Launch Day - Sagan Passport

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Jon Matzner
February 09, 2024

It's like "Costco for Global Talent".

It is the culmination of thousands of hours of work and thinking - much of which you’ve seen unravel in this newsletter!

It's a combination of my favorite place (and business model) - "Costco"

... combined with my favorite people in the world - global talent...

…to create a global talent membership community for business leaders to hire and utilize global talent to grow their business.

As I’ve detailed over the last 10 days on Twitter - I’ve been searching for a better way to help American companies with global talent.

I wanted “tangible” things (like helping with the recruitment, or my sweet playbooks) but I also wanted “intangible” things (like discussions of best practices, or workshops about automation.)

Part Headhunter Part Matznermind Part Managed Service Part Community.

For years, I couldn’t figure out a way to pull it all together… But I finally figured it out.

It’s a lot of things - so I’ll take them one by one:

Concierge Headhunting:

The bedrock of our membership.

Work directly with our expert recruiters to directly hire your ideal candidates - with the number of recruits tailored to your membership tier.

If you plan on making 2 or more hires over the next year, this pricing & benefit alone justifies the cost (compared to alternatives).

  • Planning on hiring 2 people this year?

About $700 in savings (just on the headhunting)

  • Planning on hiring 4 people this year?

About $11,150 in savings (just on the headhunting)

  • Planning on hiring 6 people per year?

About $18,500 in savings (just on the headhunting)

Pre-Negotiated Full Time Candidate Pool:

Skip the job posting hassle and hire directly from our constantly refreshed pool of already-screened Global Talent open to full-time positions at pre-negotiated compensation rates, ready for you to hire INSTANTLY.

This is where we put our “extra” finalist candidates.

Unlimited hires here, at no additional cost to our members.

Freelancer & Vendor Rolodex:

Upwork and Fiverr are disappointing these days.

What if you don’t want to hire full time, but just need someone to build a sweet website for you?

Directly hire our vetted list of expert part-time / freelance professionals and vendors, spanning things like Automation Specialists, Shortform Video Editors, Social Media Content Managers, Data Scrapers, UX/UI Designers, Webflow Experts, CRM Experts, and more.

If we’ve used them (and liked them), we put them here.

Global Talent Templates & SOPs:

A large and growing library of field-tested templates & SOPs built to maximize the leverage and impact of Global Talent on your business.

Digital Community & Office Hours for Owners / Managers:

Learn best practices & have your questions answered in our online community and in live Q&As with our team.

Don’t have the time?

Send your managers instead, so that they can be supported & setup for success.

Digital Community & Office Hours for Your Global Talent:

Give your Global Talent a community of peers & support.

Have their questions answered by our community and in live Q&As with our team to save you time.

Expert Workshops:

A stacked calendar of expert-led workshops on Global Talent topics.

This month we have workshops on creating operational documentation, building a B2B Lead Generation Revenue Ops Team, and 5 Automations every SMB needs.

Sounds expensive as hell, right?

Nah.

Remember - I want to build COSTCO for Global Talent.

You trade me an annual membership commitment… and in exchange I provide a bunch of benefits for free or at low cost.

Our main street membership starts at $10,000 for the year (if paid up front) or $1,000/m if paid in monthly installments.

That includes all the above membership benefits & 6 global talent hires per year… at no additional cost.

Value Added Resellers

In addition to companies that project 2 or more hires over the next year, I also REALLY want people to become members and use us as the fulfillment.

You can start your own global talent business or service offering addition.

Know that corner restaurant selling $4.00 ice cream?

Where do they buy the ice cream from?

COSTCO - for $.25 in bulk.

Same here.

Have a community and want to charge more?

Get a membership, develop a specialization, and resell high margin global talent.

Self funded searcher who is great at outreach to business owners and wants to make some cash?

Get a membership, develop a specialization, and resell high margin global talent.

Got an email list or social media following?

Get a membership, develop a specialization, and resell high margin global talent.

Young 20/30 something hustler who wants to go to Chamber of Commerce events, Cigar Nights, and doesn’t mind the ground game?

Get a membership, develop a specialization, and resell high margin global talent.

No leases.

No employees.

Sweet margins.

I need YOU to build distribution - I’ll do the fulfillment!

99% of the businesses that should be using global talent, aren’t…. but should be - and they need you to help them with it.

I’m good at the global talent game, have recruiters on the ground around the world, and know how to actually build a real business in Global Talent.

Here are a few of our first members.

- Acquisition entrepreneur buying residential HVAC and plumbing businesses

- Owner of Bookkeeping company (using directly and adding to offering)

- Acquisition entrepreneur, former PE, now owner of home service contractor

- Entrepreneur. First crypto company he started raised 32 million USD

- Cofounders of 150 loan officer mortgage company

- Stanford Graduate School of Business, manager of a permanent capital investment business

- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Exited Search Fund CEO, now self-funded acquisition

- Acquisition entrepreneur buying residential Moving and storage Companies

- CEO of B2B Service company

- Head of automation for high profile business owner community

- Leader in an American based manufacturing company

A quick word to other providers

If you are small:

Become a member.

Let me do your fulfillment.

Learn some things.

You can offer great talent, from more countries, and focus on sales & value add stuff.

If you decide to compete with me, I will Costco the shit out of you until all yo margins are gone.

I will be bigger, better, and less expensive.

If you are big:

Ignore me.

Nothing to see here.

Hope my marketing doesn’t find your customers as the market matures.

Or you could try and copy this structure - but I will have a structural price advantage.

Better off ignoring me and saying our candidates aren't very good.

If you are a staffing company, marking up labor and not adding any value:

The pain train is coming - better hope my marketing doesn’t find your customers.

What’s next?

We have a bunch of features on our membership roadmap.

This year I want to roll out (at no additional cost to members):

- Philanthropic Group - Offering free training and English language classes to young people (in particular young women) in the countries we hire from

- Live Events & Workshops for Owners and Managers - in USA

- Local Training, events and social meetups in Global Talent Locations (Buenos Aires, Manila, Bogota, Mombassa likely contenders)

- Custom software tools for working more effectively with global talent. I have a lot I built and use, just need to make public versions.

Let’s Go

If you sign up by Monday at 12PM PST, AND are one of the first 20 members that sign up, I’ll meet with you one on one for an hour to custom “blueprint” your SMBs global talent strategy.

This isn’t some artificial scarcity thing, I just don’t want my wife to divorce me if I all the sudden have 48 one on one meetings on my calendar next month.

I’ll tell you exactly how to use this stuff to grow faster & save money in your business - I’ve done it a hundred times….for small home services companies all the way to middle market PE dudes.

Want to get started?

Respond to this email.

I’m going to personally answer every one, because I’m excited as hell, and want to start things off with a bang.

Also, here are some of our people we've hired in the last 60 days.

The proof is in the pudding:

Want to directly hire folks this good?

They are as low as $800 per month, and none above $2,000 per month.

Yallah Habibi,

Jon

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