– The question is, how do you grow your business bigger, faster and cheaper? How do you create exponential growth in the age of disruption? This video is not for you.
If you haven't figured out what business that you should be in.
This video is not for you if you're doing less than $100, 000 a year in your business.
You can skip this video.
This video is for you if you're doing a few hundredthousand dollars a year, and you want to break through that million dollar mark.
Or you're doing a fewmillion dollars a year but you can never break through that $10 million dollar mark.
If that's the case, then I think you'll find thisvideo extremely valuable.
What I'm going to walk you through is a powerful framework that I share with my high leveladvisory board members called Dragon 100.
Dragon 100 is where I advise, and consult with seven and eight figure entrepreneurs.
So I call this the Dragon 100 path and there are nine stages.
Stage number one.
You're what I call a dreamer.
You're doing betweenzero to $40, 000 a year Now as a dreamer, your primary question is, how do I get started? What do I need to do? Right? What is that big idea? What am I supposed to focus on? Your problem is lack of direction.
You don't know what to focus on.
You don't know what you're supposed to do.
But your advantage and your opportunity is you've got nothing to lose.
Because you're starting from scratch.
You haven't built anything yet.
So that's a great advantage.
A breakthrough question that you could ask yourself is, where is the blue ocean? Where is the blue ocean? Where's that opportunity? Where's that need in themarketplace right now that's not being fulfilled? That I could be there? That I could stand out? That I could offer something that is completely differentfrom everybody else? Where's that blue ocean? Stage number one, dreamer.
Stage number two.
From 40, 000 to $100, 000 a year.
You are now a founder.
The question that you askyourself most of the time is, how could I survive? How could I pay the bills? How can I just make enough, right? You're in that survival mode.
Your challenge would be lack of capital.
You don't have enough capital, sufficient capital to grow.
You don't have that yet.
You're still trying to make ends meet.
The opportunity that you have is you could fail fast.
And it doesn't cost you a lot of money.
And you want to pivot fast.
Fail fast and pivot fast.
You want to get to thatminimum viable product MVP.
As soon as possible.
You want to get it going.
A breakthrough question thatyou could ask yourself is, who could be my mentor? How could you findsomeone who's been there and done that.
And kind of show you the ropes.
So you don't have topay a lot of dumb tax.
So you don't have to figure out everything on your own.
Because that's very, very costly.
Stage three from $100, 000 to $300, 000 you are now a technician.
You the doer in your business.
A lot of small businessesfall under this category; Self-employed professionals.
Your focus day to day is what do I need to do today? What do I need to get done? Right? What fires do I need to put out? Very, very common.
Your problem is lack of leads.
You don't have that consistent lead flow that's coming in every single day.
You don't have a system for that yet.
The opportunity that you have, it's building that loyal customer base.
Making sure that yourclients and customers, they're satisfied withyour products or services.
That's the key.
That's what you need to focus on.
That's the opportunity.
And a breakthrough question that you could ask yourself is how could I make thatfirst profitable sale? And unless and until you have a predictable way of bringingin customers to the business, you don't have a business.
You have an expensive hobby.
when you can crack the code to making that first profitable sale.
That means now you can buy customers.
You can go onto social media.
You can advertise.
You could acquire.
You can advertise andbring those customers in.
But that's the key question.
How do you acquire? How do you make thatfirst profitable sale? When you can make that transition from the doer of your thing to a marketer of your thing, you will see a jump in your income.
And that's when youtransition to the next stage.
Stage number four.
You're now a marketer.
From $300, 000 to a million dollars a year.
A very powerful question to ask when you are a marketer is, how could I sell more tomy existing customer base? What else do they need? What's next? We have solved this problem for them.
What is the next problem? What is the problem after? What's the next thing that I could offer to them? What other things I could offer to them? That should be your focus as a marketer.
If you want to breakthrough the income ceiling.
And that's where mostentrepreneurs are stuck.
Even the good ones.
They're very good atmarketing their thing.
But they don't understand what got you here won't get you there.
They don't know how totransition to stage five.
Stage five you're doing between a million to $3 million a year.
You are now an operator.
Now as an operator, yourprimary question is, how could I get more done? Because now you're running a business.
You've got a team kind of going.
Maybe a small team.
You know, you're busy.
Right? You're selling, it's fine.
But then you're kind of stuck.
And you don't know what to do next.
It's not like you're startup.
But it's not that you're so big, that there's a lot of profit left.
So from the outside, you look pretty good.
You've got a you know, a business that's doinga couple million dollars, but that's not enough.
That's not giving you thefreedom that you want.
You kind of you're a little to be stuck here.
So as an operator, yourchallenge is lack of team.
You don't have a competent team.
So the opportunity is, how do you attract competent people who share your vision? Why would they want tocome and work for you and join your team? That's a very importantquestion to ask yourself.
And to be very, very honest with yourself.
And if you don't want to be the one that is doing all the work.
That's making all the decisions.
A key question you have to ask yourself is how do I apply process and procedure? How to apply that in my business? That's how you transition to stage six.
Stage six from $3 million to $10 million.
You are now a leader.
Congratulations, becausemost entrepreneurs never get to this level.
Now at this level, you're asking yourself, Where can I find good people? Where can I find good people? Because you are growing.
You're in hypergrowth mode, right? There are so many things to be done.
So many initiatives.
You don't have enough good people to perform all those tasks.
Your challenge is, lack of leadership.
Because no one taughtyou how to be a leader.
You don't know how to lead.
You are a good operator.
And as good as you're operator, that doesn't automaticallymake you a leader.
It's a very, very different skill.
And yes, leadership it is a skill set.
So a very powerful questionthat you could ask is not, where can I find good people? It is this, how can I create an environment so that good people will want to join our team? To join our company? You now think about it in a different way.
How do I attract the people? Not just pursue, but how to attract them.
And if you are good, you will transition to the next stage.
A stage that very fewentrepreneurs ever see.
That is stage seven, a manager.
That's correct.
A manager is at a highlevel than a leader.
I know that's counterintuitive.
Let me explain.
Just stay with me.
From 10 million to $30 million you're now a manager.
But now there's a problem.
Now you've got a bigger team, right? Your problem is lack of transparency.
Because now you have more people.
And it would feel like, how come you have more people, but everything gets slower.
Everything is not getting done as fast as when you had a smaller team.
Because now it's not just you.
You as a CEO, now you have layers and layers of communication.
Is not just you to one person.
Is you to one person, to the other person, to the other person.
It's a different thing.
So a very powerfulquestion to ask is this, how can I create more leaders? You see a leader takes effective action.
They make effective decisions.
But a manager, a great manager creates more leaders.
And that is what is going to get you to that next level.
And that is stage number eight.
From 30 million to 100 million, then now you are an innovator.
Very few people ever get here.
Very, very few.
Chances are, the question thatyou ask yourself every day is how can I empower my leadership team? Because now you have a leadership team.
But your biggest problem is not growth.
Your problem in something else.
It's how could you sustain this business? It's one thing to be successful, and now you are successful.
But then how do you keep it going? How do you stay successful? The opportunity that you have is, now it's time to bring on a CEO or a COO to run your business.
A breakthrough question thatyou could ask yourself is this.
How can I stay in my zoneof entrepreneurial genius.
So that you're creating.
You're innovating.
You're coming up withideas and strategies.
But you have a leadership team.
You have a COO or CEO running the day to day.
Running that business.
So maybe you go out andstart another business.
Right? Maybe you start another division.
Now it's a different thing.
Now to me, you are a true entrepreneur.
But there's one more stage.
And that stage number nine.
And that is from 100 million and beyond.
Now you are an acquirer.
See you ask a very different question.
Now you're asking what should I invest in? You've already got the money, your business is working.
The key is how do you convert that profit into investments? And chances are, you are the category kingor queen in your industry.
You are the the big 800 pound gorilla.
You are the leader in your industry, if you're doing 100 million dollars.
Depends on your industry.
You're doing well.
You're doing good.
But now the question is not so much growth and growing more and more.
but it's what's my legacy? What is my legacy? So those are the nine stages within the Dragon 100 path.
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