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The answer is pretty obvious. Capital, sales, marketing, top-performing talent, systems, investment mindset, luck and more. Whether you finance your growth the way the big boys do or you bootstrap your way way using good old fashioned sales and marketing muscle.
Either way you must stay committed to learning to sell and market better each step along the way. You must invest and watch the numbers. You have to learn and adapt. You have to communicate clearly. And you have to have have a real plan of action that the people in the business actually follow!
Yet, small business owners live in a different world than the big boys. For a reason! It costs big bucks to grow and run a real sales and marketing operation. And discipline. Follow through. Tenacity. And did I mention capital? Big capital most of us and will never have like the Fortune 1000.
Salary.com reports that the median salary for a marketing director today is $123,144 a year. That’s $10,262 a month. Likely more than 10x the entire monthly marketing budget for stuff like SEO that doesn’t work, social media that gets zero result, and all sorts of gimmicks and tricks that seem to work only a little at the very best.
What about a sales director? Again, Salary.com states it’s $145,151. Ouch. Cost prohibitive. So cruel. You may not even pay yourself that much! As a result, millions of small business owners suffer doing it the only way they know how which is poorly.
So what’s a business owner to do about all this sales and marketing stuff? Here are 3 simple steps to walk yourself through when it comes to getting better performance results without losing your mind and crushing your budget …
Either way, you have to learn, grow and make mistakes just like the rest of us. Also, consider that there’s a really good reason most professional athletes, artists, performers and entertainers hire and pay big bucks for coaching, consulting, and advice. They all want to be the best in the world!
How about you? What do you really want for yourself, your company, your current team, your family and really, your life? (That’s what your business is all about isn’t it?) Enjoying your life. Having more time. Maybe more income. Creating real wealth so you can retire or sell the business one day. What will it take to get there?
The bottom line is this. Being your own sales and marketing director (for too long) or hiring the wrong people is insanely expensive. (Median salary for a marketing director is $123,144 and $145,151 according to Salary.com.) That’s big bucks for any company. Too big for the vast majority of small companies to be certain.
Every day otherwise successful business owners reach out for help and solutions …