Published in Authority Magazine·Apr 4, 2022Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com: Five Strategies I Used To Grow My Business To Reach Seven Figures In RevenueAn Interview With Doug Brown — The only way to grow a business is to hire the smartest people you can possibly find and delegate to them and take the cognitive overhead off you. As a part of my series called “Five Strategies I Used To Grow My Business To Reach Seven Figures In Revenue”, I…Business13 min readBusiness13 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 22, 2022Nantale Muwonge of Black Girl PR: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started My Consulting BusinessAn Interview With Doug Brown — Separate yourself from all outcomes. All you can do is set your clients up for success, the rest is up to them. Support them, hype them up, help them stay accountable…some of them will be wildly successful, and some of them might not be able to get past what’s going…Business12 min readBusiness12 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 22, 2022JoAnn Gregoli: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started My Consulting BusinessAn Interview With Doug Brown — Discover what your customer is looking for and help them achieve it. Gather information about their wants and desires and you can make their events seamless. Understand their needs, identify their wants and anticipate their needs. As a part of my series called “Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me…Business10 min readBusiness10 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 8, 2022Inspirational Women Leaders Of Tech: Carole Sumner Krechman On The Five Things You Need To Know In Order To Create A Very Successful Tech CompanyAn Interview With Doug Brown — My life has been and continues to be full of obstacles and hard-times, so “never give up” is my motto. I have always believed that, with the right team and tenacity, there is a way to succeed. As a part of our series about strong women leaders, I had the…Tech7 min readTech7 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 8, 2022Cynthia Davis of Incremental Monumental Change: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Began Leading My Company… It is the experiences, the awareness, and the integration of the new awareness and learning that creates the shift. “It is not what you know, it is what you do with what you know!” and, I will add to that: who are you being when you do it. …Business16 min readBusiness16 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 8, 2022Derek Bullen: Five Strategies I Used To Grow My Business To Reach Seven Figures In RevenueAn Interview With Doug Brown — Find and navigate your river of cash. Join a business group to learn what you don’t know. Take an accounting course — a good one — and learn the basics of how to read a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flows. Design your business around the work, not around…Business15 min readBusiness15 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 8, 2022Zeynep ‘Z’ Ekemen of Silver Defender: Five Strategies I Used To Grow My Business To Reach Seven Figures In RevenueAn Interview With Doug Brown — Have a great network. It is a lot easier to open doors for opportunities when you already have connections to that person or company. Never burn any bridges because you don’t know when you might cross paths again. As a part of my series called “Five Strategies I Used To…Business8 min readBusiness8 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Mar 8, 2022Jen Naye Herrmann of The Marketing Greenhouse: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started My Consulting BusinessAn Interview With Doug Brown — You will never be ready, so go before you’re ready. It’s important to be prepared but work towards 80% ready and launch. You’ll never launch perfectly. It’s better to launch and learn. I did this with my first online course. …Business7 min readBusiness7 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Feb 16, 2022Lauren Edwards-Williams of Legend IP Consulting: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started My Consulting BusinessAn Interview With Doug Brown — Don’t devalue yourself. At first, it’s difficult to know your worth and express that confidently, particularly as a young female business owner. I was constantly devaluing myself or just giving work away. …Business7 min readBusiness7 min read
Published in Authority Magazine·Feb 16, 2022Professor Joe O’Mahoney of Cardiff University: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started My Consulting BusinessAn Interview With Doug Brown — Listen to experts. You don’t, can’t and shouldn’t know everything. There’s a lot of free advice on growing consulting firms and a huge amount of literature. Listening also means to your clients. Most founders I coach rarely have a systematic way of listening to the clients’ needs. I don’t mean…Business7 min readBusiness7 min read
