Aaron Hovivian is the CEO and Solution Project Lead of The Collab Team. The company is a hub that specializes in creating solutions for transitioning clients seeking to operate at their highest efficiency. The Collab Team focuses on four core areas: people, processes, planning, and projects.

Aaron’s business is turning solopreneurs into eight-figure earners using The Collab Team formula. He attributes his success to being a jack-of-all-trades, which includes understanding team analysis and KPIs and creating roles and responsibilities. Aaron also hosts hybrid and virtual events, including masterclasses.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

• Aaron Hovivian reveals his journey that led to running The Collab Team
• Identifying your business goals
• Why operating systems are essential to scaling a business beyond seven figures
• The importance of documenting SOPs
• Aaron’s justification for investing in overhead
• How solid is your business foundation?
• Aaron shares a case study responsible for elevating a solopreneur to an eight-figure success

In this episode…

Many solopreneurs and small business owners reach a level of success where their company profits millions and then hits a plateau. This often leads to evaluating processes and cutting overhead costs to elevate profits.

Unfortunately, that isn’t always the most effective solution. When it comes to scaling a business to seven figures and beyond, operating systems must be placed in motion. But where do you start? If you think operations drain profits or the thought of creating systems overwhelms you, then this episode is for you.

In today’s episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley sits down with The Collab Team CEO and Solution Project Lead, Aaron Hovivian, to discuss the four foundations that scale a business beyond seven figures, including marketing automation and integrations, customer experience, organizational chart and team, and sales and finance. Plus, Aaron shares a free special gift with the eComm Breakthrough Podcast audience. This is one episode you don’t want to miss. Let’s get started.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Josh Hadley on LinkedIn
• eComm Breakthrough Consulting
• eComm Breakthrough Podcast
• Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com
• Hadley Designs
• Hadley Designs on Amazon
• Aaron Hovivian on LinkedIn
• The Collab Team
• The Collab Team: Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
• Foudations That Scale Masterclass
• Ops Experts Club
• Aaron’s Free Gift for eComm Breakthrough’s Audience
• Keith Yackey on LinkedIn
• Married Game
• Kolbe ATM Index
• Loom
• Pedro Adao on LinkedIn
• 100X Academy

Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Ecomm Breakthrough Consulting where I help seven figure ecommerce owners grow to eight figures. Of course…

Listen, Aaron Hovivian

I started Hadley Designs in 2015 and grew it to an eight-figure brand in seven years.

I made mistakes along the way that made the path to eight figures longer. At times I doubted whether our business could even survive and become a real brand. I wish I would have had a guide to help me grow faster and avoid the stumbling blocks.

If you’ve hit a plateau and want to know the next steps to take your business to the next level, then go to www.EcommBreakthrough.com (that’s Ecomm with two M’s) to learn more.

As a special bonus to my podcast listeners, this month I’m giving away one $10,000 comprehensive business strategy audit session at no cost. Email me at josh@ecommbreakthrough.com with the subject line “Strategy Audit” and tell me why your business should win the free audit for the chance to win and don’t worry, if you don’t win the free strategy audit this month, you’ll automatically be entered for future months.

Episode Transcript

Intro 0:04

Welcome to the eComm Breakthrough Podcast. Are you ready to unlock the full potential and growth in your business? You’ve already crossed seven figures in sales, but the challenge is knowing how to take your business to the next level. Join Josh Hadley, an eight-figure e-comm business owner and investor as he interviews highly successful business owners. Get ready because you’re going to learn specific actions you can take today to help your business reach its full potential and leave a lasting impact on the world.

Josh Hadley 0:37

Welcome to the eComm Breakthrough Podcast. I’m your host, Josh Hadley, where I interview the top business leaders in e-commerce. Today, I’m speaking with Aaron Hovivian, CEO of the Collab Team. And we will be talking a lot about business operating systems and team building. This episode is brought to you by eComm Breakthrough Consulting, where I help seven-figure companies grow to eight figures and beyond. Listen, Aaron, I started Hadley Designs back in 2015. And I grew it to an eight-figure brand in seven years. However, I made a lot of mistakes along the way that made getting to eight figures take a little bit longer than it possibly could have. I experienced a lot of self doubt there were times where I felt like I couldn’t actually grow a real brand, or would my business actually be able to survive, I wish I would have had a guide to help me grow faster and avoid a lot of those stumbling blocks. If you’ve hit those same plateaus and want to know the next steps to take your business to the next level. Then go to eCommBreakthrough.com (That’s eComm with two M’s) to learn more. And as a special bonus to my podcast listeners, this month I’m giving away one $10,000 comprehensive business strategy audit session at no cost. All you need to do is email me at Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com with the subject line “Strategy Audit” for your chance to win. And don’t worry if you don’t win this month, you’ll be automatically entered for future months to come. Today, I’m super excited to introduce you to Aaron Hoviviam, the CEO and Project Lead at the Collaborative Team Management or aka The Collab Team. Not many people can say that they have helped grow a budding solopreneur into a multifaceted eight-figure earning online education platform. Aaron Hovivian did exactly that with Pete Vargas in 2018 and again with Pedro Otto in 2020 and lots of other seven-figure businesses since 2014, when he started The Collab Team. From team analysis to EOS integrations to building out roles and responsibilities, KPIs, key tracking metrics to running hybrid in person, and virtual events. Aaron has done it all, all of this and more for online businesses of all sizes. So welcome to the podcast, Aaron.

Aaron Hovivian 2:52

Hey, Josh. Thanks for having me, man. So good to be here.

Josh Hadley 2:54

Aaron, you’ve got a lot of experiences we can see in operations, you’ve helped grow solopreneurs into multifaceted eight figure brands and helping scale people beyond that. Aaron, let’s back things up and tell me like how did you even get started in operations? Why is that? Your specialty?

Aaron Hovivian 3:11

Yeah. You know, so growing up, my dad was an entrepreneur, my dad was entrepreneurial, you know, and I saw him going out there starting his own business for him was construction for him. He you know, he had been working for some big guys doing construction in Southern California, you know, for his whole career. And at the brave age of 40. You know, he said, Hey, I’m gonna go out and do this on my own, he was able to build this empire for himself, you know, 85 people doing, you know, high rise construction ceilings in LA in Orange County, and I think, inspired by his journey, I think is what inspired me, but I noticed me all growing up, you know, from my earliest jobs, I started working in skateboard snowboard shops as a kid, you know, but even there and I did a lot of retails just starting out a lot of kids do, you know, but I noticed about me is that I always pull it apart systems. Like, I’m always wondering, how can we tweak that? How can we make that better rolling into businesses that don’t have training manuals, and building train met training manuals, you know, looking at their POS system to see how they’re dealing with point of sale, like wondering how the customer journey is gonna be and just complement to you, Josh, even just the sequencing of your automations of sending the invite to this just to be honest podcasts. I was like, That guy gets it. Like, let’s make the customer journey easy, like, let’s take out of the way that they incumbrances the stumbling blocks. And so I think that’s been my journey all the way through. Right before I started, The Collab Team has done project management for a large credit union here in our area in southern Oregon. And I was doing a lot with construction project management, but also project management within the organization and helping with new platforms coming online and managing teams. And I had my first entrepreneur knock on my door and say, Hey, he had been a friend of mine for a lot of years. name’s Keith Yackey. He’s got a great brand out there. He did real estate for a lot of years. And now he’s leaning in somebody calls the Married Game, but Keith Yackey knocked on my door and he said, Hey, what would you think about leaving the credit union and coming out and doing this thing with me? I need somebody that just gets operations you know, they were doing a bit The bus tours, fix and flip education brand. And he was like, I’ve got all the knowledge, I’ve got all the education, I’ve laid out the whole program. I know it’s going to work, but I’m super nervous about the details. What would you think about taking a step with me in this. And so that became my first client for the kolab team. And I left something super stable that kind of like my dad, you know, there’s this corporate gig that, you know, they’ve been around for 50 years, they’ll be around for 50 more, they love me being there. I love them as people, but I just saw that desire in my heart of I want more than that, I want to be entrepreneurial, I want to get out there and get out onto my own brand on my own two feet, and take things to the next level. And so that’s kind of what started me down the journey.