Online services, courses, memberships, and coaching programs offer a fantastic avenue to scale businesses for established entrepreneurs. But the way you structure your suite of online offers can either boost or break your business. In this article, we will delve into the insights shared by April Beach on her Strategic Business Design Method™ and how it can help design your company to achieve long-term lifestyle and profit goals. This method warns against the risk of launching any program outside this strategic framework.

Step 1: Start with the End in Mind

The first step is to envision the future of your business. Consider what your average workday, week, or month would look like. Are you working directly with clients? Are you operating remotely or from a traditional office space? Who are your primary contacts? What non-work-related activities do you engage in? By answering these questions, you can build your own custom business model that aligns with your personal and...

It’s hard to become known when you’re head down in your work. You’re busy taking care of your clients, not telling everyone about the work you’re doing. You just do the work, and hope people will tell their friends about your awesomeness. 

But sometimes that's not enough, and to move our business on and more importantly up, we have to move into a 'Becoming known' strategy.

Here are 3 questions to get you started;

1. What do you want to be known for?
2. Why? What's the strategy?
3. Who do you need to be known to?

What do you want to be known for?

What does the next level of your business look like? and what is your role? are you wanting to move into a CEO role or are you wanting to pivot into a different area?  

Why? What is the strategy?

What are we trying to accomplish?  what changes do you want to make in your role or within your systems and strategies?  Are you wanting to make a new offer and be known for this new thing?

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We were extremely lucky to chat with Lorraine Dallmeier about her journey into entrepreneurship and her six steps to building an online empire without using paid ads.

An award-winning CEO of formula Botanica, the organic cosmetic formulation, and business school, which has trained over 13,000 organic cosmetic formulators and ND beauty entrepreneurs in 177 countries.

She was voted the most influential person in natural beauty for 2020 and was awarded the digital achiever of the year for the cosmetics industry by Google.

Lorraine, can you give everybody an introduction, share who you are, how you started out, and explain this amazing online empire that you have built?

I'm Lorraine. I run formula Botanica, I'm a biologist, I'm a chartered environmentalist and I am on a mission to teach the world to formulate.

I run formula Botanica, the online organic cosmetic formulation school, training people how to make their own natural skincare and haircare using botanical ingredients.

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In podcast episode number 231, April chatted with Theresa Loe, founder of streamlinedandscaled.com and a leadership and business coach for overworked entrepreneurs. She helps business owners streamline their operations and build self-managed teams so they can finally get their time back and scale with ease.

Theresa chatted with April and offered advice to help you get over the issues that may be stopping you from scaling and growing your business to the next level; how to get over your fear of hiring people.

So first of all, let's talk about why this is even a fear. What is the deal? What is the matter with us?

I have struggled with management over the years. It's not my strength. I have had to work very hard to learn, to become a better leader and manager and delegator.

As entrepreneurs we have all these ideas in our head and we think it's so much easier or it's so much faster if we just do it ourselves, but I'm going to tell you that, and I learned this the hard...

As we approach the end of the year many businesses aim to refocus in order to make their end of year goals. In our last article, I spoke about refocusing your business by resetting aspects such as your offer, your marketing, and lead generation systems as well as your internal systems. If you haven't read that, 6 Key Areas to Reset and Refocus Your Business This Fall, Part 1 head on over for full details before I go over the remaining tips.

These reaming tips will be looking more at you, the business owner. Now you may be wondering why we need to have a look at you. The answer is simple. You and other aspects of your life ultimately affect your business; therefore, it is equally important to analyze those as well. As the owner of the business, your mind, your connections, and your home and office life are key components to your success.

Refocus Your Mind

Without the right mindset, you won't be able to achieve your goals. According to Tony Robbins, your business...

COVID-19 (Corona) is threatening America and our friends across the world. It's starting to wreak havoc on supply chains, travel and food stores.... and this can be scary. But let's look for the opportunities in the chaos, and business growth in the trials.

You may be feeling a little unsure and uneasy as to how to navigate all of this. Rightfully so. Maybe you're questioning how to grow at a time like this, if growth is even possible, or how to simply continue with your current momentum. 

And as a business owner, you may be forced to operate a bit differently, but all of this has the potential to lead to a bigger bottom line.

You could actually be forced to tap into some big-time scaling opportunities, even if you have been reluctant to previously or simply hadn't planned to under these certain circumstances.

Incorporate New Tactics in Your Local Business

So how exactly do you continue with business as usual if you own a local business that...