1143. The Five Reasons Your Business Isn't Growing as Fast as It Should

When your business is not growing as fast as it should, the temptation is to look outward for the reason.

It's the ads. The team. The market. The algorithm. The economy.

But in almost every case, it's' something else. 

In this solo episode, Kelly breaks down the five core reasons business owners tend to allow complexity into their businesses, and why eliminating it, not adding to it, is almost always the fastest path to growth. Drawing from her work helping entrepreneurs implement the Miracle Hour and what she has observed in the businesses growing fastest right now, Kelly unpacks the patterns that are silently killing growth across the online business space.

From the impatience that causes us to layer more onto things that would have worked if we had just let them play out, to the comparison that gets us on board with strategies we never should have touched, to the lack of self-trust that has us bouncing between paths that were never meant to look the same — this episode is equal parts business strategy and leadership philosophy.

It is also one of the most important episodes Kelly has recorded this year. Because the same things that must be present to keep a business simple, courage, conviction, self-trust, and faith, are the exact same things that are required to scale your sales.

Simplicity scales. Complexity kills. And this episode will show you exactly where complexity is coming from and how to stop letting it in.

Timestamps:

00:45: The three core things standing in the way of rapid business growth

05:30: Why there is nothing that will slow you down more in business than attempting a shortcut

06:30:Why adding more marketing to a broken conversion system just gives you a bigger broken conversion system

09:00:The difference between trying to get more traction on social media and building a system to convert social media visibility into real revenue

10:30: Comparison, and why it is sneakier than most people think

12:30: Why complexity happens when we say yes to too many things, and why sometimes the most powerful growth strategy is knowing what you will not do

14:00: Why asking why three times reveals a completely different root cause than what appears on the surface

16:30: The most unsexy business proposition on the planet, and whyit is actually the root cause solution most businesses are missing

18:00: Why most business owners believe more leads will solve their problem, when they actually have a conversion problem

19:30: How conflicting feedback from multiple sources keeps businesses stuck in circles

21:00: God isolates you before he elevates you: why your path is not meant to look like anyone else's and what happens when you try to change it so that it does

22:00: How self-trust, faith, and self-leadership fuel both business simplicity and sales growth (and why the same things required to keep a business simple are the same things required to scale it)

Resources:

Join The Virtual Business School: https://www.virtualbusinessschool.com/virtual-business-school 

Order The Miracle Hour book on Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Z6iunb

Grab Kelly's book Bigger Than You: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building an Unstoppable Team: https://a.co/d/0510sP0s 

Subscribe to Kelly's Substack: https://kellyroachofficial.substack.com/subscribe