Diamond Effect - Strategies to Scale Your Service Business as a Sellable Asset
This podcast helps service-based entrepreneurs and business owners scale their businesses in any economy without overworking or overwhelm. The goal is to create an asset you can sell while enjoying life as you build it.
Here, you turn your business into a client-attracting gem and become a high-performing CEO.
About the Host:
Maggie Perotin is the founder of Stairway to Leadership. As an international business and leadership coach, Maggie helps service-based business owners start, grow, and scale their businesses without overworking or being overwhelmed.
With her DREAM-PLAN-DO coaching model, her clients scale while transforming into high-performing CEOs of their businesses.
This is what USA Today wrote about this model in the article titled: "How Stairway to Leadership is turning small businesses into high-profit ventures."
"(...) her DREAM-PLAN-DO coaching model, she helps her clients align their mindset, business strategy, and high-performance habits to transform their businesses from an unreliable source of income to a super-productive client-attracting gem. Maggie adds that she uses all her knowledge and experience to help her clients grow their businesses in a strategic and innovative way while supporting them in building a successful business that consistently attracts their ideal clients. She specializes in helping them build a brand that showcases their uniqueness to reach their full potential, becoming the powerful CEO they’re capable of being."
Maggie has over 15 years of experience in corporate leadership in various business domains and coaching. She holds an executive MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute.
Maggie lives in Toronto, Canada, with her blended family with four kids. She loves spending time in nature, traveling, reading, dancing, good food, and giving back.
To learn more, head to www.stairwaytoleadership.com
To work with Maggie and gain break-through clarity on why your business isn't scaling- schedule a free 50-min consultation https://calendly.com/maggie-s2l/discovery-call
Diamond Effect - Strategies to Scale Your Service Business as a Sellable Asset
Too Busy to Grow? Why Service Providers Can’t Scale Without CEO-Level Leadership
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If you’re trying to scale to six (or multiple six) figures but you feel overwhelmed and too busy to even think, this is for you.
Scaling isn’t about doing more; it’s about becoming the CEO of your business, not just the service provider. In today’s Maggie’s Moment, I’m breaking down the 3 leadership skills that actually create growth: clarity, leading your people, and protecting CEO time. Want support stepping into that next level? Book a complimentary consultation with me here - https://calendly.com/maggie-s2l/discovery-call-1
If you've been trying to scale to six or multiple six figures and you can't seem to get there, if you feel overwhelmed, overbooked, and honestly just too busy to even think about growth, here is what you're missing. It's not another marketing tactic, it's your leadership skills. Scaling requires you to become a CEO of your business, not just a highly skilled service provider, because growth isn't about doing more. It's actually about thinking differently, and your business will only grow to the level of leadership behind it. So here are the three CEO skills that most service providers must develop to scale. First, clarity and direction. You need to know exactly where you're going, not only short-term, but also long-term. And then learn how to balance short-term needs of your business, like cashflow now, with the long-term priorities, systems, improvements, and projects that create capacity and future growth. Second, leading people. Hiring support is the first thing, but then leading your team is another. Whether they're contractors or employees, whomever helps you scale, they need leadership. And that often means having uncomfortable conversations, setting expectations, and holding the line on what aligned with the vision actually looks like. Third, protecting the asset, meaning you. You are the biggest asset in your business. And if 100% of your time is spent working in the business in the day-to-day, there's no room to work on the growth. Scaling requires CEO time, strategy, deep think- deep thinking, and building what makes you money later, not what j- not just what pays bills today. If you want help stepping into that CEO role, book a complimentary call with me and let's map out your next level. Talk to you soon.