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Want to grow your business, but are not very clear about how to do it?

Do you remember why you went into business in the first place?

• You had a passion for what you do and you wanted freedom to be master of your own destiny
• to earn a good living
• to be able to work the hours you wanted to
• less stress than you had before

How many of the above have you ticked as reasons why you set up your business?

Now, looking at the last four how many of them are actually true? Are any of them not happening because it’s just you and you don’t know how to get your business beyond where you are?

In recent months I’ve been trying to work on how to help businesses get through this block to help them grow. My research has lead me to two experts who come at the issue from different angles, but share overlapping solutions that I’d like to share and which may help.

The first is Michael Gerber and his book – The E-Myth Revisited

It’s an excellent book for small businesses looking to grow and I highly recommend it.

And the other is Daniel Priestley of The Key Person of Influence organisation. He’s written a number of books on business growth and this one is worth a read – Key Person of Influence by Daniel Priestley.

The difficulties of growing a business

Michael Gerber states that whilst an individual understands the technical work of their business, it’s a myth that they can successfully run a business.

As a result and as Daniel Priestley highlights – 70% of small business owners get stuck in the ‘struggle zone’ where they never get beyond being the sole owner. And its defining characteristics are that the owner has little money or low revenue, next to no time and has very high levels of stress.

Are you nodding your head at this moment and agreeing?

Then why not read my full article which can be found here.