E29: The Four Pillars: Marketing, Finance, Sales, and Operations

Dr. Jean, The Results Queen® discusses the four pillars of business success: marketing, sales, operations, and finance. Dr. Jean emphasize that marketing should build awareness and engagement with ideal clients, and sales should focus on nurturing leads through the sales funnel. She stresses the importance of branding, hiring a CFO, and having good financial and operational processes. The key message is that business owners should regularly review their performance in these four areas and get help to improve any scoring below 80%.

Key Takeaways:

  • Building Awareness: Marketing should build awareness and engagement with ideal clients, not just focus on paid ads.
  • Separate Marketing and Sales: Separate marketing and sales functions, with sales focusing on nurturing leads through the sales funnel.
  • Personal Branding: Coordinate personal branding of employees under the main firm brand.
  • Hire a Fractional CFO: Hire a fractional CFO to help with financial strategy, trends, and running the business.
  • Review Performance Quarterly: Review performance in marketing, sales, operations, and finance quarterly and get help for any areas scoring below 80%.

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Mindset:

Being able to navigate the mental obstacles that occur in business growth is what differentiates those who are successful.

  • Right Thoughts
  • Right Attitude
Expansion:

What gets measured gets done. Having a few simple metrics will propel your business growth.

  • Right Metrics
  • Right Acceleration
4 Pillars of Growth
Alignment:

By knowing your ideal target client like a science project and speaking to them with the right messaging, you will attract your ideal client faster and easier.

  • Right Client
  • Right Messaging
Accountability:

Creating a customized process that builds confidence is the only way to drive business growth.

  • Right Actions
  • Right Time

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