SmartMatters 25th November, 2022

Critical Numbers: Make Your Team More Aligned and Effective

At this month's ScaleUp Club we will be looking at pulling our personal and business goals and priorities together to develop one or two critical numbers for each role in our business. The key question and format is very similar to the company priorities and we are answering the question: ‘What does good look like for me in my role over the next 90 days?’ or ‘When we meet again at the end of the 90 days, what has to have happened for me to consider it a successful quarter?’

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You Must Have A Sales Process To Be Successful

In this week's episode of ScaleUp Radio we hear from Nigel, a big personality and a great talker. We have a real practical discussion about sales and growth of your business. Make sure that you have something to take notes with during this conversation - I guarantee that you’ll have plenty of takeaways. In this episode we cover:

• Why you should have an exit strategy in place much earlier than you may have originally thought.
• Why mindset in your business can mark the difference between growth and stagnation, success and mediocrity.
• Regularly re-evaluate who your ideal client is. It most likely will evolve as your business evolves.

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83% of business leaders report increased resilience thanks to peer-to-peer support, according to new research from BizSmart?

The research, which surveyed business leaders who participate in BizSmart?’s dedicated ‘Flight Academy’ programme, also revealed that in spite of the challenging climate, participants had increased profits on average by 19% compared with the year before. This comes on the back of previous research showing 43% had more than doubled their turnover over the last three years.

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Your Growing Business Needs Protection From Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks are potentially ruinous events for business owners. The average cost of a cyber security breach in the United Kingdom is ￡1,010 across all businesses, however, this figure becomes greater as the size of a business increases. The cost of a cyber attack is not only financial, with the average time large businesses spend on managing the impact amounting to 3.4 days, according to statista.com.

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