Scale Up With Nick Bradley

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks about the importance of delegation, and why effective use of this tool will enable you to save time and focus upon the tasks to which you are better suited. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  As you scale your business, it becomes critical that we say no to opportunities from time to time. As we grow, more people want a piece of you. Therefore, delegation becomes crucial. If you want to break through the ceiling towards where you want to go, you need to learn to delegate, and in turn, elevate yourself. Define the absolute maximum number of hours you wish to put into the business each week, and still remain balanced. We must seek to be better at the things we're strong in, and not spend time trying to get better at the things in which we're weak. Double down on your strengths, and delegate your weaknesses. BEST MOMENTS 'You have to understand the things that you do, and the things you're going to get others to do' 'Smart people say yes a lot. But really smart people say no' 'There are times when we reach elements of balance. But there are times when you have to go all in' 'Make sure you are 100% intentional with how you're spending your time' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks         ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to business accelerator, best-selling author and creator of 'The Generosity Culture', April Shprintz, about why the culture of generosity is so important to organisations, and how best to implement it within your workforce. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The generosity culture is centred around giving someone your time, your experience, your focus. It must be given without expectation. Some people have a natural desire to create an impact due to their innate desire to create positive change and impact. Many organisations have cultures driven by the sales team. Therefore, this is the best place to start when trying to implement a new thesis. A toxic or negative environment can sometimes be the result of a single person whose discontent spreads slowly and surely. Leaders must be aware of these counterintuitive forces which work against a positive culture. BEST MOMENTS 'How fast can we help people scale, by using those principles?' 'I want you to give something so much more valuable - your time' 'It's almost like farming, where you plant seeds without knowing what will pop up' 'Who you fire tends to matter more than who you hire'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks         April Shprintz LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilshprintz/ April Shprintz Twitter - https://twitter.com/AprilShprintz Driven outcomes – www.drivenoutcomes.com Standing O! Salute (Amazon) ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

To mark the incredible milestone of 150 episodes of Scale up Your Business, Nick has decided to present a specially-curated selection of some of the show's big-hitters - a retrospective featuring ten amazing moments from the episodes that Nick considers to be his personal favourites. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When we put everything we can into a task will exponentially increase the proceeds of that task. Remember that how we do anything is how you do everything. In times like these, when every moment is a challenge, the way in which we show up is more critical than ever. The lost art of sales is in talking to a buyer, and persuading them to want what you have without seeing the sales process happening. Scaling is all about data and mathematics. In every business, the leader and founder chooses the most important data point upon which to focus. We then produce the formula that gives the best result for that data point. BEST MOMENTS 'Marketing today is about getting your brand out there in as many channels as possible' 'If you want to become an entrepreneur, it is the best time in history to do that' 'Showing someone that you're an expert provides certainty' 'For me scaling is all math' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to author, growth specialist, and architect of The Revenue Growth Company, who have helped thousands of CEOs and business owners around the world to double and triple their sales and profits using existing resources. Kent discusses the importance of structure when it comes to building and designing a highly-profitable company, and the four phases that every business needs to go through when it comes to growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People often want to become rich, but the concept itself has been hijacked. People now feel a sense of guilt for wanting to be wealthy, when this should not be the case. Generating wealth is the art of making money without spending money. It's about putting the tools and resources you have at hand to better use. Think about what you are doing for your people, and how you are making the world better. This is truly the legacy that will last, even when we're no longer around. Once we have a product, the temptation is to jump straight into sales and marketing. This turns the fledgling product into a spend, and not an investment. BEST MOMENTS 'There is no greater profit-shredder in a company than sales and marketing' 'In Texas we call them the "Thousand Dollar Millionaire"' 'Systems combined with the right people and the right seats is the stuff that's going to get you to where you want to be' 'You have to learn how to create wealth in your business. You have to learn how to make money without spending money' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        The Revenue Growth Company - https://revenuegrowthcompany.com/author/kent-billingsley/ Kent Billingsley Twitter - https://twitter.com/KentBillingsley Ken Billingsley LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kent-billingsley-6b02a7/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks you through Clubhouse, the social media sensation currently taking over the world, and how you can use it to positively impact your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The organic growth in Clubhouse right now is huge. It doesn't matter which area you're interested in, there are incredible opportunities to be had. In business the fundamentals you need to master are skill-set, the right mind-set, the ability to connect, and timing. Technology can never replace the face-to-face interaction of business, but it certainly isn't worse. In this world right now, the ability to connect and collaborate remotely is a gift. There are all kinds of niches and topics available for you to focus upon in Clubhouse, and communities are springing up constantly, featuring detailed, insightful conversations built around them all, and including some world-class experts. BEST MOMENTS 'Clubhouse is dominating things at the moment' 'Who you meet and collaborate with has a huge impact on what you create' 'These people may have been out of your reach. Now they're just a click away' 'Give value first, and ask for something later' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Chat With Titans is a brand new series from Scale Up Your Business, in which Nick interviews some of the most amazing and successful people in the world right now, focussing on those who are effecting lasting, positive change in the world. In the first episode, Nick talks to Gary Henderson, a digital marketing specialist, and one of the true innovators on the world's most exciting social media platform, Clubhouse. Gary talks to Nick about the ways in which he has engaged with such a large audience so swiftly, and some of the philosophies he adheres to. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we accept a position, either in a company, or for a client, we are accepting a role. In this way, we become a role-player, and it is our responsibility to perform in that role to the best of our ability. Growing large audiences on social media is a great thing, but there is far more value in a more focussed audience, even if it is smaller. Mastermind solutions and events are an incredible way of growing and developing, but with the world we live in, there needs to be a better way of supplying and attending them. If modern methods of communication, including social media, are embraced and used effectively, the results can be exceptional. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a role-player, and I knew my role' 'I was here to work - I was here to build my personal brand' 'I want to be around some pretty epic people' 'It's been exceptional in terms of the ability to connect' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        Gary Club - https://www.gary.club/ All The Way Up Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1495712728 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to Lance Graulich, the founder and CEO of ION Franchising, the industry-leading franchise consultancy and development group, about the ways in which you can turn your business into a franchise, and dynamically increase your reach and your wealth as a result, and how running a franchise may suit your business goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Franchises are an attractive opportunity for potential business owners, as many of the initial headaches have already been solved, such as branding and marketing. Franchising is the legal relationship that allows you to use a brand and name in order to generate wealth. In franchising, there has to be a reasonable level of control in how this relationship works. The ways in which we can add our own creativity is in the human side of the business - in improving service and how our staff show up. This can make all the difference, and is also what sets one franchise apart from another. A franchise owner is someone who wishes to own and operate a business, but who does not necessarily have the right skill-set or mind-set in order to found a business. In this way, anyone can operate a company. BEST MOMENTS 'The average person does not have a burning desire to create a business in particular' 'Where you can get creative is in the human resources side of things' 'Entrepreneurship is not just about start-up' 'Find the thing you love doing, and you'll never work a day in your life' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ION Franchising - https://ionfranchising.com Lance Graulich LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-g-68b304118/ Lance Graulich @ Inspired Insider - https://www.inspiredinsider.com/lance-graulich-interview/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick discusses innovation, and how to engender a culture that can grow, develop and maintain innovation in your organisation. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many believe the thing they create at the outset of their business journey will be there forever. But this is not the case. You must embrace the fact that dynamic thinking and ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation. Always be open to listening to others. Look for multiple ways to solve problems and create solutions. Never believe that there is only just one way. Think creatively and allow collaboration. Marketing is all about experimentation. It's not about following a single path. It's about testing and trialling until you get the result, and once you get there, you double down on the things that work. BEST MOMENTS 'Make sure your culture allows people to solve and offer ideas' 'Ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation' 'You have to think about reframing the problem' 'You either kill it, you move forward, or you tweak it to get it to something that can work for you' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick meets DJ Irie, one of the most prolific DJs currently working in the world today, for a discussion centring around how to turn your passion into a business, and that business into an eventual empire. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A burning desire to follow your passions all the way to the end is never an easy one. It requires risk and sacrifice, but the rewards are that much higher. Many give up on their dreams through fear, or because they think the road is too difficult. The key to success is to build self-belief. We need to focus on what is important - the reason why we strive to turn our passions into our life's pursuit. Money is never enough of a reason. Happiness is a far more determining factor. Every day presents a new opportunity for success. We never know what is coming or who is in our audience, so make sure you show up as your best self. BEST MOMENTS 'The detail matters' 'I was just a crazy, energetic kid that loved some music!' 'One of the biggest things was that I didn't care about the money' 'I'm not going to let anyone define me or put me in a box, because I know I'm worth more than that' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       DJ Irie - http://djirie.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about the difficulties that some business owners face in terms of equalising the mind-set between employer and employee, and how you can best help your people to realise, and align with, your vision and goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Your people will, in general, view their role in your organisation as a job. This means they are less likely to want to take on risk, but it also means they fail to sometimes view the upside of what risk can produce. Many who join a small business are joining because they believe in the mission, and they want to be part of its success. Communicating your vision should also include an explanation of what that vision means for your team. Tell them what is in it for them. Honesty is key to gaining the trust required to invigorate your people. If things go well, tell people. If things aren't going well, have the courage to communicate that. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to start putting things in place that will allow or foster that culture' 'You as a leader have to have a really strong vision' 'Be very open, honest, and vulnerable' 'You start to bring people in who understand that culture and awareness of what you're doing' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       Tony Robbins Disc Assessment - https://www.tonyrobbins.com/disc/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/