Replication, Rebellion & Revenue Leaks with Clair Kim

Clair Kim is a business architect, millennial expert, and social media influencer. She has consulted with over 250+ companies of all stages (from ideation to exit, from no revenue to 10 figures) internationally.

In today’s episode, Clair and Monique are talking about her personal brand as a musician ranked amongst the top 5% of online influencers via Klout in 2015. As well, her frameworks helped companies to increase their revenue by up to 1000% while decreasing their workload by 60%. And in the process, she’s been featured on The Today Show, Forbes, Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Addicted2Success, and more.

When Clair is not geeking out on business-related things, you can find her living her stage life as a musician, or surfing through YouTube for puppy videos.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[01:41] - Monique introduces her guest, Clair Kim.

[03:08] - Tell everyone what you're doing who you are, where you from.

• I am based in Canada.
• I'm a principal consultant at Clairly Designed and what we do at Clairly Designed is conscious companies come to us when they're ready to maximize their growth potential. 

[04:15] - Clair explains what talent and revenue leaks are all about.

[24:42] - How did you find your first clients and how did you make things work?

• Just go online.
• Pretty much all those places online where I knew people will be hiring for these part-time or freelancers. 

[33:50] - You mentioned you have Asian parents. Tell me a little bit about where they're from originally.

• They are South Koreans.

[34:42] - Clair talks about her family and their business.

[38:29] - Tell me a little bit about your music career.

• When it comes to establishing a musician, brand per se, It didn't really happen until I was about 20 years old.

[43:43] - So what would you say is your music genre, more pop, or anything specific?

• t's going to be pop acoustic sort of a thing.

[45:39] - How are you managing your business, consulting, music, puppies, and unicorns as well as food all at once?

• Food is non-negotiable. 
• My golden rule, I don't want to starve. 
• Based on how I work I found that at once I sit down I don't like getting up.
• I like to schedule things on my productivity and my priorities and stuff like that.

[52:43] - What is one question that you wish corporations or business owners would ask you more?

• “How can we recruit the right people in the first place that is not going to fly off six months after they get the job.”

[57:35] - What does efficiency mean to you?

• Things are done in the most optimized and minimum distraction kind of way.

[58:29] -  If you had to start over again with the knowledge that you have today, which three things would you do over and over again to get back up to success again?

• Business structuring activities.
• Working on that lead generation aspect.
• Tuning and optimizing the results creation and client services fulfillment.

AWESOME RESOURCES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE

Craiglist: https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/jjj

AngelList: https://angel.co/jobs

Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

[47:50] - “Whatever you're doing side projects and so on, or even if they seem to be incomplete different industry find a way to tie it back together.” - Clair Kim.

[53:32] - “Only hire people that you know are going to be extremely dedicated to your organization.” - Clair Kim.

[57:48] - “Efficiency means things are getting done in the most optimized way and with minimum distraction.” - Clair Kim.

FIND MORE ABOUT CLAIR KIM HERE

Website: https://clairlydesigned.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairk/?originalSubdomain=ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamwhalie/

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