Bonus Episode: How To Break Through The Business Growth Plateau

In another bonus episode, I’m sharing my second time to be a guest at M&A Unplugged, which is hosted by Domenic Rinaldi. For this episode, I talked about my strategy for helping B2B startups achieve scalable growth. I’ll be talking about my template for analyzing a company’s growth barriers, strategies for growth, and how to implement those strategies without making bad investments that won’t provide a return.  Whether you are an existing owner of a business or you are contemplating your business acquisition and want to grow it, you wouldn’t want to miss this episode.   Here are the topics we covered: Intro to this episode [01:15]  The stats in the startup space & what Brett found out about what’s preventing scalable growth [03:08]  Why will Brett’s methodology work for any company [06:22]  The three levers to look at when it comes to growth [07:11]  Brett’s discovery process for finding where the plateau is [08:38]  Most of the time the owners aren’t as accurate in revenue reporting [09:52]  Finding the true opportunities and their costs [11:33]  Brett’s approach to analyzing the client and the market [13:54]  You might want to consider hiring a market research company [16:28]  What the net promoter score is [19:08]  Check if your message is aligned with your audience [20:11] How to test and find the areas that are paying off [24:07] Pitfalls to avoid when doing growth strategies [26:27] Brett’s Growth Readiness Assessment [28:35] Why so many businesses plateau [30:57] Resource Links: Download my free Growth Readiness Assessment (https://mailchi.mp/bretttrainor.com/growth-readiness-checklist) Grab the free best practices and checklists for how to conduct diligence from Sun Acquisitions (http://www.sunacquisitions.com/) or K2 Adviser (https://www.k2adviser.com/) You can also listen to this episode on M&A Unplugged Ep. 94 (https://sunacquisitions.com/podcasts/94-how-to-break-through-the-business-growth-plateau-with-brett-trainor/)