629: How to Grow Your Business, with Donald Miller

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Donald Miller: How to Grow Your Small Business Donald Miller is The New York Times bestselling author of Building a StoryBrand and Business Made Simple. He has helped thousands of businesses grow with his powerful framework. In 2010, Don started the business he’d always dreamed of. Although his business was doing ok, he quickly realized it wasn’t what he thought it would be. Everything depended on him, and he was drowning in the mundane day-to-day. For years, his business struggled to produce dependable, predictable results. Over years of fits and false starts, Don grew his business from nothing to nearly $20 million. In the end, he realized there were six key parts of a business, and if they were managed well, the business would fly far and fast. He’s captured those lessons in his book How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off*. A huge percentage of businesses fail before they have any significant success. One key trigger is failure to market the business effectively. In this conversation Donald and I discuss how to power the marketing engine of your business by using the key elements of the StoryBrand framework. Key Points Most small businesses think more about how their marketing will look rather than what their marketing will say. People are attracted to what helps them survive and thrive…and it helps to communicate those message simply. People buy products and services to solve problems, not because they care that much about the business. The customer is the hero. Never play the hero; always play the guide. People who are insecure talk about themselves. People who are confident talk about others. Talk about yourself only in the context of how it helps the customer. Resources Mentioned How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off* by Donald Miller Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes Serve Others Through Marketing, with Seth Godin (episode 381) How Leaders Build, with Guy Raz (episode 491) How to Quit Bad Stuff Faster, with Annie Duke (episode 607) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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0:00.0	A huge percentage of businesses fail before they have any significant success.
0:05.3	A big reason is marketing that doesn't work.
0:08.8	In this episode, Donald Miller joins me to show us how to power the marketing engine
0:13.9	of your business.
0:15.4	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 629.
0:19.8	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:28.2	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:31.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovjak.
0:35.9	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:38.4	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:44.1	One of the most important considerations for leaders and organizations of any size is
0:49.3	how to continue to grow the organization, and particularly that's important in the mindset
0:55.2	of small business leaders.
0:56.9	How do you effectively grow your organization, helping to lead marketing and sales efforts
1:04.2	and to do it in a way that's authentic and genuine?
1:06.9	Today, I'm so glad to welcome someone who's absolutely an expert on this, going to
1:10.8	help us to really put on our hats of growth and marketing particularly through the lens
1:16.8	of small business.
1:17.8	I'm so pleased to introduce to you, Donald Miller.
1:19.8	He's the New York Times best-selling author of building a story brand and business
1:24.1	made simple.
1:25.2	He has helped thousands of businesses grow with his powerful framework.
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