Growth Strategy

Fast growth strategy for Startup Company

Two months ago, I had a client sign on who challenged Soaring Phoenix to create a strategy to grow their start-up company fast. They want to achieve 5 million in revenue in two years. The client is a soon to be published author who wants to sell a million books. (Publishers print the book-they don’t [...]


Outsourcing Tip: How to handle a freelancer when the job isn’t delivered.

What do you do when your freelancer doesn’t deliver the project as promised? Well, I got asked this question just this morning. A client called with a dilemma. She hired an acquaintance as a graphic designer to create a logo and brochure for her computer repair company. She didn’t like what [...]


Recession Proof Your Small Business: Steps to Strengthen Your Strategic Position

A recession doesn’t have to cost your business. As a matter of fact, smart business owners use recessions as a time to strategically position themselves for economic rebound.
Unfortunately, most small business owners see recessions as a time to make across-the-board cuts. They shrink payroll, hoard cash, delay product development and simply try to [...]


New Year’s Checklist

As we head into a new year, the growth of our businesses will be the focus of strategy and planning sessions for at least the first quarter. Some of you early birds will have already begun this process in December, but for others the planning starts this month.

In my experience, strategic growth springs from [...]


Ten Reasons Why Your Company Needs a Customer Relationship Management Strategy

1. Profit more from every sale . Why do you keep wasting unrealized opportunities with your customers? You could be making more profits from each sale by managing the relationship right. Cut your costs by managing each account’s productivity.
2. Sell more [...]


Get BIG or Stay small

However, that paradigm changes as you grow your company because growth requires people - people who will change the way things are done, especially the decision process. And, it’s often been said, “business would be easy if it weren’t for people.” So, one of the most important skills you need, as the entrepreneur in charge [...]