Saturday Growth Series

What is business growth?

A year ago, I started a Saturday morning business series focused on starting a business -- Saturday Startup Series (SSS). I shared each week's post on my Crosscutter Enterprises website on the publications page.

Last week, this series came to an end with the successful launch of your business. Once a business launches, the focus transitions to three things: growing, scaling, and improving the business.

Much like starting a new business, these three areas are equally broad and detailed -- perhaps more so.

Do you have a business growth mindset?

If a growth mindset, in people, is a belief in oneself that your abilities can be developed, then a business growth mindset is focused on the business’s abilities and not a person’s.

A business growth mindset is the belief of a business that it's fully capable of growing and is fully responsible for its own growth.

Sales practices have come a long way, haven't they? Or have they?

Sales, in the beginning, was done through markets and bazaars, where vendors would set up "stalls" to sell their wares.

Over time, established shops became a norm, and some peddlers took to the road with their wares in carts. Then, catalog selling started to take hold.

The first invasive form of sales was door-to-door (D2D) sales, selling vacuum cleaners, cooking utensils, books and bibles, and other household necessities. Over time, all manner of products entered the D2D sales market.