The 5 keys to growing your business & my entrepreneurial journey
Today, I’m sharing The 5 keys to growing your business as a service provider & a bit more behind the scenes than normal.
My real journey in entrepreneurship.
And by service provider, I mean I’m talking coaches, healers, marketers, ghost writers, interior designers, gardeners… these 5 keys are for YOU!
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For the last 6 years, I’ve been managing online program launches for spiritual online businesses.
But only for the last 3 years would I say I’ve run a successful business.
You may be thinking, “Well Sam - your income has improved by just getting better at your craft!”
But no…
While my skills and services & offers have obviously gotten better over time, it doesn’t compare to the revenue leaps I’ve made by incorporating the 5 keys I’m going through today.
Improving your skills are only a fraction of the picture of having a successful & profitable business in this day & age with our global economy fueled by the internet.
For years, I made around $1000/mo manifesting odd situations that allowed that to actually be doable - like free rent & food.
I inched my way up to living on $2500/month for years living in California & Hawaii by being really good at being frugal.
At this time, I was really dealing with my trauma around the rug being pulled out from under me. I wanted to be able to live on nothing because I was terrified of everything being taken away from me.
And I didn’t have anyone else supporting me during this time. I didn’t have a spouse or parent supplementing my income.
Even now that I’m married, I’ve always been the breadwinner.
So for a long time I was making close to minimum wage.
But my truth was that I would rather get paid significantly less than what my degree afforded me then to do work that I thought wasn’t changing the world.
During these first 5 years of business, I inched from making $1,000 to $2,500.
It was when my income shifted from $2500 to $3500/month that I felt a huge different.
That was my threshold. What I needed to bring in to be making end’s meet and not be scraping by.
Your threshold could be double or triple this, but for me, getting up to bringing in $3500/month was the catalyst to realizing I could make way way more.
It was finally “more than enough” for me.
Because I lived frugally, it was the point in which I could think about saving or having some extra money on the side for fun.
In just a few months after that, I tripled that.
And over the next 2 years it exponentially grew.
My business has now sustained over 10X that every month for over a year.
I’ve created consistent growth with even expenses.
The 5 keys I’m about to outline led to that exponential growth.
I KNOW that if I had known these & worked on them at the beginning of my journey, I would’ve grown my business in 2-3 years instead of 10.
Here are the keys:
I’m a business owner not a freelancer
Moving away from hourly pricing
Getting realllly comfortable with sales calls
Focusing on mindset
Finding a cyclic way to set goals and plans to hit those goals & then evaluate how it went
Seriously. That’s it.
I’m diving in WAY deeper on this week’s podcast, so give it a listen if you haven’t yet.
And here are some powerful prompts to find areas that can shift in your business to transform YOUR journey for the way-better.
Go back through each of these to see what your sticking point is:
Journaling Prompts
Are you attaching your work and your value to your time?
Do you consider yourself a service provider, like a marketer or coach or freelancer, instead of realizing that you own a full business?
Have you worked on your sales skills, so that your sales calls or webinars consistently turn into clients and customers?
Have you done mindset work, or do you think you're too smart or too spiritually evolved for that?
Do you have a system for setting sales goals every month and making plans to hit those?
I’ve been keeping a secret from you…
We’ve been working behind the scenes to create a program that teaches the practical steps and shifts I made to go from scraping by into overflow in my business.
This is exactly what I did to get to $10,000 a month and beyond.
From having to count every penny and budget like a mad woman…
… to be able to hire my first virtual assistant and start saving for retirement with extra to spare.
And eventually having people work full time for me and being able to pay for premium support & mentoring.
ALL of that and a whole lot more is available to you in Monetize Your Magic.
So here’s my question for you: What would you do if you made an extra $500 this month?
What about if you doubled what you're making right now? What would you spend it on?
Maybe saving for retirement doesn’t sound sexy, but traveling to Bali for two weeks does. Or adding it to your grocery budget so you can buy that fancy $15 loaf of farmer’s market bread.
Whatever it is, I’m here to tell you: all of that is available to you NOW. Not in 2 years or 5 years.
Like I said – it’s not how long I was in business that allowed me to bring in what I bring in now.
It’s learning the key skills I outlined above, and mastering what I teach in Monetize Your Magic.
Monetize Your Magic is an 8 week program to teach you everything you need to get fully booked & reach financial stability.
You’ll get 4 bi-weekly live coaching calls with me in addition to the actual curriculum. And it is supported with planetary magic with Anna Marback (she'll be on the podcast next week to talk about planetary magic).
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