Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar

Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s a mind-bending journey that causes millions of business owners around the globe to either throw in the towel—or avoid risk entirely and suffer from smallness and mediocrity.   Most of these businesses fail because they are ill prepared to face the real challenges involved in scaling. Either they don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with the sales demand or production, miss out on major opportunities due to fear, or keep making the same mistakes over and over because systems and processes aren’t in sync with the rate of growth.   To truly scale, you must upsize your strategic practices, implement new marketing strategies, find new ways to build your team, and expand your mindset to break through whatever is keeping you stuck at the same level. Then you must be willing to take the leap into the giant unknown – to make your impossible possible. In Scale or Fail, author Allison Maslan—who has successfully scaled ten companies from scratch and has guided thousands of small businesses to do the same—shares her revolutionary SCALEit Method ® for successfully growing, replicating, and expanding your business. She also shares pivotal mindset strategies she’s used to break the fear barrier as a trapeze artist so you can move past any obstacle, take strategic Big Picture risks, and fulfill your dreams of business expansion and skyrocketing profit.   Featuring a wealth of real-life success stories, visual tools, and exercises that are prescriptive and inspirational, Scale or Fail offers proven scaling strategies and a proactive approach to: Create your Big Picture Vision and build a plan to achieve it Produce an ever-flowing stream of cash flow with consistent profits Establish a powerhouse team that functions well without you Become a true leader and feel like you deserve your success Improve systems and processes that facilitate scaling Get past the mental and strategic pitfalls that cause revenue bottlenecks   Scale or Fail is adaptable to any type of business—manufacturing, consumer goods, a brick and mortar, a digital service, a wholesaler, a consulting service, and everything in between. Whether you’re six figures and scaling to seven. . . or in the seven figures and scaling to eight or even nine, Scale or Fail provides the roadmap to multiply your business growth—and empower you to soar in the air with the greatest of ease.

Table of Contents:
How This Book Is Different xi Foreword by Christina Rasmussen xiii Introduction 1 It All Starts with the First Leap 19 Your Strategic Vision 33 All Things Cash Flow 57 Alliance of the Team 97 Leading Your Vision 129 Executing the SCALEit Method 147 The Healthy and Wealthy CEO 175 Money and Mindset 195 Conclusion 211 Putting the SCALEit Method into Action 221 Acknowledgments 223 About the Author 227 Index 229

About the Author :
ALLISON MASLAN is the CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, a Business Mentoring Company where she and her team support CEOs, founders, and their leading executives to scale. She is the author of the number one bestselling book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality. Allison has built ten successful companies from the ground up starting at age 19. She is also executive producer and host of her own video podcast, Allie & You, The Business Success and Lifestyle Show.