How to grow your business with my NEW Small Business Growth Plan

In today’s episode of the podcast, I talk about my NEW Small Business Growth Path, The Marketing That Converts Academy and a VIP Mastermind Stay I am hosting in December. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST It never gets easier, it just gets different. Each stage in your business you hit will bring fresh challenges.When you first start your business, you are doing everything including trying to learn so much and join every course – The information can be overwhelming.There is SO much out there right now for resources and information.My NEW Small Business Growth Plan – 3 different stages (Bloom, Grow, Flourish). This allows you to identify where you are at in your business and gives you ideas on what you need to do to get to the next level.My membership doors are open Friday 24th September to Wednesday 29th September – this is the last time before the price goes up next year! THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE… Now is your last chance to join The Marketing That Converts Academy before the price goes up! HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS My NEW Small Business Growth Path 06:03The Academy Next Level 18:10VIP Mastermind Stay 19:37 RESOURCES MENTIONED Join The Marketing That Converts Academy before the price goes up! TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So last week's episode, I've just got to touch on it before we get on with this week's. Wasn't it good?Honestly, I loved that episode and in fact, it's on my list to go back to listen to again, and jot some things down that we need to do. And fully enough, I've just recorded the episode that's coming after this one, which is with Dennis Yu, it's a really good one, lots of really, really good stuff in that episode.And at the end of the episode, I say that, you know, even though we know there's this big list of things to do, it doesn't necessarily mean that like, we should beat ourselves up if we haven't done them. Because. But some of these people who I have on the podcast, they come on to talk about one specific thing that they do all the time.So it feels like easy because that's the thing they do, or they're at a different part in their journey to where you are. So it might be that, you know, for, for instance, take me in the podcast that I have a process now that kind of works itself, which is brilliant, but it didn't start out like that. And I think what happens is sometimes you look at someone else's sort of journey or you look at where they are and you look at what they're doing and you beat yourself up thinking, "Oh my goodness, I should be doing that. Why aren't I doing that? Why isn't my business at that point?" And it's just because you haven't got there yet. And that's okay. Because everyone you're looking at was exactly where you are right now.And they had to get there themselves and some get there faster, some get there slower, some do it one way, some do another. It really doesn't matter. It's just a case of don't beat yourself up about it. Which is a little bit, what I want to talk about today. And to tell you it might be a bit of a weird episode.I'm sat here. It's really early in the morning. I'm with my coffee and I feel like we're just going to have a chat, which I like, I like, I get nice reviews on the podcast saying that it sounds like we're just out for coffee, having a chat, which today we are, I'm sat here with my coffee chatting to you. So, yeah, that's lovely.I love to hear that. Also. I love to get the reviews and reviews really helped me get seen and get the podcast seen. And, you know, what's really frustrating. Like I've been going at this for 209 episodes and like I watched the rankings, I get an email every week telling me what rank I am and it makes no sense.No sense. I get regular consistent downloads, lots of downloads. And yet my ranking goes up and down and up and down sometimes disappears. Like I'm not even ranked and I'm just like, how can this be the case? And then I see someone start a podcast, like five episodes of one review and they're ranked higher than me.And it's like, I don't get it. So if you're not doing anything at any point today, which probably isn't the case. Cause I know you're super busy. But you know, Uh, scrolling Instagram later. Maybe could you go to the apple podcast app? If you're with apple, if not, wherever you are and go and write me a lovely five star review, I'd really, really appreciate it.Cause sometimes these things feel tough and that's the other thing, actually, I want to say. Is that it doesn't change, you know that, don't you. So in my head, when I started my business, everything was like, if I could just get to this point, it will be easier. If I could just get to this point, I'll manage that better.If I can just get to this point, I'll feel more confident. It never stops. It's like, it's like having a child. I remember my sister saying to me when I had my daughter, she had already had three children by that point, she had had a girl in twin boys and she said to me, "It never gets easier. It just gets different."And I think that's a great analogy for business. I think that's really good because it's right. It never gets easier. Like. You know, and funnily enough, I've been writing some emails for next week. It could be no, is it for this week? I don't know when it's for anyway. And that's, from when you batch, you don't know when things go out and it talks about New Level, New Devil and that's exactly true.It's so true. So when you struggle and think, I just need to get to this point, when you get to that point, you suddenly then have a whole new host of things that you've got to think about and worry about. Like I said, a bit like having a child, you desperately want them to sit up so they can sort of, you know, whatever, manage themselves a bit better.And then when they sit up, there's another problem. And then you want them to crawl and then when they crawl there's another problem. So. And you think that when they can talk, it's going to be better. And then that causes something else. So it's just like that in business. So, like I said, today's going be a bit of a random episode.I've got random bits of paper in front of me which I'm about to move. So I'll probably make sounds I'm sorry. Um, I feel very unprofessional today. But I want to tell you about something I've been working on and I'm super excited about it, but also I'm the queen of doing things last minute, but I don't know about you, but I work really well under pressure. When I don't have like loads to do.And people literally hammering on my head for stuff. I'm a little bit. I take too long. I'm a perfectionist. I take too long. I work on these things. So one part of me is panicking. I'm not going to get this done. And another part of me is going, you absolutely have to get this done Teresa, because one, you're literally talking about it on the podcast. Two you've written emails about it that are ready, scheduled to go out whenever they're going out.So you will make this work. So sometimes I think that's great, but basically let me try and explain to you what I've done. And how this kind of fits in with the fact that the academy doors are open this week, as you are listening to this. And I think I gave you a heads up that they were opening last week.So I have created a Small Business Growth Path. Now that name might change. I'm still not convinced on all the stuff, all the details. So, but I hopefully I think that that will do for now. So basically what this is, is it's comes from the fact of exactly what I said at the beginning. When you are in business, you are doing an amazing job.You're listening to this podcast. You're learning. You might be in the academy, you might be getting support. You might be right reading blogs, doing online courses. You're doing all the stuff. But the problem with that is, is that you are totally overwhelmed with everything you should be doing.So for instance, on last week's episode, you know, the amazing Rachel talk to us about all the different types of posts we should be doing. And how to get all that engagement. And how to make something go viral. She talked like writing all those insane amount number of blog posts. Next week, Dennis Yu's going to talk about how we should be using video and where you should put that video and all these things.And honestly, your head could just spin off with all the stuff that you could do. And this is where this world we're in now is a double-edged sword. When I started in marketing, things were limited. Like you could only do certain things and your budget often meant it made your choice for you. So that almost as frustrating as it was, was simpler because of the fact that you didn't have many choices. Now we have a million choices and a million things we should be doing. Should we be on every different social media? Should we be on TikTok? I don't do TikToks yet. Should I be doing them? Should I do more reels? How do I do more reels? Should I be writing a blog as well as a podcast?Should I be doing videos on YouTube? Should I be going live every week? Seriously, so much stuff. So what I wanted to do was put together this, this path that basically told you at what points to do what. Because you know what happens, right? So what I've done is I, I it's up in three different stages. So I've called each stage a different...