Scale Up With Nick Bradley

By setting her goals in stone, and by being consistent in her decision-making, Amira Alvarez turned tripled the income for her business, ’The Unstoppable Woman’, and by doing so created a high six-figure annual income for herself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Amira’s initial goal was simply to make money doing something she loved. But as her journey progressed, her purpose took on extra focus, and became clearer and clearer. Amira's purpose is not set in stone. It is an ever-evolving element of her future. It is an iterative thing, and requires constant re-evaluation. Fear defines so many of society’s outcomes and expectations. We constantly look for the worst case scenario in any decision and use that to steer us towards a positive outcome.  What do you want? Where are you going? How do you get there? Which obstacle must you overcome along the way? We can’t achieve success in an instant, but we can often make the journey there a little speedier. You mustn’t let yourself off the hook. Hold yourself to the highest standards, and look for ways to climb. That’s how you get to the next level. "Magical thinking" doesn’t work. You can use your thought to visualise the thing you want, but you’ll never obtain it unless you do the work. After coming to the realisation that she was working too hard and not seeing the returns she wanted, Amira decided to try a different strategy. She obtained significant help, invested in mentorship, and turned her journey completely around. A stretch goal is a crazy goal that should be impossible. But by reaching for it, and by throwing everything she had at it, Amira aimed for a million-dollar turnover and achieved 700k.   BEST MOMENTS ’The way that you do one thing is the way you do everything’ ‘It can be an extraordinarily, delightful, amazing life’ ‘I wanted it all. I wanted to do what I wanted and make a living at it’ ‘Our directive in life is to grow’ ‘A goal is not something you strive towards, but something you come from’ ‘It always starts with opinion you have of yourself'  ‘Take your ego out of it. Getting help is so extraordinary’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Amira Alvarez - https://amiraalvarez.com Amira Alvarez LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiraalvarez/ 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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

If you are in a business trying to grow and scale, some of the key principles in turnaround are applicable to you! When a business is in turnaround everyone is galvanised and focused and that same principle is a superpower for a business, in scale-up. The 2 critical components of a turnaround are cash and time management, listen in to hear how to get them into your business and the vital importance of being present and focused. 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 Business development Key customers – visit all your customers and reinforce your relationships. Bundle up sales to make them attractive and sell more. Lapsed (past) customers - Most small businesses are only serving around 10-20% of the customers they have acquired over the years they have been in business Going back to past customers and re-engaging can be a good way to quickly get business because there is already a relationship in place JV and affiliate partners -  You have value in your customer base and if you can partner with someone who has a product your customers will choose then you can quickly get money coming in. Promotion - You should use free or low-cost media vehicles to promote you, your personal brand and your business. social media is a quick way of getting your message out there. The more leads you have, the more conversations you can have that may lead to a sale. Costs The opportunities to outsource are huge and there are many ways to use the expertise and experience of freelancers with specialist skills to work towards the result you want. Delete all the costs that are not critical to the business and re-negotiate all contracts. Rent is a big cost in any context – Asking for a ‘rent holiday’ could save your business. Review your credit terms – the length of time you take to pay your suppliers, 30 days should be a minimum – it’s about time and cash. Cash strategies You may have excess inventory that could be sold or you can liquidate some debtors through offering a discount for paying in a very short time frame – it’s not about losing money it’s about getting cash into the business. grant funding – potentially free money because you fit the criteria of what a government wants to support,  but it takes some time to apply and secure this type of funding. Cash can be sourced from angel investors, family, friends and crowdfunding. Often HMRC will agree to deferment – because ultimately they want their money but you must agree on an repayment schedule. The cashflow forecast You need to be looking at this at least weekly. You have to understand exactly where your cash is going on a finite and intricate level and you need to know in advance if you have to take massive action to get yourself above the red line.   BEST MOMENTS ‘They are key customers because you have been able to solve a problem for them’ ‘Every business I go into I build some sort of referral program’ ‘The reason I feel confident and congruent in scaling up any business is because I’ve been through the pain of turnaround’   VALUABLE RESOURCES 90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website Nick Bradley LinkedIn   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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick reprises his Entrepreneur In Focus series to talk to Jonathan Rivera, the man who has turned podcasting into an art-form by encouraging those with a message to hone their brand and get their message out there using his business, The Podcast Factory. Sharing stories using the mew technologies available helps us not just to grow own brands, but to help others, and to develop our businesses. 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 It took Jonathan a long time to find his vocation. After trying several different careers, and several different ways of living, he finally conquered his failures, defied the advice he was receiving, and found his place in the world. The only true failure is if you don’t learn from it. Lessons come in all shapes and sizes. Look for the way to grow from any opportunity. In Jonathan’s opinion, the 99% of the least wealthy in the world are slowly conditioned to believe that they should not try to succeed as they will fail. Even in an educational environment, we are told to act in a certain way and develop in a certain way. The disruptors are the ones who break the programming and succeed despite the advice. Vigilance is the only way to guard against bad advice. Study the referrals and listen to what they say and look for congruency. Have they achieved success? Are they qualified to coach or mentor anyone? Everyone with a message needs a Personal Media Platform (PMP) so that they can “PMP” their message. There are many available including podcasting, video, writing. Find your way to magnify your message and plant your flag. Decide what scaling means for you. Does it mean growing the business? Does it mean increasing your revenue? Does it mean being able to lessen your personal workload? Doing your best is not enough. You need to show people that you do the best work. You need to market yourself, You owe it to yourself to get that message out there.  In order to grow, you need to shake things up once in a while. You need structure, routine and consistency, but make sure you temper all that with experimentation and step out of your comfort zone. That’s how you grow   BEST MOMENTS ’I think that it’s because of all my failures that I am here’ ’None of the programming worked’ ‘You only fail if you stop’ ‘A failure is feedback’ ‘People really need to PMP their message’ ‘I’m mounting a campaign and I need you on board!’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Jonathan Rivera LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/producerjonathan/ The Podcast Factory - https://thepodcastfactory.com Daddy’s Working Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddys-working-podcast/id1445708191   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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Learn from Daniel Priestley about the shift from traditional corporate roles to entrepreneurship, the impact of technology on disseminating business messages, and the importance of mindset in achieving business success. Explore the evolution of larger companies becoming entrepreneurial and the significance of creating a high-performance environment for growth.

How does your business rank on the performance scorecard? In this special episode of The Scale Up Your Business Podcast, your host Nick Bradley shares with you the circle of seven business components circle of to help you start-up, scale-up and grow in 2020. If you’re looking to achieve success in 2020, this episode is for you. 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 What is the difference between start-up and scale-up? It’s the ability to lead, lead yourself, lead other people, it's the ability to build a team. It's easy starting a business in a garage with you (and maybe another business partner) but when you start to get success and you start to get customers coming in; you're starting to get some validation of what your product and your business is about. Then it's about working with people scale that. The seven components circle of business or the circle of scale-up. Knowing where you are in your business, having that effective business map and when the world is changing so rapidly, you've got to have a vision. Have the vision, know where you're going and then when you work back from the vision; You're going to have the gap. If you haven't got a plan, you can't navigate any of the challenges that are coming ahead. You've got to have a map that you can adapt to a changing landscape. The next one is marketing. Are you constantly serving and adding value to your customers in a way that psychology is that it's without any expectations? This is because you want to sell your product and service; you want to provide a solution. The more that you show up and you serve, the more you help, the more that you build your brand around that, the more you're never going to have to worry about spending a heap of time and money on marketing because it'll all compound back. Bottom line, sales mastery through systems. Are you experiencing significant growth in your bottom line through the use of systems? If marketing is about making people want to do business with you, you get paid for sales. So you've got to create multiple channels to capture, convert and close sales. If your activity levels are strong, in other words, you're engaging, you're having conversations, you're managing people through a clear pipeline, the sales are going to fall through. You should have metrics around leads, appointments, proposals, and sales. Are you constantly and strategically innovating in the key areas of your business, so it's time to move now into a sort of proposition and product? So this is not necessarily just about technology, but it can be, it can be about your offers, it can be about your operations, it can be about the strategy. You could be throwing money out the window if you're not innovating and improving all the areas and the components of your business. Do you have raving fan customers and culture around this? It doesn't matter again, how big you are. It's an ideology, it's a philosophy, but the biggest mistake that companies make is that they fall in love with their business and all their products, and not with their clients or their customers. You need to know more about your ideal customer than anybody else, what they desire, fear, hope, aspire to be. The number one reason that start-ups fail is due to a lack of a need for their product or their service in the marketplace and the failure to meet the needs of potential clients. Are you tapping into the power of growth through optimization and maximization? Sometimes the biggest growth opportunities don't come from new initiatives, but rather from taking the existing core business that you have, the processes and executing them much more effectively than you are now. The way to think about this is a small incremental improvement made in just a few key areas of your business that can result in literally geometric growth to the business as a whole. One of the easiest ways to get leverage in this area is through technology, through automation, as much as it is also outsourcing the things that you don't critically need in the business. You’re looking at, how can I do this better? How can I do this easier? How can I do this more effectively? How can I do this more efficiently? Financial and legal analysis. As an entrepreneur, it's the thing that people get wrong the most. It all stems here particularly on the governance layer of your business. Do you know where your company is spending its money? It's easy to lose sight of the key measurements that can predict progress or demise. Being able to measure where your business is, where it's going, being able to see the blind spots that could get you into heaps of trouble are the factors that are paramount for any business. It's about understanding how the business is designed to generate cash for you to invest, ultimately, for you to be able to create value at some point, depending on what you want to do with your business. That's either going to line your pockets, it's going to take you closer to freedom, to wealth, living life on your terms, or it's going to allow you to exit the business and get investors or sell the business to investors. BEST MOMENTS ‘Do not build a five-year plan because the world's changing so much, when you're getting into planning, you can go up to three years because it kind of gives you something to work with' ‘It’s all about what your customers would say about you to other people’ ‘If you've got a great reputation, then you're going to have many, many more inbound inquiries’ ‘If you want a business that's scaling and one that's going to be sustainable in the future, you've got to improve its marketing strategies’ ‘Sales are the systems that are put in place that allow you to allow the conversion to happen, it's an expected outcome’ 'Strategy is the greatest determining factor in the success of any sort of Innovation Initiative' ‘Problems come first solutions come second’ ‘The second highest cause of business failure is due to cash flow’ ‘If you start to have some basic frameworks and basic foundations in place, then you're going to be able to be significantly more successful in what you're trying to achieve’ `It's always good just to have a few frameworks, something to be able to at least, measure where you are today so you know where you want to go’ ‘Be grateful, be brave, have faith and show up’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Nick’s Twitter Scale Up Your Business Podcast 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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Welcome to 2020, and to a brand new series of Scale Up Your Business! After receiving a multitude of feedback about what you’d like to hear, Nick has decided to present an entirely new series surrounding the actual process of scaling your business, presented in an innovative and practical way; by actually allowing you, the listener, to sit in on a series of live business mentoring sessions between Nick and his clients. 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 Women are often far too busy taking care of everyone else to take care of themselves properly. This can lead to guilt, which can be hard to overcome. Sherry’s program includes ways to escape this feeling, while boosting confidence and physical wellbeing. Sherry’s business model is based around pillars of health, and provides online coaching, exercise sessions, counselling and guidance to those with a membership. Her focus now is on finding leads; approximately eight new signups per day. The price point has been crucial to the success of both the business and the results attained by clients. The more that people invest, the more that they want to succeed. It’s about less is more. It's about focus. Sometimes it’s not that people are not doing the right things in their business, it’s that they’re trying to do too much. Start with a vision, then be clear on what you can achieve in the next twelve months. Break these goals down into achievable sections, each with ninety-day periods. Each section needs a strategy, but it’s important not to have too many strategies at once, or this can lead to overwhelm. By providing a clear pathway through your services for clients, you can utilise the fan base to generate more leads. It’s all about the sequencing of how you introduce clients; it’s about providing that clear pathway through, and establishing your personal brand. It’s very important that people get to know you as the face the business. It’s also important to do your research and to tailor your mission statement and personal brand to the things that people want to hear about and experience. Your personal brand should be centred around the things you stand for. This will then allow you have multiple businesses that fit under the values and beliefs that you stand for. Nick uses Richard Branson as an example.    BEST MOMENTS ‘Your health is non-negotiable’ ‘Your body is a machine that works for you. It’s been there every single day of your life’ ‘A healthy mind exists in a healthy body’ ‘Your mission behind this stuff is massive, huge, powerful’ ’Strategies are simply choices’ ‘What does Sherry Thacker stand for?'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Sherry Thacker - https://www.sherrythacker.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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

For this very special fiftieth edition of Scale Up Your Business, Nick has a treat for you. A very special guest, the founder of Reboot.io, bestselling author and coach, Jerry Colonna, whose approach to business, leadership and living in an impactful way, are lessons that we should all take to our hearts. 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 You need to slow down to speed up. Learn to give yourself some time to reflect. If you do that, you’ll get to where you want to be much faster in business and in life. Jerry’s work with other people really focusses on the intersection between who they are and what they do. By analysing their fears, Jerry is able to provoke meaningful conversation about their goals and aspirations. Human struggles are real and universal. Challenges are primal and affect people in all walks of life. Suffering is common, and we do not discuss them enough, which leads to isolation. For those facing indecision or socialised indifference, Jerry recommends reaching out to people, and nourishing ourselves spiritually upon the works of others. Books are a spiritual companion at these times. Be grateful, even for the difficulties you have. Don’t simply reflect and show gratitude for the positive times. Be grateful for it all. Every moment, good or bad, created the person that you became. When we begin 2020, it’s worth pausing to ask how we are doing. Planning for the future is essential, but remember what the preceding year has done, and what it has brought us. How did 2019 affect us? A leader is someone who holds power and agency over themselves and others, or both, and effectively manages the programming and subroutines that exist within them, to minimise the negative implications of what they have carried since childhood. Everyone can be a leader, regardless of position.   BEST MOMENTS  ’Slow down to speed up. Learn to stand still’ ‘What we really do is smuggle in consciousness’ ‘Heartbreak leads to resiliency, which leads to equanimity’  ‘Your story is my story’ ‘A good book is a spiritual companion’ ‘How do you want to spend your minutes?’ ‘Everyone can be a leader'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Reboot - www.reboot.io Reboot: Leadership And The Art Of Growing Up - Jerry Colonna - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reboot-Leadership-Art-Growing-Up-ebook/dp/B0796SNDSK Jerry Colonna Twitter - https://twitter.com/@jerrycolonna 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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Carlyle Jenkins began his career as a sports chiropractor working with Olympians and world champions and now helps business leaders on their journey to ultimate wellness. He combines cutting edge functional health science and ancestral principles to craft action plans that make a difference, taking the individual to ultimate wellness, helping leaders to do more and be more.  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 begin to work with someone our mantra is ‘test, don’t guess’ we like to know exactly what the threatening inputs are for that person  When we have completed testing we can say exactly what an individual should be putting into their bodies.  Alignment  Every 24 cycle we have a rhythm that our body is trying to adhere too.  When we are in our sympathetic cycle our bodies are putting out energy and when the sun goes down our parasympathetic system has more influence and our bodies should be trying to recharge through sleep.  Nutrition  Dr Valter Longo has completed research showing that at a cellular level that you can trigger 3 key healing aspects of life through nutrition.  Fat instead of sugar as fuel - He has specifically looked at calorie restriction to trigger the use of fat instead of sugar for fuel, this is known as being fat adapted.  If a body is fat adapted and the substrate for energy is fat cancer cells can’t grow, it is sugar that feeds cancer cells and helps them grow.  Autophagy - a process where the body cleans out damaged cells.  If you take away some of the body’s fuel it will look for stuff it can use and will begin by reclaiming damaged, broken and dangerous cells. It’s a really important part of healing chronic disease.  Stem cells upregulating  - nutrition can be a way of stimulating stem cells to upregulate.    Meditation  This is the one thing that influences peoples mental and physical health. It’s a way to feel the body and to get in touch with it, the more attuned you are to your body the easier it is to recognise what it needs.  Connecting with the physical world is vital and however you meditate, make sure you incorporate it into your routine.  Keys to success  Alignment  Align what your physical body needs to do so that your long-term vision can be realised.  You need to have a physical vision to match your business vision.  Eating  Stop eating food, how much can you not eat and still perform? Pick one day of the week to start then build upon it.  When you have reached 5 consecutive days of fasting for 16 hours across the day then your body will begin to access its supply of fat.  Sleep  In the 24 hour cycle  the body uses its energy then replenishes it through sleep. The quality of sleep is affected by both alcohol and screen time. If you don’t get the recharge over-night you are programmed to seek carbohydrates when you wake and a vicious circle of sugar and carbohydrate consumption is triggered.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘You can’t argue with 66,000 generations’  ‘Being fat adapted is winning on multiple levels’  ‘We have this consistent drip of high energy manufactured foods; The fasting is just getting back to what we are designed to do’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Prohab Performance website  Dr Valter Longo website  Carlyle Jenkins website    Resilience Test: https://indicator.prohabperformance.com/  Code: SUYB20   Offer: Complimentary call with me once test completed to talk health and resilience strategy for 2020.     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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, start and grow a great business first and when you make the decision to sell your business start early and become more prolific and be prepared, understanding you are not going to be able to do it alone you need to surround yourself with good people.  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  You have to be cautious and controlled when you are selling your business o you can navigate the timing so you can leverage the best opportunity for you.  You may have created something and it’s now time for someone take it to another place.  Where can you sell a business - look for business for sale websites, often a sale will come from someone you know, a competitor or a supplier looking to extend their value chain.  A broker has expertise in how you can position yourself and advertise your business  You must leverage social media – go out and tell the story of your business and state you are looking for investors then people will come and have a conversation.  Ensure you have NDA’s in place when you are communicating with potential buyers  Ask the right questions to make sure they are serious Why do they want your business what can they add?  It’s not about people showing you how much money they have up front.  If you have someone with the right strategic outlook there are ways of structuring a deal without money upfront.  Don’t close down any opportunities, the best deal could be the one structured in an unorthodox way rather than just a cash or money deal.  Create a detailed information memorandum – the quality of the IM created in a succinct way is one of the most important things to have in terms of selling your business.  It’s a mini strategy document and it can influence the psychology of the person looking to buy.  5 biggest mistakes when selling   Not planning ahead or waiting too long to sell  Not finding the right person to represent your business  Thinking you don’t have to promote or market yourself  Asking too much or too little for your business  Selling the business to the wrong person  When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, get focused, start and grow a great business first.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I’m always looking for the 1+1 =3’  ‘Conversations can turn in ‘why don’t we buy your business’  ‘I’ve bought a few in my time and I’ve sold a few in my time’  ‘You are better off giving up a bit of margin to get the best price and get it done in the  most structured and most successful way’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     Are you looking for a community of like-minded people who will support your goals and level you up? M1 is a whole life leadership mastermind with proven results in increasing net worth and passive income, and improving relationships, health & lifestyle - so that you can live life on your terms. If you're a high-achieving individual, with big goals and no excuses, and you want a place to belong where you can go on epic adventures around the world, be surrounded by people who live life big, and you want the accountability to take massive action in your life, then check it out at the M1 Mastermind by visiting www.rockthomas.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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week we’re going into purpose and mission, areas that are crucial to any business in going above and beyond the financial gain aspect.  Entrepreneurs tend to strike out on their own because they want choice, freedom and financial independence, but if you’re thinking bigger, then the success you find will be far greater. 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  There are four steps in being successful in business: Psychology Skill-set Strategy Systems After being financially decimated by the property crash, Gerald was forced to ask himself the important questions: what is it that he was called to do on this earth? What really lit him up? And how could he make money while living his purpose? The amount of money that you have, the relationships your experience, your physicality; all these things link back to your identity, or inner blueprint you have. You can’t outperform the mentality your brain is comfortable with. Gerald's work has been focussed on how to adjust this self-image, so that we can perform at a higher level. The transformational steps Gerald uses to enable a higher level of attainment: Awareness - Figure out what you’ve created and how. What are your limiting beliefs? Accountability - You cannot create change in your life if you experience life as a victim. Sovereignty - Taking ownership of your life. Action - taking control and aligning these factors to achieve a higher state of belief. Acceleration - Once you’re on the right path, accelerate your growth. A practice Gerald recommends is to find some space, take a moment and relax into the most powerless and weak version of yourself; depressed and overwhelmed. Remain in this state for a while.  Recognise that the way you feel physically at this moment is affecting your emotional state. Concentrate on how you are breathing. Examine your focus levels. What are the images and thoughts in your mind? What are the beliefs you currently have? These physiological traits are your personal recipe for depression and a lack of self-belief. By countering each of them, you can lift yourself from this state when you need to.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If you find purpose in what you’re doing, you tend to be more successful’ ‘I didn’t understand why I knew what to do, but I couldn’t get myself to do what I knew’ ’The thing I love most is the deep inner work of transformation’ ‘I’m always looking for more ways to upgrade my operating system’ ‘You can never outperform your self-image’ ‘You cannot be powerful if you believe at any level that are not responsible for your results’ ‘Our physiology leads our experience'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Gerald Rogers - https://geraldrogers.com mentoring@prosperitysummit.com legendaryseminar.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 METHOD Nick’s Facebook page: https://scaleup.vip/FB  Nick’s LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI  Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG  Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/