We're Opening Our Doors to 7-Figure Founders This September

**Richard** (0:00)
The first workshop is going to be around building an accurate forecast, and that's going to involve things too, like thinking about your brand specific, like LTV and how retention and subscription might work with that, but really what it's going to be about is modeling out revenue so that you have some understanding, not only on how to allocate budget for paid, but also what inventory purchasing is going to look like and how it all comes together to maximize profitability, which is of course incredibly crucial at this stage.
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He's been on this podcast by himself, he's been on it with me many times before.
So you'll get to meet Luke, chat with him in person. And then our next workshop is going to be led by Dane who heads up, he's our VP of Employee Development and Performance here at CTC. He's going to be talking about how to build the right team. And this really is, I think, an underrated part of growing a business and honestly one of the most important pieces, which is to find the right people, put them in the right seats and then keep them. And Dane is a wizard at that and he's going to walk you through how we do that here. Then Ally, our Director of Growth Strategy, is going to walk you through how to build a creative operating system. I know for many of you at the Seventh Figure Range, this is the number one thing on your mind right now. And we're going to show you exactly how we construct the pipeline of creative to actually get... Everybody knows that you need a lot of creative. You need diverse creative. And everybody's like fairly good at coming up with ideas, but how do you actually bring those to life? How do you actually go from A to Z? We're going to actually walk you through how we build a creative operating system.