Small Business Scaling

[robertbanking]

Hello you wonderful people, hope you had a great start to the week.

I have for several years ran a business on my own, starting blogs and doing online marketing. I even experimented doing some buying from china and re-selling on eBay and made a small profit. I have retained profits but struggle to know what i can do to scale things. I really want to try work less and have more time for myself, like going to the gym etc. Can anyone kindly point me in the direction or steps i need to take to scale the business please, so i can work less and try automate things as much as possible? I am stuck at an impasse really on what i need to do to start growing and freeing up my time.

Many thanks again for any help you can give. Take care and have a lovely week. Thanks again for your kindness.

 

[japancool]

Stop treating it as a hobby and take it seriously. Write a business plan, set targets and work out what you need to do to achieve those targets.

 

[simon field]

Hello you wonderful people, hope you had a great start to the week.

I have for several years ran a business on my own, starting blogs and doing online marketing. I even experimented doing some buying from china and re-selling on eBay and made a small profit. I have retained profits but struggle to know what i can do to scale things. I really want to try work less and have more time for myself, like going to the gym etc. Can anyone kindly point me in the direction or steps i need to take to scale the business please, so i can work less and try automate things as much as possible? I am stuck at an impasse really on what i need to do to start growing and freeing up my time.

Many thanks again for any help you can give. Take care and have a lovely week. Thanks again for your kindness.

Pay someone else to do the trivial, easy stuff whilst you do what you’re good at (marketing?).

If you’re good at marketing, the work will come.

 

[Mark T Jones]

Both of the above

Plus, focus on doing one thing well, rather than dabbling in several things.

 

[robertbanking]

Thanks so much folks, very helpful indeed. I was just stuck with my thought patterns and needed some guidance. Stop treating it as a hobby, pay someone to do the trivial stuff and stop dabbling in several things. Very good advice, thanks again.

 

[Financial-Modeller]

Think like the owner of the business that you aspire to have, not the business you currently have.

If you prefer, think like a bigger business.

 

[AlexDoll]

To scale your business, you definitely need money and new technology with which to keep track and monitor.
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[diorabinx]

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[motionvideosuk]

Stop treating it as a hobby and take it seriously. Write a business plan, set targets and work out what you need to do to achieve those targets.

That’s what I thought.

Stop treating it as a hobby and take it seriously. Write a business plan, set targets and work out what you need to do to achieve those targets.

My thought’s exactly. I’d have been interested and looked at the profile of someone who did marketing, but not one that wanted to outsource my work to China so they could spend their time at the gym.

 

[japancool]

I’d have been interested and looked at the profile of someone who did marketing, but not one that wanted to outsource my work to China so they could spend their time at the gym.

Not entirely sure what that's got to do with what I said though.

 

[motionvideosuk]

Not entirely sure what that's got to do with what I said though.

Not entirely sure what that's got to do with what I said though.

I guess after reading the post I thought “he doesn’t sound serious about growing his business, more like he wants to do nothing and get paid for it” and that’s how I interpreted your reply.

Apologies, I’m not trying to annoy people, I’m new, I’ll leave you to it and find another post where my input can add more value rather than stupid comments

 

[sandcress]

I agree with the above.

If you want to scale up your business, in effect have a bigger business, you need to employ someone to help you expand the business. It's really easy to get overwhelmed in business and scaling up a business is a detailed process.

When we help businesses like you to scale up, we often find that business owners have a better work/ life balance and their productivity goes up as a result of hiring someone else for the 'trivial' stuff.

It sounds like you need someone to align the dots for you.