Diane Prince walked into staffing with zero recruiting experience. Six years later, she sold her agency for $28 million.

This Is Your Year — Recruiter Summit 2026 (Diane is speaking again — don't miss it)
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Most recruiting agency owners will never have an exit like hers. Not because they aren't good at the work — because they built the wrong kind of business.

Only 27% of recruiting firms have predictable monthly recurring revenue. The other 73% reset to zero every January. They chase placements. Wait on guarantee periods. Watch deals fall off. That's not a business you can sell. That's a job with extra steps.

In this episode, Diane breaks down the recurring revenue model that flipped her agency from the direct hire roller coaster into a $28M sellable asset. She covers why temp staffing is something your clients legally cannot do for themselves, how to use an EOR to strip out the operational headache, the anchor client strategy that kept her billing through 2008 even when Countrywide collapsed into the financial crisis, the easiest BD question to add to every existing client conversation, and why the $218 billion temp staffing market means you only need a tiny slice to change your business.

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