{"id":705,"date":"2023-01-31T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:35:29","slug":"growth-vs-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/growth-vs-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth vs. Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can either have growth or you can have control, but you can&#8217;t have both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see, I love this quote as an entrepreneur because it reminds me that I have to be willing to let go of things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have to be willing to let go of control of things in order to grow my business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember for the longest I would struggle because I wanted to review every proposal I wanted to review literally every email that my team would send out because I wanted it to be perfect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to ensure that they were living up to the reputation that I&#8217;d set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But here&#8217;s the thing about this quote, it forces you and me as entrepreneurs, it forces us to put systems and processes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forces us to teach our core values to our team so that we can ensure that as we let go of control, that they are building our business and that our business is able to grow, and so that we don&#8217;t become the stumbling block, we don&#8217;t become the threshold, the glass ceiling that holds our business down.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can either have growth or you can have control, but you can&#8217;t have both.\u00a0 You see, I love this quote as an entrepreneur because it reminds me that I have to be willing to let go of things.\u00a0 I have to be willing to let go of control of things in order to grow&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/growth-vs-control\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growth vs. Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[34,14,31,23],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Growth vs. Control - Ugly Mug Marketing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Freelancer. 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