7 directions for scaling a business. What every manager should know

Main subjects

Scaling your business and yourselfBusiness scalingLoveTCThe clientF/Friend / friendsCustomer acquisition

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Alexander Volchek, entrepreneur
• 00:30A message to every manager
• 04:20My experience: how I arrived at these ideas
• 06:02What are the seven areas?
• 07:24First area of attention: marketing
• 08:38How this works in Silicon Valley
• 12:29Differences in marketing
• 14:12Second area of attention
• 19:09Third area of attention
• 21:57A real-life example
• 23:06Fourth area of attention
• 23:35Fifth area of attention
• 25:10Sixth area of attention
• 27:30GPTs and AI: handling finances properly
• 30:11How to count money
• 32:20Seventh area of attention: personal development

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• 02:06

  Every entrepreneur, every manager, every person who wants to build a business has their own next step. It's always individual and different. Each person has their own.

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• 08:58

  Yet take the Valley, Silicon Valley, where I live. It's an interesting place: the southern part of San Francisco, considered the San Francisco South Bay, in California, the state of California.

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• 16:56

  We recognized at one point that we needed this company's solution, but by 2020 I decided to remove it from a different organization, GeekBrains, because I saw that a different CRM system was needed there.

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• 20:56

  Because I often say—I like saying—that it's better to complete three hundred out of five hundred tasks than ten out of ten.

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• 27:22

  In fact, I definitely want to make a video about it and will do so in upcoming videos, because we've now made a few cool apps within OpenAI's ChatGPT.

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• 28:51

  My partner and I keep realizing that for all the decisions we could make—practically all of them, ninety-nine out of a hundred—we need to rely on a proper financial reporting system.

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• 31:07

  A female friend of mine has a husband who's starting a business and has been developing it for a long time.

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• 37:39

  I've always said a good manager understands all eight areas and knows roughly 120 success factors across them.

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• 38:09

  Why did I say at the start that you can't know everything at once or learn it in one Reel, Short, ten-minute video, hour-long video, one course, or even one, two, or three years?

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• 39:07

  So that over time you can encounter new knowledge—sometimes through one short video or a long one—that, right at that moment, especially now that you've watched this to the end, lets you find something for yourself.

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