Scale Up With Nick Bradley

If you think you’re ready to step it up to the next level, then it’s time to learn how to play the game right!  In this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick introduces you to the 5 key components you have to put into your mind when you’re planning your commercial strategy.  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  5 Critical Things you have to think about when you’re planning your commercial strategy:   Vision and Values. A scale-up always requires a different mindset. Your vision and values might have been different when you started your business. That time, what was important to you seems to work out, but as the time and the market changes, you have to adjust.  Why you started the business? Where do you want to take your business?  Brand and Proposition. A brand is everything that your business wants to achieve. It’s also about what you think of performance management. While, proposition, on the other hand, is about clarity and that you’re providing solutions to your customers’ problems.  Pitch – It’s important to let your customer know that you’re the one person who can solve his problem. No one else.  Moderation. How are you going to help your customers? How will you make them believe that you are the right person that could really give value to them?  Sales Engagement. It’s having effective systems and processes that can start predictability around your revenue model. This also makes sure that there is an exchange of value between you and your customers.  Metrics and Performance Indicators. Always aim for continuous improvement. Measurement should not just be done in the end… it should start and be done at the very beginning.  BEST MOMENTS  “If you’re in a business that is not growing because effectively, you’re not selling enough… and if you’re not selling enough, you’re probably not marketing your business the way it should be, then you have a heap of problems.”  “Problems change. The market moves quickly these days. Sometimes, you have to look at it differently.”  “Predictability of your sales and predictability of your revenues really start to manage your business effectively.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM)  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  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/

Before we go learning all about the technical stuff of creating and scaling up a business, let’s establish first in yourself the most important thing you MUST have – the right positive mindset.  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. 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/ Today on the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick emphasizes the importance of mindset and belief systems at the core of a successful business. It’s easy to learn about sales, marketing, operations and systems inside the business, but you have to have a firm foundation so you’d continue upscaling your business and not back out whatever the challenge will come your way. According to Nick, it also helps if we focus on our growth and be beneficial to others also.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  70% of running a business success depends on your mindset, 10% is your strategy, and 20% is execution.  Start believing you can do it. People don’t wanna start their own business because they’re afraid they don’t have the capability and they’re afraid it will have a bad outcome. Remember that every successful entrepreneur had their doubts and fears before everything else. They were prepared to take risks.  Where you focus, it’s where your energy goes. Start eyeing on what you want to achieve. Put all your effort to finish the tasks that come with your goals.  6 Human Needs:   Certainty: commitment to relationships, against changes  Uncertainty: variety, spontaneity  Significance: perceived by others  Connection/love: need to be loved  Growth: as an individual, your business or your career  Contribution: giving back  Having a growth and contribution mindset can only not have a great impact on your business and your customers, but also it brings good benefits to you as an individual.  5 Things You Need So You Continue Your Momentum.  A good morning routine.  Your vision and your WHY.  Commitment.  Immediate massive action.  Measurement   BEST MOMENTS  “The same thing can happen to one person that can happen to another person… but it’s how you associate meaning to that situation… that ultimately ends up the outcome.”  “There are systems out there who you can model. There are people out there who are in a similar journey. No need to reinvent the wheel. Workout how the people got to where you wanna get to and learn what they’ve done.”  “Whatever happens at the other end is actually not gonna be worse than you not trying at all.”  “Start to measure what’s actually working and assess what isn’t working and take new action.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins  The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8AM by Hal Elrod  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  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/

We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. 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/ Welcome to the podcast!  From start-up to scale-up!  Not every start-up idea can make it big and sustainable enough to be a scale-up. So, in this very first episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick Bradley, your host, aims to let you in on how can he help you on your entrepreneurship journey. From creating lifestyle businesses to performance businesses to your empire, Nick has it all set for you so you could begin growing your own.   Learn about his own journey on how he became one of the known international businessmen right now. For aspiring business leaders and for those who are already looking at expanding their business, this podcast will guide you along the way. Nick discusses today what should you be expecting in the next episodes. And before the discussion ends, discover why it’s important that you have your own mission statement not just for your business, but in general for your life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Nick Bradley is an entrepreneur, an author, a public speaker, and an investor. His entrepreneurship journey started very early, at the age of 18. Then, he decided to move to the corporate world where he got most of his knowledge of the business.  Nick has sold a number of companies. He’s been helping entrepreneurs get to where they want to be. He’s passionate about personal and professional development.  Nick aims to build a community through Scale Your Business Podcast who can share their knowledge and collaborate with each other.  The podcast will focus on building and developing the missions and visions of businesses. It will also focus on mindset, values, and standards. Nick also wants to bring people in to share their own journey so that you could learn and get new ideas for your business.  How you can make money by creating a business?  Generating revenue and profit.  Merging with other businesses.  Selling your business someday.  Nick believes that if you learn how to balance everything in your business and everything else outside of it, then everything will go in sync. You’re growing not just your business, but you’re also growing as an individual.  Mission statements help with everything that revolves around your business. Nick sees it as more broadly than business. Nick’s mission is to help others to follow their hearts, reach their dreams, show up, and realize their true potential.  BEST MOMENTS  “One of the core reasons I believe, and why I wanted to do the podcast, is scaling your business to exit or creating a capital event and all those things from your business is a very different mindset and capability from starting a business.”  “People who are good at startup are not necessarily good at scale-up.”  “You are the creative visionary entrepreneur. You can outsource some of the things and you can get the benefit of it without having to be tied to something that doesn’t engage you.”  “Have I lived to what my purpose is daily in the interactions I’m having with my clients, my partners, my investors.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill  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.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Is doing New Year’s Resolution or yearly goal-setting an overrated thing to do?  Welcome to the Scale Up With Nick Bradley! Learn today from your host Nick how to set goals, no matter what your timeline is. For Nick, he likes setting his goals yearly. But, the first thing he does is he finds a quiet place for himself for at least an hour and reflect on his life. He made reflecting and assessing very easy with the use of 5 categories. After this, it’s important to go back and establish your WHY so you know why you strive hard to achieve your goals. There are many great tips on how to set your goals effectively so start tuning in.  This episode is part of a two-part special so watch out for the next one if you want to know more about goal-setting!  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. 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  Nick sets his goals at every end of the year. Allow some time for yourself. Try to look back at every significant thing that happened to him for the entire year. Then, brainstorm on what you want to happen to you in the next period of your life.   Things can fall on any of Nick’s categories. Spend at least 5 minutes what’s happening in your life with respect to each category.  Things & Stuff  Experiences  Economic (Finances)  Career & Business  Contribution  Ask yourself: What goals can I accomplish in a year? What will take longer than 3 years? Why do you have to achieve your goals in the next 12 months?  It’s important to write down all your answers. The WHY is the most important. It’s easier to set and achieve your goals when you understand your WHY.  You can share your list to other people who could help you achieve it with you or help you be accountable with your goals.  Once you’ve seen your list of goals, think about what kind of person can do everything and achieve your goals. Nick suggests you also take note of your personal and professional developments. This could include your mindset, your belief systems, your focus, etc.  BEST MOMENTS  “Financial freedom is actually aligned to time freedom.”  “What are you gonna give back? Where are you gonna spend your time doing which is not just about your own personal goals or business goals”  “If you don’t have strong enough WHY you’re just not gonna get out of bed and do stuff.”  “It’s great to have these things written down. It’s great to understand what you want to achieve. But it’s what you do every single day to make progress against these goals.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  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/

It’s the second part of our special about How To Set Goals!  Today on the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick continues to discuss goal-setting and how to achieve your goals. If you miss out on the first part, then make sure to listen to our interesting discussion.  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. 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/ Learn today how to commit to your daily, weekly or even long-term actions. If you dread looking at very long to-do lists and end up not even finishing anything on it, then it’s time to learn the RPM Method, which stands for Results, Purpose, and Massive Action. Nick also suggests you schedule all your tasks so you know what to look forward to today and in the future. Note also that when you’re setting these goals, it’s important that you maintain a well-balanced life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Have disciplines, habits, and routines that could turn into daily actions.  RPM = Result, Purpose, and Massive Action. It banishes the need for to-do lists.   Result. The result has to be measurable and time-bound.  Purpose. If you don’t have decent enough ‘why’, it becomes difficult to be motivated.  Massive Action. The things you need to do.  He writes every task, event, appointment, etc. he has to attend to on his planner. Then, when it’s done, he marks it.  Nick also breaks the areas of improvements of his life into categories: family, personal activities, work, investments, advisory, free time.  Balance all the areas of your life. If you focus on one thing (i.e. business), you’ll eventually spiral down. The growth you’re aiming for is not quite holistic and does not benefit you in the long run.  BEST MOMENTS  “The WHY could be all sorts of things. It’s leading you to long-term vision.”  “Every single day… taking that small action is gonna get you a step up towards that goal.”   “If I get quite intentional with those RPM blocks every 3 months, I can set the results… I can set specific things around those categories and it starts to move me towards various things in my life that makes it balanced.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM)  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  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/

We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. 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/ Creating a start-up is just the beginning. The next steps in the journey are what all entrepreneurs should ready for, especially if you hit the No Man’s Land, where there will be struggles and challenges for your company. It’s up to you now how you could continue the momentum and survive every little thing of it.  In this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick lays out great strategies on how you can defeat and learn from the challenges of start-ups to be a scale-up. Discover also how you can turn yourself into an owner-investor instead of an owner-operator of your company. Pure optimism, confidence and motivation can go a long way but there’s a lot yet to learn on how to turn your start-up into a ‘proper’ business where you could actually benefit big time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Nick started his business when he was 18 while he was still living in Australia. He hasn’t got much money on his name and was finishing a degree at that time. So, he started working part-time in a gym where he met a guy who’d inspired him to start his own personal training studio. Nick was honest to admit that when he started it, he didn’t know anything about running a business.  When you start a business, you’re full of confidence and optimism, but when challenges come in, make sure you and your vision don’t get swayed by them.   The Scale-up Dimension. When you start seeing results and create momentum, that’s when you start thinking of building your ‘proper’ business. A proper business generates profit, lets you live the lifestyle you want, and leverages some of its operations.  There are two types of entrepreneurs: one is very good at start-ups and the other one is good at scale-ups.  BEST MOMENTS  “People who start businesses and have all the passion and the energy that comes from that are not always the best people to scale them up.”  “When someone has a problem that needs to be solved, they’re passionate about that problem and they have the absolute conviction to believe that they can add value and do something which can make a difference around that.”  “If you are very clear in your vision on why you started your business, your values, and all those sorts of things, you can actually navigate that area [No Man’s Land] quite well.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins  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/