#GrowNOW The Podcast

Wanting to be in business can come natural for some of us, but most of time young people get inspired from hearing success stories, inspirational life stories that can light a fire inside them and put them on the path of entrepreneurship.

Today’s episode gathers a fey keys and tips for the younger generation, but that are relevant for anyone that is thinking of becoming a business owner.

Before being business people, we are human, our personal lives can affect us more than we would like it to. More so, when an impactful negative event like the death of a loved one or a breakup falls on us out of the blue. If we would be normal employees, we know that somebody else would step in and take over our responsibilities. But what happens when we are solo entrepreneurs and our business and income depends on just us?

This episode will go over 5 ideas that can prove to be truly beneficial when dealing with dramatic events in our personal life and how to use them in real life situations.

Investing time and sometimes money in a big business can result in starting to feel like the good results will never come and impatience settles in. When that happens, we tend to focus on the things that are lacking, that are missing in that moment. When will things start moving, when will we sign the contract, etc? As a result, inefficiency is also a by-product here because we can’t seem to just focus on something else.

Today’s episode adresses a few steps how we can control our impatience and let things flow.

Clients who choose a successful businesses over and over again, when they receive excellent service and a quality product. But the businesses that thrive through excellence are the one that offer more than the client payed for, and most of the time, provide additional services that the client doesn’t even know he needs.

The secret is about understanding your client, sometimes even better than he does. And more so, is about the experience that have, the emotion that is left behind.

So, for a few tips on how to build a business based on excellence, today’s episode is for you.

We can all agree that signing up clients for your business is just the beginning of the adventure. The real secret is to always offer more than they expect…. Much more! By constantly listening to them, we will manage to transform their life with our products and services. Now the true secret is to follow up with them, in a clear, easy formal way.

This episode will show you how we can do that, for everyone’s benefit.

When an entrepreneur has a successful business and his clients are happy with his products, the temptation is to just lay back and enjoy the success, which is an absolutely normal and understandable behaviour. The secret is to do it consciously though. Not to expect that things will just magically be like this always. Because we all know that to grow a business it takes dedication and not resting on our glory.

In a logical context, a business cannot grow unless there are clients willing to purchase their products. The idea is that along the way, we as entrepreneurs, want to help our clients improve their life or their own business with the help of our product or service. So the question should always be, when a client is happy with us, how can we help them grow their life or business even further than the results we are getting now? There is always room for improvement, isn’t it?

One of the secrets is to really know THAT CLIENT, that specific client!

This episode details some insights into how we can get to know our clients better and the steps to take, if we want to serve them better, that in the end they end up buying more from us.

One would tend to believe that someone who had already a successful business, when opening a new one, knows what to do and how to go about it in the best way. But that is not always the case. As it so often happens, new beginners in the entrepreneurship world, are much more daring and innovative. In the business world, what you don’t know can become your greatest assets, because not knowing the answers upfront, pushes you to look in more than one direction and not feel so intimidated.

This episode of the mini-series focuses on finding those first clients for a truly new business, for those entrepreneurs that have the confidence and only need some guidance.

In this episode of the miniseries on “New Clients”, we talk about established businesses or entrepreneurs, what are the ways to upgrade of their business and get new clients.

Referrals and promoting via a partner are just 2 ways to go about expanding your client list. Curios to find the third way? Listen to this week’s episode.

Having loyal clients and customers, can result in very beneficial relationships over time but it also has 2 main issues: it creates a sort of dependence and it can keep you in a circle where you keep doing the same thing, not challenging you to maybe create new products and packages or explore other markets.

And as we well know, entrepreneurs love a good challenge or upgrade of their business.

So getting in the habit of always trying to get new clients it can prove to be redefining and renewing for any business. This episode will go over a few sustainable benefits of getting new clients.

Do you even consider the possibility that your full involvement in some projects may not be either value or needed? That time when put in balance with money, is more valuable?

Life experience has taught us that the answer to these type of questions is never straight forward, all is relative. And comparing money with time is in a way pointless because time is the only resource we can never make more of. We can always make more money, but never more time.

Today’s episode will reveal 5 tips on how you can improve and upgrade your beliefs about time and your own worth.