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  1. YelmisPravida

    Transforming both my business and myself - going from soft to hard, going hard-line with "no free work", and letting go of people and turning profit

    MINDSET SCALING SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    Posted this in my personal chronicle, but I think it deserves to be its own post: Serious changes going on in the business right now. This has forced me to change as a person and face fears I've not had the courage to face before. I'll summarize them here. Thread 1: Loss of our largest...
  2. YelmisPravida

    Chronicle - Building my first business

    EXECUTION 
    Serious changes going on in the business right now. I have realized that I had a lot of limiting beliefs. Here's what's happened since last time: Thread 1: Loss of our largest customer resulting in new strategy In October last year, we lost our biggest customer. This forced me to let go of...
  3. YelmisPravida

    Chronicle - Building my first business

    EXECUTION 
    Currently thinking about selling the business to weather out the storm, vs. executing in a strategy I strongly believe in: https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/im-scared-that-ai-will-make-my-crm-and-marketing-software-business-obsolete-should-i-sell.108281/
  4. YelmisPravida

    From podcasting to newsletters... the new HOT thing?

    You mean like helping people easily start a podcast? Sounds like it could work - everybody and their mom wants to do it. C - If you create a sort of a "learning platform" combined with distribution and other types of tools that help people start, distribute, and manage their podcasts and the...
  5. YelmisPravida

    From podcasting to newsletters... the new HOT thing?

    You can probably do it if you target a really specific niche, and have a big value exchange (both ways) with that particular niche. For example, I run a company that sells B2B marketing automation software for SMEs in a particular country with non-English speakers. We are considering which...
  6. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    Update: Incorporated much of the feedback here, especially "selling" the idea to the employees - how it will directly benefit them. Done this by three methods: 1. I already had a "Vision doc", where the full "company blueprint" (exactly how everything should work in the ideal reached stage)...
  7. YelmisPravida

    How do I add a signature in my posts?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Hmm now I'm wondering, should I move my chronicle thread to the Insiders Process Diaries section instead of the Process & Execution section where it is now?
  8. YelmisPravida

    How do I add a signature in my posts?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Ok I'm an Insider now ;) Since I decided a few weeks ago to incorporate a process whereby I log in and read/write something here every 3-4 days or so to continuously improve my mindset and skills, it's well worth it.
  9. YelmisPravida

    Life altering insight: Pursuing a clear vision vs. improving iteratively (and how lack of trust in myself led to the latter)

    MINDSET 
    I've always seen life through an evolutionary lens: The best and safest way to build something is to start with what you have now, identify the current biggest problem or bottleneck, improve that - in a way that is "reversible" should it not work out. Doing this over and over will lead you to a...
  10. YelmisPravida

    How do I add a signature in my posts?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Pasting a screenshot of what I want to achieve, couldn't find a place to add this in any of my settings:
  11. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    For those interested in more context, I've written a background post: How this business started and got to where we are, and the hurdles we're facing now to take the next step. This will explain why I'm doing this "standardizing delivery" thing in the first place.
  12. YelmisPravida

    Chronicle - Building my first business

    EXECUTION 
    I'm planning to post here regularly, and rather than introducing my business every time I post a question, I'll chronicle it here and point to this thread. So here's the summary of where we are today: Back in 2013-2015, after having worked with B2B sales and marketing and built a small sales...
  13. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    SITUATIONAL UPDATE: We've now officially launched our solutions marketplace, and we have covered it with enough solutions to warrant a new "page" at the bottom of the site :) Using the tips from this thread, I have more clearly articulated the benefits of this approach for the PMs and how it's...
  14. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    This isn't the vision. This is my summary here of how I want a particular aspect of the business to work. To clarify: Today, every person delivers basically whatever the client needs, and they have to rely on their own knowledge. By productizing our deliverables (creating packages that present...
  15. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    This is my talk here, not with employees. With employees, what I've done is: Made clear rules about how we deliver a solution to a client. Explained where we're headed and how the company will look (this is what I mean by "The vision" - it's simply a doc explaining what kind of solutions we'll...
  16. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    I haven't - but thanks I've added it to my to-read list. I tend to focus a huge amount on the Why in 1-1 meetings, but I might have missed it in communicating this vision. In fact, I've just taken a moment there to update our vision doc to really clearly express how the way we've gotten to this...
  17. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    Hey Eudaimonium, thanks for your reply! Here are my answers: The vision is quite big - it's an all-encompassing description of where we're going to be, what we're going to sell, how we're going to deliver, and how we're going to scale. In the end, it's a complete transformation of the business...
  18. YelmisPravida

    Getting employees to follow my vision

    I run a company with 12 employees. So far, I've been the type of leader who gets everybody's input, to get them onboard on the vision. But that's becoming more and more impossible. Recently, I've launched a vision and shifted my style to the more "here's what we are going to do, and here's what...
  19. YelmisPravida

    UPDATED for 2024: Triple Your Business This Year

    MARKETPLACE 
    Fantastic quote! I've been implementing a new process in our company: "If a customer asks for it, we will say yes and add it as a solution to our 'add-ons' page". We are a service company so it's really only a matter of "packaging" solutions and starting to offer them, provided we have the...
  20. YelmisPravida

    Fastlane Success (8 figure exit!) - Now Back to the Starting Ground !!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I am on my journey, currently figuring out how to get to the next big step with my business (700K$ revenue today and growing roughly 10% yearly), and this is exactly how it feels. Small challenges and next steps, seeing the big vision but working on the next few steps ahead, and tackling...
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