Introduction: How to Grow a Business Fast
Succeeding In Spite of Everything
Do you have systems in your business? The reason I ask the question, is that the most successful people do. Would you like to learn how to grow your business fast? I do, and I hope you do too.
At the eWomenNetwork Conference in Dallas, Texas, in front of an audience of about 1,000 people, Sandra Yancey shared her Soaring Six, the business model, she used to grow her business into a multimillion dollar enterprise.
Whether you are interested in how to grow a business online, or how to grow a small business, or even how to grow a business fast, the information is relevant to you. I think that if you have an online business, to attain phenomenal success, you have to use both online and offline strategies.
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How to Grow a Business Fast – Soaring Six (The Six Ps)
The Soaring Six has six legs, and each leg is very important. If you are truly interested in learning the secret to how to grow your business fast, you have to work on each of the six components in Sandra Yancey’s Soaring Six. The six components of the business model include:
- People
- Priorities
- Plate
- Products
- Processes
- Performance
6 Ways to Maintain & Sustain a Successful Business | Sandra Yancey
How to Grow a Business Fast: People
No one ever succeeds alone, so people are important to your business growth. Who are you hanging out with? You are the conductor of your business, and there comes a time when you take someone as far as he or she can go with your business. Set aside 15 minutes to do a simple exercise. Make one list of the people who inspire you, and another list for those who tire you. In a perfect world, you would shed the people who tire you. But we do not live in a perfect world, and you cannot shed everyone who tires you. The next best thing is to limit the amount of time you spend around the people who drain you – that you cannot shed. Strategically choose the people you will work with.
How to Grow a Business Fast: Priorities
What are the priorities in your business? Take time to answer this question, because it’s critical if you are interested in growing a business fast. Right now, I offer the services: Writing, Ghost Blogging, and Interviewing. But there are only 24 hours in a day, therefore, an important priority for me to grow my business is to create products. It’s important for me to offer products to sell 24/7. This allows me to take vacations without worrying about no income coming in. After I have created some key products for my business, I will have other priorities to work on. Now it’s time to answer the question, what are your key priorities?
How to Grow a Business Fast: Plate
Succeeding Through Doubt, Fear and Crisis
Visualize a dinner plate with all the things you are doing to run your business smoothly. Decide on the roles you play in your business and align them with your time. Ditch the non-essential activities. Delegate the activities that others can do better. Do the things that only you can do.
What are the successful people doing that you are not doing? Let the phrase, Start, Stop, and Continue become one of your mantras. At the beginning of each month, decide which things you will start to do to grow your business.
Stop doing things that others can do. If you add something to your plate, you have to take away something. Continue doing only the things you can do. This process is continuous improvement. And it’s essential to growing a business fast.
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How to Grow a Business Fast: Products
You need a product that represents your unique message. Everything you generate in your business has three purposes. For example, say you write an amazing blog post, you should use juicy pieces from it for a Facebook status update. And you should also pull out pieces to tweet. Additionally, if you have the mindset of creating products for your business, you will generate many ideas – all the time – on products to create.
Every three blog posts make a chapter in a book. When you turn your blog posts into a book, you can use it as a lead generation tool. Everything is a product. Spend time developing content to give away for free. That’s one way of growing a business fast.
Tip: You can use the WordPress Plugin, Beacon, to convert your blog posts to an e-book.
How to Grow a Business Fast: Processes
A process is a collection of interrelated tasks. Learn to replicate and duplicate your successes. Plan, Do, and Review. Plans are important, but taking action is more important. You have to review your actions to see how effective they are. Preparation reaps success.
How to Grow a Business Fast: Performance
Measuring helps you to achieve powerful performance. You have to measure levels of customer satisfaction. Don’t be afraid to ask customers how they feel about you and your service? Do they value their overall experience with your company? Will they purchase from you again? If yes, ask for referrals. They are raving fans and complementary partners. ACT now – Action Changes Things!
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Final Thoughts on Growing a Business Fast
If you are contemplating growing your business fast, consider implementing Sandra Yancey’s Soaring Six. It’s a business model that’s worked very well for her. She is a multimillionaire, so she obviously knows things that we don’t. Take the Soaring Six and make it yours. Stand on the shoulders of a giant, to see further down the road. That way you can course correct, making changes to the model so that it's more effective.
I interviewed Sandra Yancey, below you can read it.
Business Success Stories – Sandra Yancey
Business Success Stories – Sandra Yancey Part 2
Business Success Stories – Sandra Yancey Part 3
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