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49: How My Business Made More Money Last Year Than Ever Before - Part 2
🔥 How My Business Made More Money Than Ever Before Last Year - Part 2 🔥
Before diving into Part 2, make sure you listen to Part 1 first! Check it out here.
In this episode of the Positioned Podcast, I’m sharing the strategies that helped me break through and make more money than ever before. From sowing at a higher level to focusing on money-making activities (MMAs), these are the moves that made all the difference in my financial breakthrough.
💡 In this episode, you'll learn:
- How I learned to embrace stretch clients that pushed me to level up
- The importance of focusing on MMAs and cutting out unnecessary busywork
- Why it’s essential to set boundaries and let go of draining relationships
- How learning to say No can make space for bigger, better opportunities
- And more...
I’m sharing how these strategies helped me move forward in my business and how you can implement them too to see your own breakthroughs!
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Hi and welcome to the Positioned Podcast. I am your host, kimberly Knight, and today we are diving into part two of how my business made more money than ever last year. If you haven't already listened to part one, please go do that now and I will leave a link for you in the show notes that you could click right on over and then come back to this one and I got to be real with you Last year wasn't about making more money, it was about making wiser, more faith-led, god-led decisions that allowed God to multiply what I was doing. So in this episode I'm not going to gatekeep. I'm going to share more that made a difference and hopefully you will find something that resonates with you so that you can like or share this broadcast with someone who's also growing their business and wants to do it the right way. So let's get to it.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I did last year on a whole different level was to give. I gave on a whole different level last year. Next level living. Next level revenue requires next level sowing. So since I received more, I gave more, and this principle has played out not only in my business but in my life and has been a major role in financial breakthrough, since we know we reap what we sow. Only sow what you want to reap.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I did that really helped me to make more money last year in my business than I ever did before was to take a stretch client. Saying yes to that stretch client really was a game changer for me, and it required next level everything. It stretched my capacity, it stretched my creativity, it stretched my skillset and there were skills that I already had but it took it to a whole other level and I had to tap in at a whole other level in order to really give this client my A game. And sometimes that looks like discomfort at first. Sometimes it was not comfortable Let me just be honest and there were times when I felt like I was in over my head and I was, but it was a good thing because it made me work hard and because it made me work harder and be more intentional. It stretched me in ways that I will never be the same again. This level of client is no longer a stretch client for me. It's now my new norm. They also paid me more than my normal client, so hallelujah Amen.
Speaker 1:Another thing that really helped us raise our revenue last year was what I call MMA not mixed martial arts, but money-making activities. So a lot of times, as entrepreneurs, we will do busy work we're never bored but it doesn't mean that it is producing or generating revenue. So we have to be sure that our activities are focused on generating revenue and not just busy work and busy work is not always a bad thing. I mean, there are some behind the scenes things. There are some logistics in my business, as well as operations that need to be taken care of. They don't necessarily need to be taken care of by me. Some things can be automated. Some things I had to hire out. Some things I had the virtual assistant. I talked about that in the last episode. You've got to go back and listen to that last episode. That was a game changer for me. I'm getting the right tax preparer slash tax strategist Game changer for me Rather than just staying busy by doing my books or creating the PowerPoint.
Speaker 1:The PowerPoint needed to be created. It didn't need to be created by me, and some of you are listening to this and saying I don't yet have the revenue to pay all these people. If you don't go and find yourself a college student, a high school student. Come on, you do it on your level, and I talk about that. Do it on your level. I'm not asking you to have a whole division or a whole department and put somebody on salary. Do it on your level If you cannot hire someone on salary.
Speaker 1:I didn't hire someone as a full-timer or even a part-timer. I took on persons who were doing gig jobs, or my virtual assistant, who I know, you know, who was a repeat performer and she's back this year and I'm so incredibly grateful. Y'all will be hearing more about her because she is the hostess with the mostest. I'm loving this girl. So do it on your level where you can afford it. But I am telling you it's going to be a game changer. I have been doing PowerPoints for I don't know decades, I don't know Long, long, long, long, long time. But this person I paid gave me a PowerPoint that, when I did the client presentation, they said, wow, this looks really great. It was worth every dime, because the time I would have spent, the time I would have been spent, was spent in money-making activities that generated a higher income. That really warranted my hiring. This person pay for this person and gave me revenue above and beyond with my stretch client. So do you see how all this is working together for my good? Hallelujah, amen.
Speaker 1:Another thing that we did last year yeah, okay, so this one was mainly me, but I chose life-giving conversations and protected my peace. I'm going to say that again for the people in the back I chose life-giving conversations and protected my peace. I was very intentional about where I invested my energy and my time. Remember, there's a difference between spending your time and energy and investing your time and energy. Go back to part one. There's a difference between spending it and investing it. Investing it multiplies, it increases. There's a positive energy that comes from it. There's something's a positive energy that comes from it. There's something good, a benefit, that comes from it.
Speaker 1:So if the conversations weren't going to lead to something positive, I'm not going around in circles. I don't want to disturb my peace. I don't want to disturb my peace. I get inspired by progress and clarity, wisdom, mutual respect. So if the conversations weren't leading in that direction, I cut them short. And that doesn't mean I'm rude. I wasn't rude or disrespectful or dishonoring. I mean there were times I could have been a little sharp. I have to admit that, and there were some times I had to apologize, and I do that because that's what I should do, but I also had to learn how to walk away with grace. And that doesn't mean you need a big announcement. That doesn't mean you need to put a post on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, protecting your peace means you don't have to tell anybody. Sometimes, protecting your peace means you don't have to tell anybody. You're protecting your peace, you just do it. And an amazing thing happens when you protect your peace, not only are you investing your time, energy, effort and conversations into people and conversations that grow you, but it also leaves you margin for creativity. Here's the interesting thing about protecting your peace this way as well. Not only did it give me the margin to use my creativity now for money-making activities, it gave me the margin. I needed that. When something that wasn't positive came up, when something that was a challenge came up, when things didn't go my way, I had the capacity and the margin to deal with them on a whole other level, in a whole different way, because all of my energy had not been spent. It had been invested, so that I had margin. I had enough to now deal with the issue without having a complete come apart or even stopping my business flow. So we had a much better, much more continuous flow of income because I had the margin now to deal with it.
Speaker 1:Protect your peace, people. It's not selfish. Protecting your peace, people, it's not selfish. Protecting your peace is strategic. Again, I say hallelujah and amen. Now here's something else, and I mean these are not traditionally the things that you would think of that increase your revenue, but I can tell you every last one of them worked, and here is one of those.
Speaker 1:No is a complete sentence. And here is one of those no is a complete sentence. I said some no's last year that probably a year prior, not even probably, I know the year prior I said yes to, but every no is a yes somewhere else. Every yes is a no somewhere else. So you have to choose your yeses and no's. The word says let your yay be yay and your nay be nay, right. So I had to learn that saying no to things that weren't aligned for bigger opportunities for me was okay. It's okay to say no to things that are not aligned to where you're going, and it may have been great and it's time, or it and it may be time to let it go. So I had to say no to some certain things, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1:And let me, let me just give a caveat to that. I am not talking about being irresponsible. I am not talking about just walking away from things and and not being integral with your word. I'm not talking about that being integral with your word. I'm not talking about that. I am saying there are times when things you used to do you can't do them any longer. But if that be the case, to the best of your ability, as much as it is within you, make sure that you do it responsibly, make sure that you do it with grace and wisdom, make sure that you are not leaving people just like in a lurch, like hope you make it. That's not. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about choosing how you invest that time.
Speaker 1:Saying no to spending time with, with people, places and things, or in, even in organizations that no longer aligned with where I'm going and and they're either their ideology or, um, what they're moving into next just wasn't part of my new yes. So here's another thing that I have to say, and I hadn't planned on saying this, but I guess somebody needs to hear it. My husband has this, saying that just because they came with you doesn't mean they can go with you, and sometimes that means some things that have been a part of your past are not necessarily going to be a part of your future. And it's not that anything is wrong or they did anything wrong. It's just that you've grown in ways that no longer support those types of conversations and relationships, and that is okay. Again, you don't have to make a big announcement. You don't have to hurt that person's feelings or start posting on Facebook about how you're cutting people off. You can go quietly, and sometimes it's not just cutting that person off. Sometimes it's just spending less time or investing spending or investing. You make the distinction spending or investing less time and energy in that particular relationship and sometimes those relationships come back and sometimes they don't, and I've had experience with both. And if you want an episode on that, send me an email. We'll get an episode on that, all right?
Speaker 1:Last tip that helped me to make more money, increase our revenue exponentially last year, better than ever before, and on track to do even better this year. Here's the last tip, and this is big. This is so big that I think I'm going to do. I think I'm actually going to host a class on this, I think, and if you would like that, please send me an email about this one Strategic planning Now. For those of you who know me, please send me an email about this one Strategic planning Now.
Speaker 1:For those of you who know me, I've always strategically planned. That is not new. I learned it as part of my. It's part of my educational background, it is part of my professional background. It is part of what I just love to do, naturally, and what I'm gifted to do. But I planned at a whole different level this year. The prophetic strategic planning session that I hosted in the beginning of last year set the tone for my entire year and I have to tell you that plan I took it to a whole new level and I also I got some help with that. It's like a surgeon doesn't operate on themselves, so I got some backup on my plan.
Speaker 1:What do you think of this plan From somebody who specializes in strategic planning as well? What do you think of this plan? And showed me my blind spots, and those blind spots were causing me to leave money on the table, with commas, y'all. I'm going to say that again those blind spots, even though I'm good at what I do. I am really good at strategic planning, and I'm not saying that out of pride. I'm saying that because that's the grace that God has given me. But this person showed me some blind spots that would have left money with commas on the table. So I do think this year I am going to host something to help you all strategically plan.
Speaker 1:I hosted one last January and everyone who attended has increased their revenue. They increased their revenue, so I think I'll do that again. If that's something you want to take part of, or you think I really should do that, why don't you drop me an email? I'm going to put a link in the show notes about that as well, and stay tuned for more announcements in future episodes. Again, I'm going to encourage you to go back and listen to part one, because there's some nuggets there that you don't want to miss. Miss, because this could be the year that you have the same testimony that your business made more revenue than any other year prior to this one. It was your best year yet Not ever but yet this was the first one of many, many, many more to come, so I want to hear from you. Be sure to like, tag and share the broadcast. Share it with friends who need to make some money, share it with friends who need to make some money. Share it with friends who need to make some money too. And until next time, be wonderfully blessed.
