Sean Agatep

The only way to maintain effective and stable teams is by paying your people more than their peers. The only way to do that across the whole organization is to hire people all over the world. The only way to hire people from all over the world is to have a global team of recruiters, local to the regions they source talent from. The only way for those recruiters to be effective at hiring is to have someone who has actually scaled brands & built teams install effective ecomm hiring practices. There you have it- HireTidal.com is the only way to hire.

When someone asks a question on a zoom call with too many people on it…

Need a bookkeeper who actually knows eCommerce for under $3K/month? 10+ years in the seat. Based in Carmona, Philippines. Currently running 20-30 clients. CIN7, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite. Shopify and Amazon reconciliation plus inventory accounting. Available to interview this week. Let me know.

Eval'd this person for a Sales Ops Director role. The client hired internally but she's too good to sit on the shelf. 16 years in the function. Based in Quezon City, Philippines. eCommerce, automotive, and retail backgrounds. Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, PandaDoc. Can lead a team or go heads-down as an IC. Rare at this level. DM me if you want an intro.

If you’re stuck in the ERP and EDI weeds, I have someone for you. Pre-vetted & available to interview this week. Based in the Dominican Republic. 10+ years in logistics and supply chain, 8+ in e-commerce. She runs complex ERP and EDI operations end to end. Order management, 3PL coordination, the works. SAP, Oracle, Power BI. She builds visibility dashboards and tracks KPIs across the full operation. DM me if you want an intro.

What people think founders talk about in our weekly meetings: "Let's talk about the vision for the brand and adjust the cap table" Reality: "Who's email did we use for the login Iowa's state tax portal- they're claiming we owe 2016-2023 and I've been on hold for the past hour with no idea if it's real, how much we owe and a way to pay it"

@itsmarcosruiz Getting an ADA compliance lawsuit

Biggest online business canon events: • First $10k month • Abusing stimulants • Digital nomad phase • First killer case study • Shiny object syndrome • Hiring your first employee • Travelling to LatAM or SE Asia • Waking up to your first viral post • First performance deal that prints • Being invited to your first podcast • Client churns after you crush it for them • Becoming a regular at local coffee shop • Buying a course you never end up using • Someone you look up to following you back • Family confused about what you do for a living • Genuinely changing someone's life for the first time • Friends asking for advice on how to get into online biz

@natelagos Then all that's left is a barbed wire bicep tat

@SeanAgatep No I broke my collarbone on a dirt bike years ago - 60mph into the pavement was not fun. Sticking to 4 wheels from now on

I’m wrapping up my mid life crisis, anything else I should do? Or buy? Or change?

The best teams I've seen all have one thing in common- They pay their people more than their peers. Not 5% more. Meaningfully more. Enough that leaving would be a bad financial decision, not just an emotional one. Most founders can't actually do this. Payroll is already a giant line item. You can't just decide to pay 30% above market and absorb it. But you can do that when you hire globally. The math works for everyone: • Senior experience at a cost structure that let us actually invest in keeping them • Our mid-level hires top-of-market pay for their region, autonomy in their role, and a real seat at the table • Turnover stays low because there was no peer down the street offering 20% more The hiring-an-expert-who's-done-it-before play usually isn't feasible domestically. Global hiring makes it accessible. Pay people what they're worth. Give them autonomy. Just hire where the dollar goes further so you can actually afford to do both. hiretidal.com/guide

Solid CX hire available for under $2K/month. 8 years in the seat. Philippines-based. Amazon Seller Central, Shopify, Gorgias, Ontraport, Helium 10. Been inside full eCommerce stacks. Knows the tools and the volume. Reach out if you need someone in that seat.

The Slack command + paste shortcut is different from every other app. Anyone know why? It's like the guy who wears shorts in winter because his "legs don't get cold." Technically fine. Annoying to everyone around him.

A brand I was talking to recently was looking to hire a part-time accounting manager to clean up their books. I've seen this a lot. Messy financials, bring someone in, hope it gets better. The issue is the hire can't outrun a diagnosis you haven't done yet. At Vincero Collective we went through this. Scaled fast, supply chain got complicated, and our books reflected that chaos. COGS was a disaster. Inventory valuation was unreliable. The way we tracked everything in our PO’s never matched cleanly with WIP, PO credits and rebates weren’t reconciled correctly, it gets complicated fast. We kept thinking the answer was another set of hands. “We just need an accountant to figure it all out.” It wasn't. The answer was figuring out where the problem actually lived. In order to do it, we had to understand the why. A generalist accountant can't fix a COGS problem they don't understand yet. A marketing team making decisions based off of murky books compounds the problem. A founder who has no confidence in their financials isn’t paying themselves…which is the whole point of running a business in the first place. Figure out your hardest accounting problem first. Then hire for it.

9+ years in Sales Ops Support for SAAS. <$3K/month. Based in Bogota, Colombia. Former Director of Sales who moved into ops, so he's closed high-value deals and then built the process around replicating them. Pipedrive, HubSpot, Asana, Jira. If you're scaling and need this covered, DM me, will intro.

@thevinesevolve @ron_ecomm Big moves! That’s awesome

@ron_ecomm We're shooting for robotics launch over here by summer 2027

What's going to happen to 3PLs cost structure with humanoid robots? When will brands get the savings from this? Can any 3PL owner shed some light?

@MehtabKarta +1 for foxpoint farms

Fun stuff to do with a 1.5 year old in San Diego in June?

I’m looking for a creative and technically proficient rockstar who can own strategy and execution and is willing to work for mediocre pay….

Eval'd this person for a CS role. The scope shifted toward ops and EA support but she can do both. Based in the Philippines. 6 years across customer service and ops. HubSpot, Notion, Trello, Slack. Uses ChatGPT and Claude day-to-day. Already working the way most teams are trying to get everyone to work. DM me if you want an intro.

Does anyone need a CX hire who can also run QA? Based in Taguig City, Philippines. 4+ years in the function, most recently leading a team of 25 reps. He ran audit reviews, pulled performance data, and kept the team tight. Shopify background. Reach out and I'll make the intro.