170 Leslie Hassler: How to Grow Your Business and Reach Your Goals

In this episode of the Learning from Smart People Podcast, Leslie Hassler talks with Rob Oliver about how to grow your business and reach your goals. She is a speaker, author and business strategist. Leslie helps women-owned, service-based industries to achieve more profits, cash flow and success. Her proprietary method is called the Scaling Rich™ method.

Here are some of the major points covered as Rob Oliver and Leslie Hassler talk about how to grow your business and reach your goals:

· Leslie’s entrepreneurial journey and how she learned the lessons that she teaches (the hard way)
· Going through the struggles of being an entrepreneur creates empathy with the people she serves
· We can learn business lessons from things that are going on around us that are not necessarily business related
· You cannot be static in your understanding of business and be effective
· When we share stories, we make ourselves relatable and anchor our teaching points
· What’s the difference between growing a business and scaling a business?
· The investment into growth has an even exchange, investing in scaling has a higher return on investment
· It starts with figuring out where you want to go with your business
· Growth is about building the foundations, profitability is about maximizing the return on those investments
· There is no “Profit Fairy”
· The six elements of profitability
· Tips for supporting the profit of your business
· Many people fear the numbers, it’s actually just third grade math!
· Reverse engineering profitability is not that complicated
· You cannot make up in volume what you lose in margin
· The things that we are willing to pay more for are culturally based

You can learn more about Leslie Hassler and the Scaling Rich™ method through the links below. Be sure to take advantage of her free download as well.

Website: https://www.yourbizrules.com/
Download: https://www.yourbizrules.com/21-ways-to-fund-business-growth/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YourBizRules/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leslie.hassler/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliehassler/

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