
Creator's MBA: Marketing Tips for Digital Product Entrepreneurs 247: The One Stage That’s Slowing Down Your Entire Business
Nov 17, 2025
Feeling like your business is stuck despite doing everything right? Discover why effort alone isn't enough. Learn about the five interconnected stages of a growth flywheel and how one weak area can slow everything down. Avoid common mistakes of fixing the wrong parts and identify your true bottleneck. Focus on just one or two impactful changes per quarter for quicker results. Plus, try a simple diagnostic tool to pinpoint what's blocking your growth and receive personalized insights to get your business moving again!
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Disconnected Pieces Slow Growth
- Your business can feel stuck even when you're doing all the right things because the pieces aren't connected.
- Disconnected stages make conversions unpredictable and traffic fail to turn into revenue.
The Five Interconnected Stages
- The Creator's Growth Flywheel contains five interconnected stages: attract, engage, nurture, retain, advocacy.
- A weakness in any one stage slows the entire flywheel and overall growth.
One Bottleneck Carries The Load
- Fixing random problems won't help if you ignore the real bottleneck in your system.
- The true issue is often one weak stage carrying too much weight and dragging everything else down.
