Profitable Growth: How to Maintain Profitability During Periods of Growth
As your agency expands, it can be hard to maintain profitable growth. You’ll travel the U-curve. Come out the other end, and your growth is limited only by your imagination.
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Could running your firm be light and easy?
On Tuesday, we talked about making work more fun by eliminating work that you don’t enjoy. On Thursday, we talked about how my happiest clients are the ones who have systematically moved routine work and client work off of their plates to free up time to think, plan, and move their businesses forward. Does this…
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What do my happiest clients have in common?
Every Friday, I step back and look at all of my active clients and ask myself the question, “How’s it going with this client? How can I serve them this week?” As I was doing this last week, I noticed a trend, and it surprised me! The clients that are the happiest with their work,…
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What if work was fun?
I don’t mean a little bit fun. Like fun when something great happens or when you have a breakthrough. I mean fun all the time. What if work wasn’t hard, or stressful, or overwhelming, or burdensome. What if it was as much fun as playing a game? What would have to happen to make that…
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What I wish I’d known about parenting and leading a business (That help me support working parents.)
I was cleaning up the kitchen one night after everyone was asleep. I had made quite a mess cooking that night (as is my habit), and so by the time I was drying the last pot, I was a little bleary-eyed. So when smoke rose out of one of the pots I was drying, it…
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Where should your priorities be as the leader of your agency?
“It’s about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate” – Marissa Mayer You want your agency to grow. You also want it to be a great place to work, where smart, creative people thrive and do great work. You might also be one of…
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How to make new business decisions you won’t regret.
Last week I talked about spending more time thinking so that we can make better decisions. One of the categories of decisions that I see the least thinking about is new business decisions. When someone wants to talk to us about starting a new project, there is no pause – just a pavlovian response, “When…
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Does success make you happy?
I spent most of my life being very goal-oriented. In fact, one of my internal “rules for life” was, “You can rest when all your work is done.” When I get 5 clients… When I can carry 10 clients… When I build my team… When I earn $XXX, 000… That’s when I can relax. That’s…
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How to make better decisions and not feel so overwhelmed.
Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it. Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy. ~ Shane Parris One thing I hear from almost every leader I talk to is that they feel…
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What’s your plan for summer?
Summer is typically a time when business slows down a bit. Sure, June is usually solid, but July may feel a little slow before things just come to a standstill in August as all the decision-makers are on vacation! Will 2021 be any different? There are a lot of reasons to think that 2021 will…