Understanding when to scale your business is important. No one is a tree neither is your business.
Scaling to increase your business profit margin is a good reason. What is even better is scaling to obtain the freedom you need by broadening the scope of your business and hiring qualified talents to run the business.
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Scaling simply means growth in your
business. There are several ways to scale. It could mean opening a new branch, launching a new product, expanding your employee base, or even buying new facilities.
Businesses scale for many reasons. Signs that it is time to scale your business might be;
- Having to turn down opportunities due to the high influx of customers.
- Fewer risk situations around your business making your business processes repetitive.
- Surpassing your goals within lesser timeframes.
- High customer retention and, in turn, more cash flow.
- Proper structure and room for expansion.
Steps To Take When Scaling
Start by taking stock. Understand what your business entails, the core competencies, its offerings, inventory, streams of income, partners, staffing, and practically everything.
When you evaluate, you gain clarity on what needs growth, and you can set SMART goals in those directions. In setting goals, focus on what you want, not where you are.
Be realistic as you walk this path. Depending on your type of business, hoping to scale by 1000% is rarely possible, but you can work towards an achievable number.
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You probably used to wear all the hats in the business, but things are about to change. You need to give a few hats to others so you can concentrate on what matters.
At this point, you need managerial skills to train and teach these talents, so they deliver a great job. Another required skill is knowing what tasks you need a hire for or that need to be outsourced.
Also, recognize the partners you need for your business and collaborate with them to make your job easier and faster.
As much as you have a team that works with you to scale so mechanical tasks like sorting inventory, payroll, or customer relationship management should be standardized. Hence, your business can build a solid structure.
This is where work begins as you will need to focus on your core offerings, build a competitive edge, work on expanding your offerings and increasing your lead flow.
You are trying and testing everything possible to move the business to the next level.
Evaluating the business makes it possible to work on it.
- Build Your Scaling Strategy
What is the goal for the company, and how do you get there?
Build your strategy, set it in motion, and see your business scale.
Attaining the level of freedom such that you can run your business from anywhere in the world requires that you hire the right people and communicate your vision to them.
It is possible to travel the world and run a sound and functioning business, but it comes with scaling. Unless you can tell that your business is thriving, please do not attempt to scale, as it can do even more harm when the time is not right.
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This article was first published on 12th October 2021
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