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Business life cycle

The Growth Stage

This is the point in your business journey where you’ve finished the Entry Stage and have a strong brand identity with a continuous client base growth. Sales are also growing and the company is beginning to break even. Your business plan starts to take shape, the company’s market position begins to solidify and your customers are able to convey your business objectives to other potential customers. Consumer demand is formed and increases throughout this stage and the business sees increased sales, profit margins, and a market is developed.

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The Expected Challenges

Main Competitors

The business owner should be well-versed in his or her business operations as well as its main competitors. As your company grows, more competitors become aware of it. You must start implementing approaches and strategies to keep ahead of the game.

Idea Overload

New ideas that are implemented may make or ruin you. Having too many ideas might be harmful to your company. You may get overwhelmed and have difficulty deciding what to do as a result of their overabundance of ideas.

Operational Infrastructures

You might want to put some of your present operational infrastructures to the test to see if it still supports the growth opportunities available to your company. You might want to look at changing practices that don’t fit the growth of your company.

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The Area of Focus

New Territories

It is critical to thoroughly research new business areas in order to develop your business. Kind in mind that not because certain strategies have worked in the past does not imply they will work again.

Full Capacity

Your business is fairly new so it is not at full capacity. Your business has a lot of opportunity to develop, a lot of potential friendships and relationships to form, and a lot of capacity for new things to explore.

Additional Help

In production, manufacturing, operations, and sales, more support is usually necessary. You should consider assembling a team by employing qualified individuals to handle specific activities within your company.

Continuous Growth

As a business owner, you should devote attention to everything that helps your company flourish while anticipating any roadblocks. You may need to consider new approaches to engage with your consumers and sales.

The Plain Truth

You don’t have the associations, audience, or tribe in place to support what you do. You may be experiencing a lot of success, but you’re not quite there yet. It’s tempting to become comfortable at this point, thinking that you won’t have to work as hard to run the business again, but nothing could be farther from the truth. At this stage the most challenging difficulty for entrepreneurs is dividing time among a slew of new demands that need attention, managing increasing amounts of revenue, catering to consumers, dealing with competitors, accommodating a growing workforce, and so on.

The Way Forward

Now is the time to start focusing on your market niche or specialty. To put it another way, start saying no to unrelated business opportunities and stay focused on what you’re doing, with whom, and for what. Begin to consider providing supplementary or supporting offers. The offer might be a product, an add-on to the product, or a service that complements your primary offering. Your business will benefit from the inclusion of supporting and complimentary offers. In turn, you will see a natural rising consumer engagement spiral.

Keep your initial business concept in mind at all times. It’s easy to lose sight of your company’s primary value when there are so many opportunities in the market. It is not unusual for a company to entirely modify its solution as soon as its clients begin to like them. This is why it’s critical to maintain a customer-facing and customer-focused attitude. You want to push your company to its boundaries so that you can see what serious issues need addressing during the Maturity Stage. It’s easy to stagnate and stop growing if you slow down when you’ve got momentum and initiative; momentum is one of those things in life and business that’s hard to obtain and easy to lose.

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The Next Step

When market demand surpasses your capacity to fulfill, you know you’ve advanced to the next stage. Whatever you’re doing is working, you can’t do anything else, and there is so much potential for your company that you don’t have the infrastructure, people, or procedures in place to manage them long-term. When this occurs, you are propelling from the Growth Stage to the Maturity Stage.

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