When businesses are covered in the media, often there is a lot of focus on the initial idea, the genesis moment. Then they almost brush over the middle part – the scaling up part – and arrive at how big and awesome the business is today. It makes for a fun read or in the case of a movie or show an entertaining watch, but it’s also a missed opportunity. The middle part – the scaling up part is where so many small business owners get stuck. It’s the part so many of us need more guidance with and so we wanted to get conversations going on the topic of scaling up.

Caleb Copeland

For me scaling all comes down to one thing in this modern business age, communication. Most people are terrible at it. We answer our phone, reply to emails, respond to DM’s religiously. You will never have to wait on us and you know you can count on us. No one else does that. Read more>>

Sarah Collins

Lucky Locks started out as a journey of a girl who constantly had her eyes peeled for magic and was toeing the edge of burnout from being on a computer for 100% of her job. My name is Sarah Collins and I am the founder of Lucky Locks, a now world-wide community of women who exist to provide the magic that a little every day glitter can bring to people’s days. Read more>>

Jordan & Beni Muffler

Our business is larger, but more so, significantly evolved from when we started. We opened our doors as a Specialty Butcher Shop. We offered fresh, never frozen cuts of beef, poultry, pork, seafood and exotic meats. We also offered ready-made meals and side dishes. We started with a dream, in all honesty. Jordan is a self-taught butcher and chef. He loves to get creative in the kitchen and loves the feedback from happy customers. I (Beni) spent years in retail management and learned the ins and outs of running a business. Read more>>

Priscila Leal-Arizpe

A lot of people think that it is so easy to have a successful business because many hardly show their back story or are afraid of what people will think when they hear their start up story. The truth is, it is NOT easy but it IS worth it in the long run! I started my business 13 years ago, NOT KNOWING I would get to where I am now. Starting up my cake business, I had to save up enough money to invest in materials, tools, ingredients, NOT KNOWING if this business will crash or rise.

Chantal Miyagishima

When I originally started Knitatude over 9 years ago, it really came from wanting to sell my overflow of knitting. It eventually graduated to selling physical items (such as scarves and hats etc) at markets and it blossomed from there. Back in 2017 (after 3 years of selling knits) I realize that I had bottle-necked myself. With not being able to take on additional orders simply because I couldn’t keep up, I was finding myself burnt out and not being able to make more money or scale my business. Read more>>

Sevda Javandideh

The biggest and most important step to scaling up your business is to “believe that you deserve more and that you can have what you want”. Passion and persistency can take you many places and keep you moving forward when others will quit trying, Read more>>