Who's got your back in Business?
Ian Luckett
IT & MSP Business Growth Expert - Helping MSPs get to £1.0m or if already there, go faster to £5.0m ?? | Leadership & MSP Business Growth Coach|
Do you sometimes feel alone in business or do you have someone else who keeps an eye out for you and is on your back?
LinkedIn - Meet Barney ! Our 11 month old springer spaniel.
In this photo he is just checking me out to make sure that I am putting my shoes on so he can go and terrorise the Bedfordshire countryside on his morning walk ??
And this inspired me to share with you, that in our experience at IT Experts, we know that there are two types of IT & MSP business owners in life, and this short article may help you understand why your business may not be growing as fast as you want and why sometimes it just feels hard work, AND more importantly what you can do about it??
First we have “The Loners”
These are the Owners who think it’s best to go it alone in business and believe that they can solve all the issues themselves, as and when they arise.
Generally they work very long hours, struggle to delegate to their team, rely on the referral phone to ring and do the same thing every day expecting a different result!
(By the way that’s the definition of Madness!)
They work well on their own, because they want to keep all their trade secrets to themselves, because otherwise their competition will copy them and this will lead to them going out of business in a heartbeat. Hmmmmmm ?????♂?
QUEUE RANDOM DOG PHOTO OF A HAPPY LONER SPANIEL
Then you have the Go Givers and Collaborators
These guys want EVERYONE to win!
They look after each other and understand that there is more than enough business to share around, a bit like why 3 estate agents all line up in a high street and still run successful businesses.
They network and collaborate with other Business owners because they know that there is not ONE person who holds the key to business growth success.
They “Have each other’s backs” - just like Barney !
Years ago and like many business owners, when I started out I joined my local BNI chapter and this taught me the whole Go Giver concept! Which is life changing!
Along with this great Zig Ziglars slogan that I live by every day...
3 years ago we developed the IT Experts concept and now we run successful business growth Programmes and training specifically designed for IT, MSP and Service Based Tech Businesses using our very own operating model, the Profit Builder System...(because we know how you guys are wired)
It is amazing fun, doesn’t feel like work, because I get to build peoples confidence, teach new skills that end up changing peoples lives - AND they pay me to do it!
What a great business model ??
Everyone who comes into our world, has similar Values, yep you guessed it , because we all want everyone to win.
If you are still reading to this point and are in the Go Giver and Collaborator camp, AND you quite simply know that you need a hand or a critical friend to check out your business strategy, then I invite to move one step closer to getting that business and life that you desire.
We are super proud of our Mastermind Training Suite in Luton and also the inordinate amount of tech I have managed to “justify” to create a world class hybrid communication experience.
AND I want to invite you to come and see it and check out how we can help you build that profitable IT & MSP Business. The way we do this is via our Mastermind Experience Events.
These are FREE taster sessions, where you can come and see our model in action, meet up with me in person, test us out and see how our programmes are quite simply like nothing else out there.
Our next session is next Tuesday and I would love for hot come an experience our experience .
You can learn more by clicking HERE or the image below.
Never the less, wherever you get support from, the most important thing is that you GET HELP!
Building businesses is hard work and even harder on own.
If you can't make the next event and you want to have a chat anyway, the just let me know and book a space in my diary for an intro call - link is below.
Have a great weekend and I look forward to connecting with you soon
Cheers
Ian
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4 年Well thought out article. It's very true that the go givers and collaborators come out on top.
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4 年I like the analogies of liners and go givers. I was just trying to work out where I!sit in those terms. Great article.