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  • A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off
  • By: Donald Miller
  • Narrated by: Donald Miller
  • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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How to Grow Your Small Business

By: Donald Miller
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For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They’re stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives entrepreneurs a 6-step plan to grow their businesses so they produce dependable, predictable results.

Using the exact steps you’ll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn’t exist. Until now.

In this book, you’ll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them—your Flight Plan. When you have a completed Flight Plan in hand, you can stop drowning in the details and spend more time doing the things you truly love—in your business and your life.

In How to Grow Your Small Business, you’ll learn how to:

  • Cast a vision for your company that includes three economic priorities
  • Clarify your marketing message
  • Install a sales framework that makes your customers the hero
  • Optimize your product offering
  • Run a management and productivity playbook that aligns your entire team.
  • Use 5 checking accounts to manage your cash flow

If you’re ready to experience freedom, flexibility, and growth for your business, How to Grow Your Small Business is the book you’ve been waiting for.

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©2022 Donald Miller (P)2022 HarperCollins Leadership

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Great for practical learners

Listened to this on Audible. Got a lot of value from the accompanying work sheet to do list.
There is some overlapping from some of the authors others books, but I think that’s pretty normal.
I think a great read for small businesses owners with some great actionable tasks.

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I definitely got my value but it's about repeat

I got a ton of value from this book. Most of it coming from the colour section. But, I felt some of it was a little lazy, being a big portion of a repeat of Story brand

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  • Marco Randazzo
  • 12-04-23

Applied everything here, also on business made simple course and story brand book and my business grew

My business grew because I grew and became a better business owner, better communicator, better copywriter, and because I understand what my customers really want and how to position my services as the solution to their problems.


I have read more than 1000 books, this one is between the best 10 business book ever.

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  • Charly
  • 06-06-23

Great Read

Perfect book to scale any business. Many game-changing resources included in the promoted website.

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  • Jessica Merrifield
  • 02-06-23

Mini Small Business MBA right here

Great work. I’ve owned a successful small business for over a decade. This book will help me double my revenue. Thank you.

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  • Colin Boyd
  • 22-05-23

My new favorite biz book

Donald’s style is so simple and easy to understand which makes everything more applicable. This book gave me an incredible level of clarity. I know that with some simple tweaks it will dramatically increase revenue, profit and peace of mind. Thanks Donald.

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  • Terrance Hutchins
  • 21-05-23

Great read

Very simple and actionable items for your small business. Definitely worth the time and money.

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  • Shelly
  • 19-05-23

Highly recommend for business

I love the consistent analogy to an airplane and a business. It all has to work together and Don presents in a clear and practical story. Am implementing the principals as we speak.

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  • Addison Roberts
  • 13-05-23

It was good but leans more full on business than side hustle

This is the first time I have felt like Donald Miller’s books didn’t hit dead center for me. I really loved business made simple, building a storybrand, and Marketing Made Simple. This book felt like it was more for a functioning, small business owner, who is leading the small business as their full-time job.

As a freelancer, making less than 20 K a year, a decent chunk of the book simply didn’t apply to me. That’s fine, but if you are a freelancer, reading this review, deciding if you should buy the book, I would go with one of the other ones that I listed first. The benefit of this one is that he revisits some of the concepts from the other ones, in a way that is a little more clear and more actionable. However, the product optimization section is excellent for anyone.

My only other criticism would be that this book feels more lead generator like than anything else. Donald Miller has created.

It just feels like he wrote the book to push people towards the six week challenge or the subscription platform. Part of what made building a storybrand great was that it was an end in its own right. I am not sure if this makes sense, but they were parts of the book that felt almost completely designed as a step in a funnel.

When I went to use the online tools that were created to go along with it, you have to pay to export.

Again, this isn’t a killer because you can do everything without paying for the platform and the platform probably doesn’t exist or without the ability to monetize it, but it was a little disappointing.

All in all, a good book. But I was very excited for it And felt like it was probably my least favorite thing that Donald Miller has created.

With that said, Donald Miller is among the best business authors out there and is able to condense information into clear and actionable steps. So despite being Donald Miller’s worst, it may be one of the best business books.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 12-05-23

Concentrated

I liked the overall principles and the simple scheme the writer provides. However, I think he should've expanded on some of subjects more. The book ended without me even realizing.

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  • Susan Gordon
  • 11-05-23

My favorite book on business

Read for instant applicable and actionable insight for new entrepreneurs or seasoned business owners. Truly my favorite book on business. It’s simple, straight-forward and chocked full of wisdom. I am usually an audiobook lover, but got so much out of this book that I bought the hard copy to refer back to. Think of it as a reference book for systems and stability for structuring your small business.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-05-23

Amazing

Super clear cut and is shown to be the fruit of someone who has been in the trenches of building a small business.