Explosive Growth

One of the trends I’ve noticed in the different industries I’ve been part of is that growth occurs in waves, not steadily. It’s true that the actions you take on a daily, consistant basis affect your growth negatively or positvely. However, growth itself comes in small and large spurts.

I remember during my highschool years, when I first got into internet marketing, I was able to support myself with one or two great months out of the year. It’s true I still lived with my parents, but I still had bills in excess of $1,000/month plus other expenses that teens spent their money on. During the wild west of email marketing in 2000-2003 anything went. I would find various methods of inboxing ISPs, mostly AOL, and when those loopholes would close I’d move on. This explained the inconsistancy from month to month in my early days. As I got smarter , I began reinvesting all profits back into the company instead of buying the next hot toy. My dreams as a kid was to have the hottest car in the school parking lot to impress the ladies. Well, my senior year of highschool I bought a BMW Z3 for 23K cash. It was a real sick car but not the panty dropper I thought it was. I was still a dork with no social skills.

Anyways, enough of my teen years and back to the point of this post! When you are struggling, don’t be discouraged. Building a business takes time and effort. If you believe in the work you are doing, you will be rewarded. Explosive growth appears in waves. It could be an important contact you made, a presentation to an organization, or some new technology that you have mastered that triggers your growth. Keep up the work and you will experience explosive growth. It’s what you do after those first waves of success hit you that will make or break your company.

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