Growing and scaling a business is hard and we wanted to hear from business owners who have successfully scaled a business. Below, you’ll find our conversations on scaling with some very talented and insightful folks.

Marley Juarez

Our scaling was challenging. The biggest factor in growth for us is organic word of mouth exchanges. Parents post on community Facebook pages asking for resources and another parent comments recommending Strides. Parents chatting at a T-Ball game start talking about their kid’s challenges and one mom says her kiddo had the same challenges and Strides was helpful. Pediatricians refer kids to us, and at the kid’s next annual physical they hear how much it helped and refer more. But all of those things take time, and there is not much that we can do to “market” to get parents to comment on other parents’ Facebook posts. We focused on getting our name out there. Read more>>

Liane Pensack-Rinehart

I, Liane PR started Colorado Cocoa Pod 6 years ago in March 2019 in the kitchen of my home. I bought my first polycarbonate chocolate molds off Amazon, along with a few bags of chocolate, a scraper, and some sheet trays. This wasn’t my first time working with chocolate, as I had taken a chocolates & confections course while in pastry school and also interned at a local chocolate shop, but it was the first steps I took into making chocolate bonbons on my own with the intention to sell them as a small business. Read more>>

Maraya Hall

Once I started I just loved it and kept going. Read more>>

Ryen Toft

When people see a successful business, they often assume it just “took off” one day. But in reality, Simply Luxe didn’t scale overnight—it took years of refining, learning, and pushing through challenges to build the luxury organizing brand we are today.

When I started Simply Luxe, I was doing it all—organizing, scheduling, marketing, client calls—you name it. I loved transforming spaces, but I quickly realized that if I wanted to grow, I had to think beyond just the work in front of me. Scaling wasn’t just about getting bigger; it was about building something that could run seamlessly while maintaining the high-end experience our clients expect. Read more>>