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How to Grow Your Small Business

A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off
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How to Grow Your Small Business by Donald Miller provides a strategic blueprint for small business owners to streamline operations, improve marketing, and increase revenue. The book offers practical advice and actionable steps to help entrepreneurs build a solid foundation and scale their businesses effectively. It combines real-world examples with straightforward guidance to make growth attainable and sustainable.
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This book may appeal to you if you are a small business owner looking for practical strategies and actionable advice to take your business to the next level. The author provides a clear roadmap for marketing, sales, and leadership that can help you navigate the challenges of growth and sustainability.

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The Wall Street Journal Bestseller

For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They’re stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives entrepreneurs a 6-step plan to grow their businesses so they produce dependable, predictable results.

Using the exact steps you’ll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn’t exist. Until now.

In this book, you’ll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them - your Flight Plan. When you have a completed Flight Plan in hand, you can stop drowning in the details and spend more time doing the things you truly love - in your business and your life.

In How to Grow Your Small Business, you’ll learn how to:

  • Cast a vision for your company that includes three economic priorities
  • Clarify your marketing message
  • Install a sales framework that makes your customers the hero
  • Optimize your product offering
  • Run a management and productivity playbook that aligns your entire team
  • Use 5 checking accounts to manage your cash flow

If you’re ready to experience freedom, flexibility, and growth for your business, How to Grow Your Small Business is the book you’ve been waiting for.

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How to Grow Your Small Business by Donald Miller has received positive reviews, highlighting its practical advice and actionable strategies for entrepreneurs. Readers appreciate the clarity of the principles and the real-world examples provided. Some have mentioned that it's a must-read for anyone looking to take their small business to the next level.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781400235346

Publisher: HarperCollins Focus

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins Leadership

Edition: ITPE Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 212.0mm

Weight: 335g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Donald Miller has helped more than 3,000 businesses clarify their marketing messages so their companies grow. He's the CEO of StoryBrand, the cohost of the Building a StoryBrand Podcast, and the author of several books, including the bestsellers Blue Like Jazz and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Betsy, and their dogs, Lucy and June Carter.

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