Creating a Subscription Model … Then Stepping Back
Listen to the Episode Below: Touching base and staying involved in all of the goings-on in your business can be a circus! How can you balance every customer relationship and still feel like you’re giving them 100%? (Answer: You just can’t). But there are things you can do that will help you manage your time … Read More
How to Get Your Business Out of Your Head
Listen to the Episode Below: Your business process is no good to anyone if you keep it all in your head. Documenting how your business works and runs is vital to growing and scaling your business successfully, especially in the service business industry. But let’s not mince words–the process can be painful. So how can you undertake … Read More
Hold On … Loosely
Listen to the Episode Below: Ever catch an episode of Undercover Boss? Like them, we often watch our business grow without paying close enough attention to what’s happening right under our noses. Like them, once we begin to hire staff, we start disconnecting with parts of our business. And “disconnecting” can have a bad ripple … Read More
Don’t Let Tech Turn You into a Pavlov’s Dog
Listen to the Episode Below: Don’t be fooled! Efficiency doesn’t necessarily equal success. And relying on technology for efficiency can hurt us and our business if we don’t use the right tech in the right way. That’s right – I’m saying that not all technology is good for your business. Avoiding ways that tech can … Read More
Which Marketing Efforts Pay Off Best?
Listen to the Episode Below: When you think about the time spent on your business, do you count every coffee meeting and lunch date? Meeting with a client you’ve had for years? If you take a closer look at your marketing plan, you may start to see where the hours do – and don’t – … Read More
Avoid the Roadblocks to Smart Hiring
Listen to the Episode Below: I used to get nauseous every time I thought about hiring. How about you? We’re already overstretched (duh–that’s why we’re hiring — so we can scale our business bit by bit). So, not only don’t we have the time to devote to hiring well … but truth be told, we probably don’t … Read More