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041: Is Complexity In Your Business Stopping Growth?

Do you ever feel like your business is weighed down by operational costs that just aren’t serving it? Has growth created complexity in your business?  

If your business is feeling sluggish and weighed down by high and unnecessary running costs you could be feeling what I call, business bloat. As time passes what we once needed isn’t necessary anymore or different parts of the business just aren’t performing as they should.  

In this episode, I talk about what bloat looks like in business and how to identify and remove some of the factors that cause it. I also breakdown different ways you can promote a bloat-free culture in your organisation. 

Listen in to get tips on stopping your business from having excessive costs and how to stay focused on the big picture. I hope this episode will help you make your business more streamlined, efficient, and successful! 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • What does bloat look like in your business
  • Why it’s important to keep your business as simple as possible (00:26)
  • Possible areas for your business (01:12)
  • Things you may be paying for that you don’t actually need (05:23)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
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034: Roadmap To A $1bn Business

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How do you build a billion dollar business? 

A question lots of entrepreneurs ask. 

When companies enter a new growth stage, they must essentially become a new organization. The things that made it successful at the beginning may not be the same things to successfully take the organisation to the next stage. 

In this episode, we delve into the different stages of building a billion dollar business. What to focus on at each level, and the challenges business owners face at each level.  

Building a billion dollar business is definitely hard work but it is possible. By breaking the journey into stages, the process becomes more comprehensible and attainable. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Stages you go through in building a $1B company (6:00)
  • It’s not a linear process (6:22)
  • Fear of progress (11:30)
  • Just building a business is exciting enough (13:00)
  • Switching your thought process to protectionism (16:50)
  • Where focus goes, energy flows (17:55)
  • ($0 to $1 million): Prove the Idea (21:33)
  • ($1million to $3million): Prove the product (22:33)
  • What is it that the clients really need? (24:00)
  • Narrowing down your product before scaling (24:48)
  • ($3 million to 10 million): Proving the market (25:09)
  • Six human needs (30:11)
  • How to grow and level up (33:00)
  • ($10 million to $30 million): Prove the business model (35:00)
  • ($30 million to $100 million): Prove the vision (38:38)
  • ($100 million to $300 million): Prove the industry (40:05)
  • ($300 million to 1 billion): Prove the company (41:15)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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030: Increasing Customer Engagement in a Subscription Service Business

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The law of nature is that value diminishes over time for most things. 

In a subscription service business, how can you make sure that your services are valuable enough to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business? How do you ensure that you are valuable to your client over a longer period of time? 

If you have a subscription service-based business and are looking for ways for your customers to stay longer, this is a great episode for you. 

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Chasing clients for content as a subscription-based business (2:39)
  • Challenges of subscription-based businesses (5:30)
  • The balance of value-exchange (6:30)
  • How to increase customer engagement (7:11)
  • How to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business (8:22)
  • Diminishing value over time (8:40)
  • The pain of disconnect (10:22)
  • The importance of the perception of clients (13:30)
  • Connecting with client’s perceptions (15:20)
  • It’s all about relationships and connections (16:53)
  • Developing the people in the business as humans (17:20)
  • Intimacy and vulnerability (18:10)
  • Building trust (19:00)
  • Creating a culture of vulnerability (21:10)
  • Building empathy (21:58)
  • Emotional awareness of self (21:25)
  • Finding the balance of reaching out to clients (24:45)
  • Processes and systems as your business grows (34:08)
  • Lead magnet ideas (41:00)

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Like this episode? Have topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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029: What’s Real For You In Feb 2021

In this episode of Entrepreneurs Rising, we are doing something a little bit different. 

We are sharing a new section we want to call “What’s Real for Your Right Now,” giving a snapshot of what we’re working on in our business, our views, frustrations, and what we’re excited about. 

What’s real for you in your business? What are you working on in your business or something you’re struggling with now? 

Share it in the comments, we’d love to hear from you and we may even choose you to feature in our upcoming episodes. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Slow down in new client sign ups (1:35) 
  • Removing yourself in your business (2:30)
  • Deciding which fires to let burn and to put out (3:49)
  • Write down your action items (4:39)
  • Being ruthless with your time (7:30)
  • How do we bridge the gap between customers who stay and those who don’t (8:04)
  • Google workspace (8:50)
  • The most effective thing you can do as a business owner (9:11)
  • Automating of manual work (10:50)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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021: Aligning Your Business with Personal Fulfilment

Is it possible to be successful in business yet not feel fulfilled? The answer is a definite YES. 

In order to find fulfillment in your business, ask yourself “does this business align with my purpose in life?”

In this episode, we delve into how to align your values and purposes in your business in order to attain personal fulfillment. 

The principle of lifestyle design means designing the life you want where your occupation does not feel like work but doesn’t also consume your world completely. It is essential to have an occupation that is by choice fulfilling to you because that will literally extend your life. 

Remember that life is just a game and you get to play it any way you want to play it. You get to design the life you want, on your terms. 

How do you find fulfilment in your business?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Running multiple businesses and splitting your focus  (5:08)
  • Is this the thing that lights you up? (5:30)
  • Treat the business as a means to an end (5:46)
  • Look at what lights you up and how you can bring that into your business (6:10)
  • Getting clear on your life purpose (6:50)
  • Motivation vs purpose (10:48)
  • Knowing your values (11:05)
  • Organizational flow (12:40)
  • Heart-centered leadership (14:39)
  • Optimization and seeing improvement (16:13)
  • Checking in with what’s important in your business (17:20)
  • Your purpose depends on where you are in your business (19:44)
  • Life is a game (20:30)
  • Have an occupation that lights you up (21:48)
  • Lifestyle design (22:23)
  • Having a life on your own terms (22:53)
  • Consciously going through life (23:41)
  • What brings fulfillment? (24:33)
  • What’s the progress and the next level? (25:29) 
  • Mindset shift (28:03)
  • Look at your business and look at how you can realign it to your purpose (30:20)
  • If your business was more fulfilling, would you change your mind on selling it? (33:30)
  • Business is the best personal development journey (35:19)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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020: What’s Stopping You From Growing Your Business

Do you enjoy a good challenge? 

As entrepreneurs, we’re wired to create solutions to problems, innovate, and take on new challenges. But there are times when we feel like our business has plateaued. We either push past the plateau or sit in comfort.

In this episode, we delve into how to recognize when your business is at a plateau and how to grow past that. We unpack the four questions you can ask yourself to change your mindset and get comfortable with growth.

Welcoming the feeling of being uncomfortable during growth means changing your mindset. Are you robbing yourself of growth by having a mindset to be comfortable and be scared of change, or taking on more risks? Stop thinking about yourself and how you want to stay comfortable. Instead think about how you can help and serve others. 

It is only with pressure that growth is achieved. 

What thoughts are stopping you from growing your business?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Growth is our own responsibility (3:20)
  • We can only operate at the level of consciousness we are in (3:30)
  • What’s stopping you from where you are now to where you want to get to (4:25)
  • Make your own success (5:10)
  • Getting stuck in a plateau (6:00)
  • 2 types of plateaus (6:10)
  • Growth to plateau to growth (6:45)
  • Feeling uncomfortable during growth (8:35)
  • As the business grows, so do the stakes at risk (10:12)
  • How to recognize when you are in a plateau (14:18)
  • Taking big actions and decisions (16:15)
  • The leader in the business is the bottleneck (18:45)
  • What is the mindset that stops the growth of a business (19:00)
  • Growth equating to more work (19:16)
  • More clients means more workload (20:20)
  • There will always be mistakes in your business (21:44)
  • Feeling comfortable and not wanting to grow (21:54)
  • Stop thinking about yourself instead think about how you can help others (23:19)
  • Optimizing for time and impact (25:40)
  • What drives people? (27:18)
  • Asking yourself these 4 questions when deciding how to grow your business (30:36)
  • 1. Is that true? (31:28)
  • 2. Can you absolutely know that this thought is true? (32:00)
  • 3. How do I react when I believe this thought? (33:05)
  • 4. Who would you be without that thought? (35:05)
  • Feeling unworthy when you make mistakes (36:50)
  • You are exactly where you need to be (38:36)
  • Swap your “have to’s” with “get to’s” (39:36)
  • Choices are gifts and opportunities (40:35)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
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Facebook
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below.