The Business Operator
Wondering what kind of content and events you need? Find out on this page by seeing if you fit the Business Operator Definition.
Who Is A Business Operator?
Definition:
A Business Operator is the primary force driving a team working towards fulfillment of a company vision. This may be a dedicated team of contractors, but usually includes a mixture of contractors and employees. The Business Operator is wearing multiple hats inside the business and could not afford to be replaced at fair market rate without the business crashing, additionally there is rarely enough full-time work under any individual hat to make it worth outsourcing.
What's Next?
"Isn't that exhausting?"
Yes! Very few people want to stay in the business operator role long-term, due to its exhausting nature. Most Business Operators are actively working to graduate to Business Owner.
But if you're finding yourself in this category, you're not alone, and you're actually in a fantastic place! While the Business Operator often deals with added stress from juggling multiple positions and business needs for growth, it's not the end of your business journey!
Your next goal? Business Owner.
Resources to Support Growing Business Operators
Common Business Owner Challenges
Pros and Cons of Being a Business Operator
Pros
- Eventually able to make more take-home money than the Job Owner
- Can take short breaks and the company still makes money!
- Finger on the pulse of the company
- Able to be highly reactive to situations inside the company & out
- Ability to outsource
- Team to rely on & brings additional skillsets
Cons
- Can only afford to take short breaks from the business!
- Must learn to balance profit and company needs and separate profit from paycheck
- Where most businesses get stuck because the owner/operator never has time for working ON the business!
- Hard to find solid resources because the needs vary so much based on size!
- Constant juggling of multiple hats can be exhausting or leave one job ignored
- Business is not often sell-able
How to Grow: Courses and Content
Being a Business Operator isn't comfortable, but it's a good place to be because it means there's a light at the end of the tunnel!
We're here to help you get to it.
The Done-For-You Marketing Plan
Pulling together a comprehensive marketing plan can be daunting and time consuming - a resource that is often in short supply for Business Operators! We'll take the stress out of researching & designing the perfect marketing plan for your business and industry so you can stand out & grow!
The Marketing Engine Igniter
Interested in learning the intricacies of why marketing works and building your own marketing muscles and plans so you can be the dominating Chief Marketing Officer of your business? This six-week course + mastermind was designed for you!
The Workcation
The Workcation is an extremely intimate, weekend retreat in a luxury setting, complete with a private chef and onsite access to a celebrity entrepreneur who guides attendees through personalized exercises & content to help them continue growing!
The Grow Retreat
The Grow Retreat is an invitation-only two-day retreat hosted in San Antonio TX every year. Our speakers AND our attendees are carefully screened to create an atmosphere that is truly unlike anything you've experienced before...
Want to know how we’ve consistently sold tickets to live events, through a pandemic?
Grow Disrupt has been nominated to the Fast Company's Innovation By Design awards for our marketing initiatives and has consistently sold tickets to live events throughout the pandemic!
Get the Four Questions our founder asks when marketing our events every. single. time.
Growth Through Marketing
Business Operators often struggle to create growth because of a lack of cashflow, I. E., Sales.
To support your sales system, it may be time to level up your marketing!
Great marketing starts with a spark...
Spark your own creative marketing ideas with four thought-provoking questions to shift how you approach your marketing, and three impactful action items to create traction in your marketing!
Common Business Operator Challenges
And How to Overcome Them
Branding
Unprofessional brands cost companies the high-end clients that make bulk, profitable and long-term orders. We know because we've lived it. When you have a professional looking brand, it gives you an edge and allows you to…
Charge More for Your Product/Service
Attract More Clients
Attract Higher-End Clients
When we tightened up our brand at Grow Disrupt and worked on elevating it, we tapped into all of those benefits and our revenue and efficiency began to rise. So we got Stephanie to write down five keys to determining whether or not your brand looks unprofessional and if it’s time to fix that!
Boundaries
Boundaries!
Are they something you should even establish in business?
Isn't the whole goal of business to keep clients? Won't boundaries push them away?
These are all questions we've heard time and again from business owners with hearts of gold (Which is 99.99% of business owners...!), which is why this is such an important page for you to understand! To address these concerns, we had Stephanie sit down to discuss business boundaries.
