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How to Scale Up Your Business in Australia


Some small business owners are happy to let their fledgling businesses remain small so they can handle all daily activities themselves. However, others have big dreams about turning them into thriving companies with hundreds of employees and multiple locations.

Scaling up can be a desirable prospect for profit potential, but not every adventurous owner knows what’s involved or how they can ensure a seamless expansion. You might experience success by taking some of the following actions:

Create a Business Plan

Creating a business plan can be an excellent way to start thinking about expanding and scaling up your business venture because it can be your road map to success. Within your business plan, you can outline what your expanded business will look like, who will run it, and even what the supply chain looks like.

For example, if you’re a small beverage company, you might describe your plans to outsource to a contract canning business to increase output. You can also include information about marketing and sales, funding requests, product and service lines, and organisation and management.

While developing an in-depth business plan sounds like a daunting prospect, it can be essential for guiding the way and keeping your business on an upward trajectory. You can also speed up the process by downloading a template from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) website.

Contact Experts

As experienced as you are in running your small business, turning a profit, and maintaining customer satisfaction, that doesn’t mean you’ll know how to plan for growth. Turn to experts who do to potentially improve your chances of success.

Reach out to commercial lawyers to learn more about the legal intricacies associated with your plans and accountants to ensure financial viability. You might even join networking groups to talk with people who have gone through the same process as you to receive helpful advice.

Develop Work Systems

Small business owners typically handle everything from customer service and accounting to cleaning and IT. When you’re expanding your business, your workload grows with it, and managing everything yourself becomes impossible.

As a result, successful scaling involves developing work systems and policies to ensure anyone can run your business – not just you. Employees should be able to pick up a manual or open a software program and know how to balance the books, handle marketing, and maintain high customer service levels.

Start Outsourcing

Some businesses want to remain small enough to retain that valuable ‘family owned and operated’ title but not so small as to rule out profit growth. If you’re in this challenging position, consider outsourcing parts of your business to be able to offer more to your customers without having to hire additional staff in a staffing shortage or expand your premises.

For example, beverage businesses might outsource canning and marketing, while construction companies might outsource building work to contractors. Outsourcing means you can take on more work to satisfy your customers without significantly increasing your own overheads and stress levels.

Scaling up a business in Australia can be daunting when you’re unsure how to get started. However, by talking to experts, outsourcing, developing work systems, and creating a business plan, you might be one step closer to putting your business on the trajectory to growth and eventual success.



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