Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 & Start the Business of Your Dreams, 2nd Edition

Chapter 5. BUILDING ON SUCCESS

Right, you've got the business going. You understand your market and how to reach it, but you're still not able to find an exit strategy that will make you your first million. Perhaps the time has come to press down on the accelerator and grow the business. In this chapter we'll look at how our business snowballed, what we learnt during that phase and the following key issues:

• Expanding premises-based businesses

• Hiring the best people to assist with the management of the business

• Motivating the people who deal with your customers

• Mixing and matching appropriate management styles

• Presenting your business as substantial, not an upstart

BUILDING FAST

If you've really got your garage-based business making money and you're ...