How Do I Grow and Sell More Product Without Overwhelming Myself (and Compromising Quality)?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of AskPat 2.0, I talk to Sarah Murphy of Alchemilla, who's trying to grow a business and sell more product without overwhelming herself. She's come up with some amazing recipes that help people get out of pain, and she's been getting traction with one of her products, sausage tree cream. (It's a real thing!) She also accepted an invitation to do a speaking engagement, and then—bam!— her one-woman production making cream in her kitchen was suddenly overwhelmed. More time in front of her computer. Less time foraging in nature. She wants to help as many people as possible, but what kind of growth fits with Sarah's vision?If you enjoyed today's episode and you love the format of this show and helping other entrepreneurs, can you help me convince others to listen, too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating on Apple Podcasts (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to me, so thank you so much!Buy my new book, Superfans! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Ask Pat.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:10.9	What's up everybody, Patlin here, and welcome to episode 1,120 of Ask Pat 2.0.
0:17.0	You're about to listen to a coaching call between myself and an entrepreneur just like you.
0:21.9	And today we're speaking with Sarah Murphy, who has a website called Alchemilla, like alchemist,
0:28.0	because she's an herbalist.
0:29.6	And she's discovered some amazing things that could help for skin care and eczema and eczema,
0:35.0	you know, like skin conditions, right?
0:36.5	And she's come up with these amazing recipes to help that really actually help people,
0:41.0	that remove pain in their lives.
0:43.2	And she wants to grow this business.
0:44.8	She wants to scale, but she also wants to keep doing the thing that creates the product
0:50.6	and not just sort of be a people manager.
0:53.4	And so how do we scale? How do we manage our
0:55.4	supply chain as we scale? Yet how do we make sure that we don't compromise the quality and affect
1:01.8	what the product does to the customer and all that stuff? Like she feels like she's the only one that
1:06.8	could do this. And that's often a case where you're growing and you're doing well and this could
1:11.1	either work for you or it could burn you out. So we got lots to talk about today. And again,
1:16.0	our website's Al-Kamela, A-C-H-E-M-I-L-A dot com. Just check out the show notes on Aspat.com and we'll
1:25.5	point you in the right direction. And you're going to hear about something called the sausage tree today.
1:30.3	I didn't know what it was until I looked it up and it's not bad.
1:34.7	It actually helps a lot of people.
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