Often, people who start new businesses do so with little or no business experience and no strategic plan for growth.
They have an idea or something they enjoy doing and someone says to them, “Hey, you should start a business doing that.” Unfortunately, they don’t follow that statement up with, “And be prepared for your entire life to change once you do.”
But that’s the reality.
Does life change for better or for worse? Well, that depends on you.
To create a business you love that funds the life you love, you’ll need to implement strategies of business growth from the start. Here are a few of my favorites.
The Power of Referrals in Your Strategic Plan
When I started my first business over 30 years ago, I realized very quickly that I had so much to learn. As a freelance graphic designer with no strategies of business growth in my toolbox, I quickly realized that business wasn’t going to just come to me. The whole concept Kevin Costner had taught us — “Build it and they will come” — was not necessarily true. I’d have to go out and get the business myself.
The problem was that I was a very shy introvert, which made going out and getting business especially intimidating. And that’s when I first discovered the power of referral relationships. To this day, referral relationships are one of my strongest strategies of business growth.
The Strength in Diverse Prospecting Strategies
Along with that, I learned that having multiple methods of prospecting was important — I couldn’t be a one-trick pony. Over the course of time and multiple businesses later, I’ve found many ways of prospecting and discovered specific techniques for networking with prospects, with clients, and even in personal relationships.
Each case requires a little different approach, and if I’m going to grow my business, I need a strategic plan for networking in a way that isn’t overly salesy. Or too passive. There has to be a mixture.
The Mindset That Fuels the Machine
Getting referrals and networking well are both good ways to invest time, but I’ve learned from my mentor Tony Robbins that neither will work without the right mindset. The number one thing I’ve learned from Robbins — and have experienced for myself —is that mindset is 80% of success. 8-0. That’s big! The mechanics of whatever else I do make up the other 20%. Mindset matters.
Putting All the Strategies of Business Growth Together for a Total Business Breakthrough
Networking. Prospecting. Keeping a strong mindset. When we developed the Total Business Breakthrough event, the idea was that we would put all the strategies of business growth together. We’d take 30 years of experience I had in sales, marketing, management, customer service, and relationship building to create an event where we could teach people the very strategies I’ve discovered for myself so they can create businesses they enjoy going to everyday. Businesses that grow steadily. Businesses they feel confident about. And businesses that fund the life they love.
Brenan Volpe of Sterling Fox Advisors is one example of someone who’s applying the strategies he learned at the Total Business Breakthrough and is steadily growing his business. Here’s what he had to say: “The Total Business Breakthrough was a really great day of training, motivation, and goal orientation. Anyone in sales, customer service, leadership or management would greatly benefit from the program,” Volpe said. “Joe is a phenomenal coach and trainer. He’s helped me take a step back and look at my business in different ways to identify my weaknesses and opportunities for growth. I would highly recommend attending the event if you’re looking for ways to take your business to the next level.”
Celebrating Your Success
Listen, I love doing the Total Business Breakthrough — every second of it that I’m there with the audience. But this isn’t about me. It’s about you. Seeing YOU succeed. Seeing YOU break through a limiting belief to turn your mindset around. Seeing YOU develop a strategic plan for growth and hit a new sales number you’ve been reaching for. It’s so exciting when someone realizes that simple tweaks are all they need for major impact in their business.
What about you? Is it time for you to implement strategies of business growth and make long-awaited changes in your business?
Let’s do this! Together.
Let’s watch those aha moments unfold. Let’s celebrate when somebody — maybe you! — commits to take action to make immediate changes in life and business.
Honestly, I wish there had been an event like the Total Business Breakthrough when I first started my own business all those years ago. In the short time we’ve been doing the Total Business Breakthrough, we’ve already helped hundreds of people have breakthroughs they didn’t think possible.
That’s something I’m proud to share. And I’m honored by the sponsors and other speakers who put their trust in me repeatedly to provide them with an experience unlike any other in the local business training market.
To learn more about how you can create a strategic plan to grow your business and fund the life you love, visit The Total Business Breakthrough at https://www.joenovara.com/the-total-business-breakthrough/
or
https://asheville.incredibletowns.com/event/the-total-business-breakthrough-2/
