“Normal Business Problems”
Summary
- The problems you're facing in business are normal.
- Change your mindset and understand that there's nothing wrong with having these challenges.
- Focus on building demand for your product or service.
- You may need to temporarily slow down demand to hire the right people.
- Start by hiring around five people, then bring in a manager to oversee them.
- Keep pushing your sales efforts to support the growing team.
- Once you have about 10 people, consider adding a dedicated sales person.
- Train the new sales person with all your knowledge.
- This new sales person will take about 80 hours of work off your plate each week.
- Remember, it's all a normal part of business growth.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest implementing the following actions for your small business or personal growth journey:
Change Your Mindset:
Understand that experiencing challenges in business is normal. Don’t feel like there's something wrong with your business just because you're facing problems. Embrace the mindset that these obstacles are part of the growth process.Focus on Demand:
Keep concentrating on creating demand for your product or service. This should be a priority to ensure continuous business growth.Throttle Demand When Needed:
Sometimes you might need to slow down on generating demand temporarily. This is crucial when you need to hire the right people to support your business.
Hire the Right Team:
Start by bringing in around five people to support your operations. This will help you manage the increasing demand better.Assign a Manager:
Once you have these initial hires, get someone to manage them. This helps streamline operations and maintain efficiency.Push Sales Efforts:
Continue pushing your sales efforts to support your growing team. Sales drive growth, allowing you to keep scaling.
Expand Your Sales Team:
As your team grows to about 10 people, consider adding a dedicated salesperson. This role is vital as they will help handle the increasing sales workload.Train Your Sales Team:
Spend time training the new salesperson thoroughly with all your knowledge. This investment in education helps them perform better and eases your workload.Offload Work:
Once trained, the new salesperson can take about 80 hours of work off your plate each week. This allows you to focus on other critical areas of your business.
Remember, these steps are all a normal part of business growth. Implement them gradually to see significant improvements without incurring high costs or time investments.
Full Transcript
things that you're dealing with are normal business problem hly the biggest thing is just changing the expectation that there's something wrong I think you focus on demand and you just keep doing that and then like you'll have to throtle demand for a second so you can hire the next guy and then once you have fiveish guys you pull somebody in who can manage them and then you keep selling and selling selling and then eventually you need to sell more in order to fulfill the 10 guys you have now so then you bring a sales guy in and then you teach him everything you know then he takes 80 hours a week off of you and then he's h a second one that's so this is normal yeah man it's normal it's not a bad thing though