Cameron has been the mastermind behind the exponential growth of hundreds of companies. Featured in publications, including Forbes, Inc., The New York Times, and Fortune, he is also a top-rated international speaker and hosts the Second-in-Command podcast, where listeners can tune in for tips and insights from other high-level COOs.

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What is the best process for hiring, onboarding, and training your company's second in command? How can you create a trustworthy and mutually beneficial relationship with your COO?

The second-in-command plays a crucial role in the daily operations of a company. From supporting the CEO to acting as an entrepreneur's business partner, a COO helps the business achieve its goals. A valuable and effective second in command must understand and align his or her work with the company's core values, vision, mission, culture, and purpose. This alignment ensures they actively participate in executing the company's objectives and the scaling of the business.

In this episode of the Systems Simplified podcast, Adi Klevit interviews Cameron Herold, the Founder of COO Alliance, about his process for unleashing the power of your second in command. Cameron shares best practices for hiring a COO, tips for delegating work and strengthening the CEO/COO relationship, and how to effectively onboard and train a COO.

Cameron Herold is the Founder of COO Alliance, where he masterminds growth that helps his clients double both revenues and profits in three years or less. He is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author, and he’s also known as the CEO Whisperer. By the age of 35, Cameron had already built two $100 million companies, including 1800-Got-Junk. 

Cameron is a top-rated international speaker and the best selling author of Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years, Less and Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable.

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When it comes to raising capital, many founders often start their search from friends and family. Well, Cameron Herold says that’s the wrong group of people to start asking from. Instead, it would help if you went after the hard money first, and when you do, you want to make sure that you don’t take the wrong kind of money. 

How do you know which investor’s money to take? Cameron Herold says to use the threat of reference check technique. But what does that entail and how do you ask for help when you’re desperate and feeling vulnerable?

Tune in to this episode of What’s Your Ask with Stephanie Sims as she asks Cameron Herold of COO Alliance about finding the right investor, making an effective ask, and more. Stay tuned.