My $1,000,000 dollar plan
Intro
This is the first in a series of posts outlining a plan to build my business to $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue.
Over the past few weeks I created a plan to go from:
- My current situation - between $100,000 - $200,000 ARR, with no sales or marketing systems in place.
- To my target - $1,000,000 ARR with exact sales and marketing systems in Place.
- by identifying the obstacles and bottle necks and creating a step by step plan to solve them.
I will share as clearly and as simply as possible:
- the exact theories and systems I use;
- how I implement them; and
- the results and mistakes along the way.
Why did I do it?
- My product has improved greatly over the last 2 years but I feel like I’ve been treading water with no plan or systems in place to grow the business.
- I think we’ve been conned by hustle culture to be busy, busy, busy. The more I stop and read the more I realise the importance of stepping back and thinking, coming up with a plan and a why before doing something. Tim Ferriss calls it “front loading thinking”, which I like.
- I want to document the process to help others learn and to look back on.
What did I do?
I started with an hour and a half interview of myself to work out (as mentioned):
- the current state of the business;
- where I wanted to go with it; and
- what obstacles were in the way of getting there.
Off the back of this I created a goal and an exact plan of how to get there over the next 3-5 years.
I’ll be sharing the full plan over the next few weeks and the results over the next few years.
It follows roughly this order:
- Introduction - this post
- How it started - a strange interview with myself
- Creating goals - the exact goals and maths needed to get there
- The basis for the plan - a detailed breakdown of Alex Hormozi's systems and a roadmap based of them
- My plan - apply the roadmap to my business and creating a specific roadmap
- The process - a brief discussion on how I intend to execute the plan
Why you might care
3 reasons:
- You’re an early stage entrepreneur - I share information on:
- how to get off the ground;
- start making more that $100,000 dollars year; while
- arriving at a place where you have time, location and financial freedom.
- You’re in the process of building/growing a business and you want to learn from real life experiments, successes and failures.
- You generally want to follow the journey and see if I succeed or fail.
Over the next 5 posts I’ll share all the information and theory regarding the plan, and the exact plan itself.
Then over the course of the next 3 - 5 years I’ll share the results, mistakes, changes, failures and successes.
Wish me luck…or don’t 🍀