Resources to run a better business.

You’ve heard a lot about GROWTH, our new business operating system, in the last few weeks. Today, I want to lay out exactly what the GROWTH journey looks like from a client’s perspective.

While there are ways to increase revenue and improve profitability that aren't directly tied to client acquisition, the lion's share of growth strategies involve getting more paying customers through the door.

When you’re an entrepreneur, you don’t just build a business once. You build your business over and over again as you grow. Every time your company enters a new growth stage, there are new lessons to learn.

If you haven’t heard by now, there’s big news here at Crews Consulting Group. We built a business operating system. The business operating system, like many other best business practices, originated in the manufacturing industry, halfway around the world.

You’re a person, a physical, mental, emotional, social, and even spiritual being. Hobbies. Activities. Meeting up with friends. Remember that pre-pandemic life you led? It’s time to get back to the business of being you.

To understand why we chose to leave EOS and build our new business operating system, GROWTH, instead, you have to go back to how this whole thing began.

“How fast should the business be growing? I get this question from entrepreneurs all the time. We’re a competitive group by nature, and we want to have benchmarks to set ourselves against. We want to know what our peers in other companies are doing—and then we want to do just a little bit better than them.

As entrepreneurs, we often hear that success comes from creative thinking. If we want to rise above the competition, we’ve got to think outside the box.

I never learned to swim. Looking back, I suppose it seems odd. I grew up in Maryland, but we didn’t live on or even near the water.