{"id":606,"date":"2022-12-05T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:16:04","slug":"are-you-scaling-or-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/are-you-scaling-or-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Scaling or Growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freelancers - Are You Scaling or Growing?\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xzmFDMcevDc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you actually scaling your business or are you merely growing it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s how to tell the difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See if you are indeed scaling your business as the business grows, as you take on more projects, your time as the entrepreneur, as the leader actually becomes more and more available, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your time is no longer tied to the growth of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, it&#8217;s decoupled if you&#8217;re growing your business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, as the business takes on more projects, more clients, your time becomes more and more tied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You become more and more stressed as your business grows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you want to actually scale your business, you have to learn how to decouple those two things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have to learn to remove yourself from having to fulfill every piece and every component of every project that comes in the door.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when you do that, you will move from growth to scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you truly want to enjoy your life as an entrepreneur, you have to move beyond growth and you have to move into scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let me know in the comments, are you growing or are you scaling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u270c \u2764<\/p>\n<p>wayne<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; 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