Today we’d like to introduce you to Max Spanier.
Max, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
Last year, I left my cushy, corporate sales job at Marketo (owned by Adobe) to pursue owning and running my side business full time. During my meetings with potential new clients at Marketo, everyone of my customers asked the same question: “This product is great, but do you have anyone in your network that can manage the platform?” It was there that I discovered one of the biggest challenges in my field: the actual recruitment and hiring of people. I’ve lost customers to other marketing platforms such as Hubspot, because it’s easier for a client to set up, and their team can basically run it on auto-pilot, and other clients have told me that they love the product but simply don’t have any people to manage it at all.
So now, I’m taking my seven years of marketing technology software sales and translating it into white glove recruitment for my clients across the nation. I’ve started my own company, Sloane Staffing. At the start of 2020, our goal was to grow Sloane Staffing to become one of INC 500’s fastest-growing businesses in America. We were growing rapidly, on pace to hit the $2M requirements for revenue in one year, hiring on average twelve candidates for our clients every month and adding one new headcount to our office each month as well. It’s crazy to think that what had just started as my wife and I (and our dog, Sloane), grew to having eight employees in our small downtown West Palm Beach office.
But once COVID-19 hit, our world changed dramatically. The last thing any of our clients were thinking about was hiring during the pandemic craziness. We, unfortunately, had to let go of three of our employees (still one of the hardest decisions we’ve made to date), and it all took a toll on my wife and I mentally. We made zero dollars in the months of March and April, and I kept blaming myself for this downturn and “what I could’ve done differently.” My wife and I stepped out of business for a few weeks to decompress and we read, played games, did puzzles, cooked, and whipped out the Kitchenaid that we got for our wedding to make baked goods for our friends and family. My wife has been a marketing manager for many large companies (including ADT Security, Office Depot and Kroger) before she quit corporate to work with me full time, and she had a brilliant idea to host a bake sale in our front yard and then give back any proceeds donated to our local hospitals with a COVID-19 unit. We ended up raising over $1000 and partnered with our local Jersey Mike’s shop to make over 150 sandwiches and donate them to the staff at the Jupiter Medical Center and the Palm Beach Gardens Hospital. The Palm Beach Post even picked up our story!
Fast forward to today, and luckily, we were able to keep two of our employees on with us and they’ve both been instrumental in turning the business around. We were also fortunate to get the Paycheck Protection Program funding from the government, and in May, we’ve made ten placements and have 23 open positions with companies nationwide. We are back and better than ever, and ready to help out all of our new and existing clients expand their teams!
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Sloane Staffing – what should we know?
Sloane Staffing is an award-winning, international recruitment and executive search firm that connects leading corporations, startups, and nonprofit organizations with the highest quality of talent. We are more than just a hiring agency. We are consultants. The secret to our success is positioning ourselves as our client’s internal recruiter, and leveraging our expansive network of potential candidates to source talented individuals who will fit both company and culture needs.
We specialize in digital marketing, sales, & IT but have worked in every industry, from finance to construction, health/wellness & fitness, to treatment centers. What makes Sloane Staffing different than the 1000s, literally, of other recruiters out there is that we are 25-40% less expensive, our speed (we recently hired a Director of Paid Social Media for a client in seven days), and the quality of our candidates (we comb through endless amounts of resumes and take the time to set up and schedule interviews with them, essentially “weeding out” any candidates we don’t feel are a perfect fit for our client’s company.)
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
I owe a lot of credit to my wife, Lindsey Spanier. She actually quit her full-time job before me to go all-in with our then side business. As a Marketing Manager in her past roles, she’s really taken our website/social media presence and PR efforts to the next level. She also pushed me into making that big leap of leaving my high-paid corporate job to become a business owner. She also pushed me to name the company after our fur-baby, Sloane (her face is our logo!)
Our team, Ross and Jen, have been with us through the scary time that was coronavirus/quarantine, and we would not be where we are today without them. We are so grateful that they’ve stuck with us and they have been instrumental in growing Sloane Staffing. And of course, a big thank you goes out to all of our customers and candidates, we appreciate all of them!
Contact Info:
- Address: 319 Clematis Street, Suite 806 West Palm Beach, FL, 33401
- Website: https://www.sloane-staffing.com/
- Phone: 561-512-8989
- Email: max@sloane-staffing.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sloane_staffing/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sloanestaffing/
- Other: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sloane-staffing/
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