From Single to Scale - How a Single Person, Small Business, or an Entrepreneur Can Grow Their Business to Profit

von: Michael Killen

Apress, 2018

ISBN: 9781484238141 , 221 Seiten

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From Single to Scale - How a Single Person, Small Business, or an Entrepreneur Can Grow Their Business to Profit


 

Contents

5

About the Author

6

Acknowledgments

7

Chapter 1: Why You Need to Scale

8

Recurring Revenue

8

Working in the Business

17

Bigger Businesses Don’t Buy (at Scale) from Single-Person Enterprises

23

Break Free from the Feast and Famine Consulting Project Income Cycle

26

Summary

30

Chapter 2: What’s Stopping You From Scaling?

31

No Spare Funds

35

Marginal Gains

35

Do People Want You?

37

Busy or Effective?

41

Can My Business Scale?

42

Quitting Your Job

42

Never Run a Business

46

Other Businesses in My Network Have Told Me It’s a Bad Idea or I Can’t Do It

47

Summary

47

Chapter 3: Types of Single-Person, Scalable Businesses

48

Summary

67

Chapter 4: Developing a Scalable Product from What You’ve Got

69

Before and After

71

Map Out Each Stage

76

Create Blog Posts

78

Promoting the Webinar

83

Creating a Course

84

Affiliate Marketing

93

Summary

94

Chapter 5: Creating Content for a Scalable Product

95

10 Topics

96

10 Subtopics

96

Explorer Posts

103

Promise

103

Problem

104

Myth

104

What’s Changing?

104

What Do Most People Do?

105

What to Do Differently

105

Next Steps

105

Repurpose Written Content

105

How to Get More Shares

107

Collect Testimonials

108

Sales Letter Style Content

108

Networking Lunch

112

Summary

113

Chapter 6: Building a Larger Audience

114

We’re Building Two Lists

114

Would You Honestly Read That?

116

Would You Really Share That?

116

Killer Blog Post with Lead Magnet

121

Send Remarketing Traffic to Squeeze Pages

125

Comment Marketing

130

Summary

133

Chapter 7: Connecting More of That Audience to a Scalable Product

134

Content Silos

135

Splinter Product Creation

137

The Thank You Page

139

Scarcity and Changes

141

Knife Twist

141

Benefits

142

CTA 1: Act Now

142

Our Background

142

Guarantee

142

CTA 2: Safety and Results

142

Pricing

143

Fear: Ego

143

CTA: Next Steps

143

Dos and Don’ts

143

Get on the Phone!

147

Summary

154

Chapter 8: Why Process Is the Key to Scale

155

Processes Are an Investment

155

Great Interviews

157

Process = Scale

157

Automate the Start

164

Outsource Without Process

165

Process Is Communication

165

Manage the Process

168

Summary

169

Chapter 9: Outsourcing the Scalable Process

170

Take the Day Off

170

Other Options

171

Fiverr.com (http://lp.fiverr.co.uk/)

171

Upwork.com (https://www.upwork.com/)

171

Freelancer.com (https://www.freelancer.com/)

171

Studio Envato (https://studio.envato.com/)

172

99 Designs (https://99designs.co.uk/)

172

OnlineJobs.ph (https://www.onlinejobs.ph/)

172

Google (https://www.google.com)

172

Levels of Outsourcing

177

Summary

184

Chapter 10: Growth Optimization

185

Record, Measure, and Test

185

I’ve Noticed …

198

Just Because I Want You Back

198

We Miss You!

199

We’re Going to Unsubscribe You

199

Secret Gift Inside

199

Are You Just Not Interested?

200

In Three Days, You Won’t Hear from Us

200

Today Is Your Last Day

201

Summary

202

Chapter 11: Profit and Money Management to Scale

203

What Is Your Goal for the Business?

204

What Is the Financial Goal of the Business?

204

What Do You Want to Do Without a Business?

208

The Rule of Thirds for Pricing

209

Rules for Saving

210

Rules for Tax

210

Rules for Profit

210

Summary

212

Chapter 12: Scale and Growth Are Just Around the Corner!

213

Index

215