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Stage 6: Power (6 Stages of Business Growth)

If you survive the travails of early business and stay the course through the challenges of stability, eventually you'll become a key person of influence in your industry. Influence is a fundamental measure of power. Power, like wealth, is one … Continue reading →

Stage 5: Wealth (6 Stages of Business Growth)

With quality control systems in place once your business becomes stable, you can look forward to a business that provides true wealth. Certainly, we all realise that "wealth" doesn't mean money, or at least, not just money. You have satisfying … Continue reading →

Stage 4: Stability (6 Stages of Business Growth)

Congratulations! You've survived the chaos that takes down many small businesses. You have systems in place to keep the pipeline filled with prospects, and to manage the tasks and projects as they come in. Oh; and there's an accounting system … Continue reading →

Stage 3: Chaos (6 Stages of Business Growth)

As any gardener or parent will tell you, growing things are rarely tidy. If you've served your network well in Stage 1 and emerged from invisibility, then given your growth the fuel it needs in Stage 2, you get to … Continue reading →

Stage 2: Emergence (6 Stages of Business Growth)

Yesterday we talked about Stage 1, Invisibility. To grow to the next level, the typical reaction is to spend, but the real solution is to serve. In Stage 2, you begin to emerge from invisibility. You're not exactly a household … Continue reading →

Stage 1: Invisibility (6 Stages of Business Growth)

In yesterday's post I introduced you to the 6 stages every business goes through, the typical entrepreneurial reaction at each stage, and the correct-but-not-intuitive real solution. At Stage 1, you are invisible. No one but your mother has heard of … Continue reading →