Why did you get into business?

Me, I got into business to

"help people like you get rid of all the boring stuff

we have to do in business

And focus on the things humans do best"

And today I would add "make a fair living while doing that."

For me as a kid (less than 26)

it was:

Travel the world while being able to work from anywhere,

in the world.

I'm Sure

  • Your mission

  • Your values

  • Your Vision

Are different and thankfully so.

So may I ask, .....

What's your Simple reason that makes

  • Your business special

  • What rocks your boat

  • And keeps you going?

And as important

Where do you see you all in five, ten or fifteen years?

  • Parked out on a beach in Hawaii?

  • Scaling to have an impact on the world?

  • Both?

No judgment ... All sound admirable to me.

So, Whatever your answer was

May I ask a simple question in response?

Making Progress...

Is Your message getting in front of Your

  • Most valued future customers

  • Who You Can, Want

    and wish to serve

  • When they are looking for your services

    on fair terms ?

Making Progress...

Why would I ask that?

Great Question, before I answer that,

may I ask an uncomfortable question?

Would you not want to have a partner at your side

on that journey?

Making Progress...

That's committed, clear headed and

who acts fast and slow as needed?

or a bunch of 20 somethings with

the collective experience of a newt?

Or a partner, who does not need their hand being held all the time?

Who's solved your type of problems in the past.

nah of course you don't

I've the feeling you'd prefer the bunch of 20 somethings

they're cheaper,

they're faster,

and you can tell them exactly what we want and they do it.

But, If that's the case

(and you're not going to like this)

Why hire an expert like yourself or a team of experts then ?

And that is what I mean, when I say

I am committed to help those I serve.

And believe I can add value to your business.

After You and I have a conversation and be warned

I will ask a lot of challenging, uncomfortable,

And sometimes difficult questions of you

perhaps a better way to demonstrate ....

Have you ever gotten given an impossible choice in business?

No, of course you

haven't so I'll speak hypothetically

You know one of those situations where the outcomes are uncertain.

The consequences are dire

And its keeping you up at night?

You know when, if you do sleep, it's not

"sweet dreams" rather it's nightmares

from which you wake up in a cold sweat?

Back in 2013,

I got mine, I was to hired to help an SMB

dig itself out of a hole so deep... lets say it did not look rosy.

They had 5 enterprise-level customers who would

not even talk to account managers and one of them

Making Progress...
  • Contracts had been signed

  • Move a Data Centre, agreed

  • All paid for upfront

The figure that kept ringing in my ears was 172.

172 full-time employees.

I knew their wives, their kids, their friends, as I saw it, they were family.

We got to work on the agreed Bank Holiday weekend

All was going swimminly,

we'd planned and practised

the living daylights out of all of it in advance.

But at 1 am Saturday all work ground to a halt.

I got called in to a corridor with some very worried looking people

After speaking to the best tech staff we had

And I asked a fair number of "dumb questions."

I did the back of a napkin math

Making Progress...
  • how long the company's insurance gonna last

  • what will falure look like - how bad can it be

It did't look good ..... what do you think?

The Client vs Us the SMB

  • what would happen if we didn't deliver the

    whole set of stated works

  • Insurance - Minutes vs hours

  • Lawyers with signed contracts vs us in short

    trousers, we did have cover in SoWs legally

    the reputaional damage on the other hand .....

  • Bottomless pockets vs small IT SME

Not a great trifecta (a fancy word for 3)

Since no one else wanted to be the one that shouldered

that responsibility,

I ended up having to unravel a ball of fibre optic cables

lookin like a messy ball of string at 1:30 a.m. listening to a

good friend

light up each end of each cable so we could get at the

piece of equipment that was one half of a redundant

system

that pretty much ran their business out of where it

sat in its snug nest of cables

and moved to its new home a quarter of a mile away.

It took about 3 hours to fix,

which disappeared like smoke on the water

The great team I was working with made up the lost time

and the move was a success after that little hiccup.

Because as with any plan, we didn't see it coming.

Quick Question

Are you always looking to stack the cards in your favvour

when it comes down to it?

And......

Just like Your products or services you offer to your

customers are integrated into their organisation as part of

their teams;

You deliver value by following your values with exceptional

service and product, bound together with your people at

the heart

Nothing more and nothing less.

If that's you, then welcome

If it's not then then I wish you all the best

I do and I live by it

Our Values

  1. We treat everyone we meet like a person we respect

    We have hard conversations as needed

  2. We avoid blaming anyone, including ourselves, it does not help

    solve it and move on

  3. We seek the fastest form of feedback which we choose quickly after consideration

    If it's something that can have a big impact.

    Ask, it's encouraged by everyone!

  4. We ask specific people we respect for feedback, we don't value the advice of those we will never ask advice from

  5. We take ridiculously easy tiny daily actions, and keep going for years, and adapt our actions until we attain the outcome we wished for

  6. We select three people we admire: one; just ahead, one; far ahead, and one; who’s achieved landing on Mars

  7. We watch, think, decide, act, and seek fast feedback to learn one new thing a day, I can use in life

  8. When things get tough, we get curious

    meet face-to-face in private, name the issue, share one specific feeling, one specific behaviour, how it impacts you, and how it might shape our future ((FBI)SF) , then listen closely to understand not immediately ask question


  9. We are accountable for those we lead which begins with each of us between our left and right ears


    Shit happens how we deal with it, is our choice


  10. We choose the wisdom of mistakes, we do it and learn, no one is an overnight master (never seen a 2-month-old that can do somersaults)

    The best people fail and learn, a lot, by doing it fast!

  11. We do not proceed to work

    Without a signed & processed agreement

    And Funds are with us

    We get paid upfront

  1. We get paid for the value we deliver not a price point

  1. We do not fill out proposals handing out the IP of our

best people for free

P.S. The company above got to 12.5 million in managed service

recurring revenue p.a. within 5 years.

My part, I was responsible for for 2.5 of that.

Having a planned social media presence aligned to your

stories, and sales function

Used as a system!

Can transform your business.

Can and do attract your "most valued customers" into your

world and keeps the "bad ones" out, when done right

As Tony Stark said in Averngers: End Game "Its a suit of

armour around the warld", I would say ""Its a suit of

armour around Your world"

But of course I'm just some random guy

who you've never heard of

or his company. The Scaling Game

And You are just on your couch surfing on the Internet

And what I offer is just a shiny new expensive

thing to buy and to top it off

it's a startup!

on the other hand ......

maybe I am who I say I am

maybe it brings in revenue in the form of qualified

prospects without you having to spend days or weeks

chasing them down

or wasting your precious and expensive time

It's really up to you to decide

I am happy either way.

If you want to finally experience the satisfaction

when your social is aligned to your messages and values

to allow you scale, your way, on your schedule

If you want to live the pride of

scaling not just your life and business

AND you want to help others scale theirs too through your

services and products

then.....

Think About Having a natter (Eng. Conversation )

or leave it

OR change nowt (Eng. nothing) And guarented nowt

will change as my grandad used to say

Making Progress...

UK Small Businesses 5M +

2000 UK Businesses are Started Every Week within 3 years 60% are Gone

UK

SMEs

36k

UK

SMEs 36 k +

SMEs Are not Safe based on gov. Stats Less Than 72% Make It to their 10th Year and in this economic climate even less so, do you need to be firing on all cylinders

UK Corprate

<260

The Failure Rate of Large Businsses Is Increasing The Avergage Corporrate Only Remains at the Top for about 15 Years

How It works?

Build Your Social Platforms Using Systems into Your Business to Add Value to You ANd Your Most Valued Clients.

Who Do Then Show the Love!

Still not sure?

My grandfather was a Business Owner himself, My Father and I would disagree.

Some Business Principles are Timeless.

This one is simple:

Technology changes,

Human beings have Not (depending on the study about the same for the last 300k years)

We have been exchanging goods for something for a very long time, And We are Still Making Buying Decisions the Same Way.

Looking To Get Your Business

Back Under

Your Control

Prepared To Use A.I. As Fishing net & System

rather Than a Fishing Rod of Hope

Is that Worth a Conversation?

We Can Help

support@gsrresolutions.com

Legal Ltd Company and owner of The Scaling Game

London, W2 5EJ, UK

Tuesday - Thursday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm UK aka GMT

+44 (0) 7537 141 986

Contact Us

support@gsrresolutions.com

Legal Ltd Company and owner of The Scaling Game

© Copyright 2023. The Scaling Game. All rights reserved.