Service Providers Making More Than $20k Per Month: Essential Skills You Need For Sustaining & Growing Your Business

We know firsthand how challenging it can be to build and grow a business that can withstand the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. We’ve worked with service providers in all stages of business, and while they can all equally be difficult to navigate, they each come with their own unique struggles. For the service providers who are already hitting $20k months and beyond, there are essential skills needed in order to continue building a sustainable business and experience continued growth.

From learning to hire effectively and mastering the art of delegation to overcoming mindset struggles and maximizing your profit, we've had these conversations countless times on our blog and podcast. We’ve gathered them for you here, so you can listen, read, and take notes (maybe even cry a little) at your own pace.

Everything You Need to Know About Hiring

Hiring is an art in itself that more CEOs need to slow down and take the extra time to learn about before diving in. You may be constantly putting out fires in your business that you feel would be avoidable if only you had team members, but before you rush into it, there are things to think about, learn, and brace yourself for.

• How and Who to Hire For Your First Employee? Here are Our 6 Tips

• Hiring a Contractor vs Employee - What is the Difference? 

• EP 588: How to Hire a Personal Assistant and Delegate Tasks Strategically

• EP 613: Why You Should Never Hire You 2.0

• EP 717: The Hiring Strategy We Suggest for the 2023 Climate 

Effective Team Onboarding

The act of interviewing and hiring is just one piece of the puzzle. How you onboard your new team members matters more than you may think. It’s more than just introducing them to the company and training– You want them to feel comfortable and equipped with the tools they need to understand their role, responsibilities, and how they fit into the big picture of your business so that they can perform their best.

• EP 741: How to Actually Delegate a Task to a Team Member

• EP 723: Creating a “Garage” for Your Business.

• EP 715: 5 Ways to Build Trust in Your Growing Team

• EP 700: How to Encourage Your Team to Be Problem Solvers

• EP 650: Part 2: How to Teach Your Team to Develop a Culture of Curiosity (Strategies We Use With Our Own Team)

How to Build an Ethical Team Culture

Building an ethical team culture is crucial to the longtime success of your team. Although we’re still learning ourselves, we’ve grown astronomically in our leadership positions and are pretty dang proud of where we are now. You may need to get in check about a few things like scheduling, delegation, and overall how to set the tone for a productive and communicative work environment.

• EP 685: How to Combat Productivity Paranoia with Your Team

• EP 701: 9 Operation Changes, Tweaks, and Eliminations Team Boss Project will See in 2023

• EP 699: The 4 Types of Problem Solvers Your Team Needs

• EP 702: The Importance of Clearly Defining Your Role as The Founder of Your Business

• EP 708: How to Identify Your Bottom Line and Other Ways to Be a Concise Leader 

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How to Create Your Mission, Vision & Values

If you haven’t yet created your mission, vision and values, we recommend getting on that ASAP. Identifying and defining your values is a huge key component to creating consistency within your business and standards for how to work in your business (for both yourself and your team members). They also allow you to establish your client experience and set guidelines for how you want your business to show up for clients.

• EP 574: Building a Hybrid Modeled Business

• EP 705: Our Company Motto and What it Means for You

• EP 730: There is No “Done” in Business

• How to Identify and Define Values that Your Business Can Actually Live In

Maximizing Your Profit

Profit is one of our favorite words and likely the most talked about topic on our blog and podcast. It’s so critical that you have a clear understanding of your profit margins and develop strategies to maximize your earnings, so you can reinvest back into your business, hire new team members, and provide yourself with financial stability. This means understanding your numbers, creating more efficient workflows, and pricing correctly especially when you have a team.

• 5 Ways to 5x the Value of Your Services 

• EP 682: Knowing this will Keep You In Business

• EP 707: The Missing Element When It Comes to Fin Lit for Femme Business Owners 

• How to Automate Your Client Onboarding Process

• What is a Signature Service and Why You Need One

Mindset Roadblocks for Advanced Businesses

Mindset struggles are not to be taken lightly. Although other aspects of business may seem more important to navigate, overcoming mental obstacles is necessary for the long term growth and success of your business. It’s essential that you’re able to push past limiting beliefs and develop a more resilient mindset. Otherwise, you may find yourself stagnant regardless of the more “tangible” work you’ve done in your business.

• How to Develop an Experimental Mindset and Curiosity Culture in Your Small Business

• EP 587: A Bookkeeper’s Perspective on the 1:1 vs 1:Many Business Model with Parker Stevenson

• EP 603: Uncovering Your Relationship with Money and Identifying what Financial Freedom Looks Like

• Success in Your Service Based Business: This is the Key Factor You Must Get Right

• Maximizing your Potential: Understand the Relationship Between Capacity and Business Goals 

C-Suite on Demand

It’s no secret that we women face unique challenges when it comes to business growth. As a woman-owned business owner, you have the opportunity to lead the way in creating a workplace culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. Inside C-Suite on Demand, we’ll help you build a team that not only supports your business goals but also reflects your values and vision. If you’re tired of carrying the weight of important business decisions on your shoulders, let’s chat so you can learn more about C-Suite on Demand and if it’s the next step in your business growth. Just fill out this short waitlist to book a time on our calendar!