Simon Severino is the CEO of Strategy Sprints, Europe’s leading remote Growth Advisory. The 34 Certified Strategy Sprint coaches do only one thing: Double the revenue of service-based businesses in 90 days. Simon also teaches Growth Strategy in select business schools and hosts the Strategy Show podcast.

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Strategy Sprints – Double Your Revenue In A 90-Day Strategy Sprint!

Find Out Your ROI – Get a 15-minute exercise with 31 questions that will help you identify your bottleneck.

3 Value Bombs

1) Your business will likely fail, even if you have a great solution, because technical evolution is going fast.

2) Make things simple and fun for your business.

3) Focus your time. Take the 15-minute bottleneck analysis with your team, bring your team together, and tell them what the team’s focus for that week is.

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Show Notes

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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: Double Your Revenue in 90 days with Simon Severino

[1:23]  – Simon shares something interesting about himself that most people do not know.

• He slept with his mouth taped shut for a year to get rid of snoring and to enhance his recovery after hard training

[2:47] – Simon believes in the concept of falling in love with the problem, not the solution.

• Your business will likely fail, even if you have a great solution to it, because technical evolution is going fast.
• You will be substituted by history if you fall in love with the solution.
• Keep improving and sticking to the problem.

[4:40] – Simon talks about the phrase – “Entrepreneurs do not rise to the level of our goals, but fall to the level of our systems.”

• Return On Luck – some people just transform more of the same luck and same opportunities that everybody has, but they transform more of it by executing more.
• Choose to have great systems every day rather than reaching a great goal.

[9:00] – Simon talks about the need to cut your list in half.

• Make things simple and fun for your business.
• Core Values of Strategy Sprint:
  • Focus
  • Freedom
  • Flow
  • Humble
  • Hungry
  • Happy
• FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Success

[12:18] – Simon tells a story about taking the most direct path.

• You have to make dozens of decisions every day and you have to do it with momentum.
• Keep the momentum and work with somebody who can do a quick calculation for you.
• Take the most direct path.

[14:51] – A timeout to thank our sponsors, ZipRecruiter and Scaling With Systems!

[17:36] – How to you double your sales conversions in 90 days?

• You can double your sales conversions in 90 days by checking the Strategy Sprints Website and getting a Sprint Coach.
• Whatever business you have, start thinking of the current need – even in these hard times.
• Have your service or business adapt to the current need, and improve it every week.
  • Write down the current need.
  • Write down your current value chain.
    • Awareness, Nurturing, close opportunity, closing, fulfilling, retaining, up-selling, and cross-selling.
    • Write down what the need is, what to get, and what to build next.

[20:21] – How do you identify your top bottleneck?

• Simon will be giving away the Complete Bottleneck Analysis free of charge for Fire Nation!
• Find Out Your ROI – Get a 15-minute exercise with 31 questions that will help you identify your bottleneck.

[21:11] – What does it look like to solve one bottleneck after the other?

• Doing too much in advance will not get winning results.
  • You have to pick one.
  • Identify how to pick one.
    • Find Out Your ROI – Get a 15-minute exercise with 31 questions that will help you identify your bottleneck.
    • The first 30 listeners will get a 45 minute personal Bottleneck Analysis with Simon.

[22:53] –  Simon’s parting piece of guidance.

• Focus your time. Take the 15-minute bottleneck analysis with your team, bring the team together, and tell them what the teams focus for that week is.
• Find Out Your ROI – Get a 15-minute exercise with 31 questions that will help you identify your bottleneck.

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