#GrowNOW The Podcast

Sooner or later, when we are entrepreneurs, our business will grow and we have to consider adding a few people to the team. The that happens we will have to approach the very important subject of how much will they get payed.

First thing is first, a few questions have to be answered:

* How do we know that we pay them enough?

** What is the risk when we pay them too much?

*** How important is to have close interactions with the people we hire? Should we influenced by feeling or vibes?

This episode will address exactly these questions that we would be right in considering before hiring someone to join our team.

Knowing your worth in terms of your knowledge and expertise, can help you determine the answer to 2 important questions in your life:

1. How much can you charge for your time (work) ?

2. How and where do you invest your time?

Even if they are not such easy questions to face, it can on the other hand bring a lot clarity to your level of confidence also.

In this episode you will find 3 steps on how to reach a balance between not feeling frustrated because you are charging too little, and not feeling as an impostor because you are charging too much .

It seems logic that once you open your own company, work on it, invest a lot of time in developing and making it successful, when the moment comes and it starts generating money, the amount made is by default yours, right? Well, yes and no. There are some risky behaviours when mixing personal finances with those of your company and thinking that there is nothing wrong if you consider that now , you as an individual, have just created another pocket where you can store YOUR money.

In today’s episode we will give you a few important keys on how to set boundaries for your financial entities and create a line between what is yours and what you manage as a company.

In the previous episode, we were pointing out that one way of dealing with curious potential clients, is to direct them to your free content, which will give them already a feel of your work or your product, without you having to invest time and jump directly into phone calls with them. But how to make sure people are interested in your content in the first place?

Social media is just like any other market out there: people either have a NEED or a DESIRE for a service, product, etc and they go looking for information of the different social media platforms. But what does actually sell on social media?

This week’s episode we take a look at what type of free content and information we can provide for those potential clients that are just browsing.

Investing time until you manage to strike a deal with a curious client, is absolutely normal until you start feeling that no progress is being made. Understanding from the beginning the reasons why these clients are looking for you and why they need you, is key.

Do you think that a client is continuing the conversation because he is interested in your coaching service for example, or because you are offering some advice and insight for free?

Today’s episode will help with any doubts you might have about potential clients.

How much should we get involved with curious clients? Those that call up, ask for a ton of information ( sometimes even a contract ) and then never answer your follow up call or email.

Especially in the service business, we tend to spend a lot of time looking ourselves for clients, until we reach the stage that they will come looking for us. Is absolutely normal to invest time with any potential client, but now the question is “how much time”?

Do you think that a client is continuing the conversation because he is interested in your coaching service for example, or because you are offering some advice and insight for free?

In this episode we offer 5 steps on how to distinguish a curious client from a serious client and also how to deal with them.

As entrepreneurs, we like TO DO : to solve, to make a better life for those around us, to find new ways of fulfilling demands. As a result, constantly moving, we tend to overdue, just out of a “fear” that our lack of any kind of action will have negative results.

Today’s topic comes on the heels of last week’s episode, when we addressed the 3 essential choices that entrepreneurs can always fall back on: choose the focus, the environment or the actions. And today we are talking about those priority actions, high level, relevant behaviours that are strategic for these times.

Assuming the position of an entrepreneur means that we are leaders, in the same time as we become a sort of role-model for our community, our teams and our families. There for, in moments of crisis or stress, feeling powerless or feeling guilty for what someone else is going through, doesn’t really benefit us because that puts us away from the “action mode” that will actually help us move forward. Having a constant view on events keeps us connected to the problem 24/7 . So how do we keep an emotional hygiene during these times?

In this episode we talk about the 3 essential choices for entrepreneurs that can serve as a guideline

1. Choose the focus

2. Choose the environment

3. Choose the actions

As the world is still under the shock of a raising war ( in this day and age) we are again confronted with the same fears and doubts as 2 years ago: when an unexpected crisis arrives, how well are we prepared for it? Looking objectively to the developing situation in Ukraine, we can’t help but understand that in no time, the conflict that started between 2 countries, it has the potential to turn into an European war.

In today’s episode we will gloss over a few key aspects of what we, as entrepreneurs, can do in a situation like this. First is to asses clearly your own situation and understand how a global conflict may affect you locally.