This is the place to be to crack the Growth Code® for your business with more ease and less stress.    This episode is going to be a business reboot, a guide to self-coaching your way to creating momentum in your business with more ease.   I’m sharing the 7 Pillars of Business Mastery and today taking a deeper dive specifically into the Sales and Marketing pillars which are contingent to creating a business that loves you back. I’ll also be covering     •    One big mistake that people make in each of these pillars     • &n ..read more

Strategically approach your 2024 business plans. Starting With Setting Out Non-negotiables.  This year instead of overcommitting, and letting distractions and "things" pull you in a million directions it helps to know exactly what your non-negotiables are.  Why? Quite simply, if you don’t take control, someone or something else will.  Non-negotiables will ultimately help you approach your business plans more strategically, with less reactiveness to those things.   To help you, and maybe inspire you, here are my non-negotiables for 2024    Links mentioned in ..read more

Welcome to this little mini-series on Cracking the Growth Code®. In part 1, we're diving into what type of business owner are you? Do you ever feel like there’s something holding you back from reaching your next level of success? You know you’re meant for more and you wish you could crack the growth code. The big lesson I’ve learned on my up-and-down business journey is that there are phases to business and we are different people in each. But when we take the time to pinpoint where we are and identify with who we are and align who we need to be, we can get unstuck and move to the next level ..read more

How do you get what you really want?  After we finished talking about snowboarding, Alex Chisnall and I recorded a wonderful conversation about life and creating a vision. If you don’t know Alex, his story from flight attendant to the number 1 business advisor to Richard Branson’s Virgin start-up is epic and I couldn't have been more excited to have him on the Growth Code® podcast.   I’m not sure how we jammed so much into this… From embracing resilience, and self-doubt to the mistruths around limiting beliefs, operating outside your comfort zone, failing, and adopting the “screw it ..read more

A few clients have brought this up in coaching calls, they’ve asked “Sian, how do I deal with a difficult client?”   For business owners and particularly when you have a small team, a difficult client can really rock the boat. It’s not cut and dry, you can’t run around resigning PITA clients (that’s a pain in the a**) because they possibly bring in a good chunk of revenue. On the flip side, they could be hurting your team and creating a horrid working environment. How you handle the situation reflects on your leadership.   Let’s dive into three ways that you can handle a difficult cl ..read more

Do you have a lead problem... or is it something else? I hear business owners saying they need more leads but let’s check in and ask, are you sure?   There are only three ways to grow any business, and getting new clients is one of the ways. If you don’t know what it costs you to acquire a new client, I suggest you pause whatever you’re doing and go figure that out then come right back here.   If you’re spending good money to fill up your leads bucket which is full of holes, you’re throwing money down the drain. You may as well pop down to the casino and put your marketing dollars on ..read more

On this episode of the Growth Code® podcast, I’m talking with the experienced and wonderful Simon Collard exploring all things agency and finance related. And let me tell you, Simon’s hidden talent is turning complicated numbers from a barrier to growth into simple data that helps you make better decisions. We all want more profit and life to be a little easier, right? If you nodded yes then tune into this episode. We’ve covered everything from margin killers to profit vampires and you definitely want to hear about “conscious over-servicing”. Get your pen and notepad ready, Simon’s taking u ..read more

Glide your way from ‘stuck’ back to growth   Having a plan to go from where you are now back to growth and scaling your business or agency requires strategic change. In this episode, I’m talking to Freia from Be Reyt on how to make the sort of strategic change to grow and scale your agency, even if you’re feeling pretty stuck right now.   Dive into this episode with a pen and paper handy as we’re breaking down the steps, the process, and the planning that will get you to the next level of growth.   Thanks for listing to the Growth Code® podcast! I’m your host Sian, agency vetera ..read more

Growth, success, exits & teams #agencylife David and Bachir, are true agency veterans growing their London agency for 14 years to be a leading ecommerce agency and the fastest agency to become an Adobe Gold partner. And on this episode of the Growth Code® podcast, they’re sharing their secrets to success, and their experience of achieving an exit. We dive into the secret elixir of a successful agency (it’s not as sexy as you think) with absolute golden nuggets of advice for any service business owner of any size. You’ll be hearing from David and Bachi who have the scars and wounds from gro ..read more

For agencies and consultancies, it’s hard to market your own business. It’s hard to do it consistently and manage the seesaw of new business and delivery. In fact, 74% of agencies are missing the mark on their own positioning!  You don’t want to miss this episode, I take a deep dive with Claire Hutchings, the founder of Chime Agency to talk about where the biggest blockers and mistakes agencies are making are and understand where they can make the biggest gains. We’re in a bear market, there are lots of downward forces on agencies at the moment. And if you’re feeling that seesaw or roller ..read more