Episode 303: Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business (FS303)

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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How much growth is enough? Can you keep your company at an optimum size? What is the perfect size for you?

A bigger business is not always a better business. And, keeping things on the right level is almost always preferable to precarious growth. If you can stay profitable, why would you need to keep growing to some imaginary and mostly arbitrary standard?

In this episode, we are going deep on the idea of how to make sure your business gets to and stays at the best size for your needs. We are talking freedom, consistency and the phases of growth that you will experience.

Today on the show, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author, designer, podcaster, online course teacher and software creator. Paul’s latest book, Company of One, is the jumping off point for today’s discussion and he does a great job of unpacking his philosophy for all of us.

We also talk about impacting one person through your business, remaining mindful of your successes and priorities, considering the lifestyle implications of your choices and filtering your decisions with your purpose.

So for all of this and more, join us on the Fizzle Show today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Paul’s first, second and third books. [0:05:24.3]
• The electro shock experiment. [0:10:45.8]
• Increasing freedom and maintaining profitability. [0:15:04.5]
• The phases of growth and being mindful of enough. [0:20:35.7]
• Servicing yourself and customers by staying manageable. [0:25:30.1]
• Impacting one person through your work. [0:30:02.7]
• Paul’s experience publishing his Sunday Dispatches. [0:36:40.9]
• Paying attention to the audience that you have already accumulated. [0:40:20.4]
• A commitment to your audience through consistency. [0:43:45.7]
• The most useful question Paul has ever asked his audience. [0:47:40.5]
• How much is enough? Renegotiating your relationship with work. [0:51:01.3]
• Paul’s parting advice for getting it right for yourself. [0:54:15.7]
• And much more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:07.0	What's up everybody? Where are you right now? Are you in your car? What are you in your car?
0:16.0	What are you doing? Are you running? Am I in your earpods? Are I my in your Apple AirPods? Double
0:21.8	tap on the left one for Siri? You can set that up and customize that yourself. Do you know that?
0:26.4	What are we got some Bluetooth headphones going on? What are you listening to right now? Where are you?
0:30.6	How's it going? Are you on your way to work? On your on your way home from work?
0:35.3	Are you on your way to the cafe to sneak in some time to work on
0:38.8	your business away from your day job during your lunch break or something? Like, where are you? What are you
0:43.6	doing? I don't know. I'm just glad you're here. Not only because I'm a commensurate attention
0:49.6	whore, but also because you are trying to do something that matters. It is, it is, it better, it better
0:58.0	matter for you. You are likely trying to build something that you can believe in, that you can
1:04.0	count on to sustainably keep your head above water. You know, you can't, you can't, like,
1:11.6	I was just talking with a friend earlier today,
1:13.2	and he was like, you know what,
1:14.0	you can't decide if you're going to be rich or poor.
1:16.4	You can't just, like, make that decision
1:17.7	and just make it happen necessarily.
1:19.6	But you can decide how present you are
1:23.1	in any given situation.
1:24.3	That was what he was talking about there.
1:26.3	But what I'm talking about here is you can decide,
1:29.4	you can decide if you're building towards something.
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