How ManageFlitter's CEO & Founder Kevin Garber Gets Success with his Global Virtual Team
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In this episode, Kevin Garber, CEO & Founder of ManageFlitter shares some great insights into his own personal journey with virtual teams, including the benefits of tapping into global talent pools vs local talent pools.
 
After developing ManageFlitter to satisfy a need of his own, Kevin has grown a highly successful company that has been built on the notion of ‘The quality of your team is everything!’.
 
Some of the areas covered include:

The quality of your team determines so much about the success of your company
Why communication is so important, both written and face-to-face, within a virtual team
Don’t make assumptions when it comes to ‘thinking’ you know what someone else wants or needs
Souring the right people for your team and ensuring they are a good fit, both for the job and the culture of your team

 

Let us know in the comments below what your key takeout has been from this episode or why not join the continuing conversation over in the Virtual Success Facebook Group.

 
Resources mentioned in this show:
www.manageflitter.com
In this episode:
01:50 - What is ManageFlitter?

05:48 - Building the team

07:36 - The quality of your team is everything

09:20 - How to keep your team connected

12:19 - Keeping the communication complete

13:32 – Be clear in your communications

15:08 - Eradicate assumptions

16:54 - Bringing new team members onboard

19:00 - Guidelines around communication

21:32 - Sourcing the right people

23:02 - Incentivizing your team

25:46 - Offering your team flexibility

27:20 - Wrapping things up

Barbara:  Hey, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Virtual Success Show, where I'm joined by my fantastic co-host, Matt. Hey, Matt. How's it going?

Matt:  Good, Barb, and yourself?

Barbara:  I'm well. I'm well. I'm really, really looking forward to today's show, because I love when we have a guest on, so as all the listeners know, we tend to try and find guests that are running large virtual teams so that we can actually get that sort of inside scoop from them on how we actually can get more success with this and what the benefits of it actually are. Today's guest, I'm really happy to welcome Kevin Garber, who is the CEO and co-founder of a fantastic tool called ManageFlitter, which I am currently trialling at the moment. We'll get into what that is in just a second, and he's also the host of the It's a Monkey Podcast, which talks all things tech, entrepreneurship, scalable business. Kevin, welcome to the show.

Kevin:  Thank you so much for inviting me on. I'm excited to be here.

Barbara:  Yeah, and I know, we've talked before you've got some great insights to share, I guess, around the journey with virtual teams and the benefits, I guess, of global talent pools versus more local talent pools and all that sort of thing. Before we kick off into that, give us the ManageFlitter story. What is ManageFlitter, and why should we care?
What is ManageFlitter?
Kevin:  ManageFlitter is a set of search filtering and sort tools that sits on top of your Twitter account, helps you work smarter and faster with Twitter. We have paid customers from over 100 countries, although the bulk, at the moment, in the United States, and the bulk of our users are people that use social a lot. They use Twitter a lot. They use our product to clean up their account. They use our product to grow their account with the right followers, to search for people tweeting about certain topics and to easily follow them in a compliant way that keeps Twitter happy and keeps your account in good shape. It's a nice set of tools for people that use Twitter a lot. We've been around since 2010. The tool was actually built internally first for myself, so I discovered Twitter on a trip to San Francisco. I can't remember, it was 2008 or 2009 and I started using Twitter quite a lot,