How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off

Many entrepreneurs find that running a small business differs from their expectations, leaving them stressed, discouraged, and uncertain about growth strategies. In this book, Donald Miller presents a 6-step plan designed to help small business owners achieve dependable, predictable results. Miller developed and tested these steps while growing his own business from four employees in a basement to a $15 million operation, increasing revenue sixfold over six years. He created this book to fill a gap he identified: the absence of a simple, step-by-step playbook for business growth. The book guides readers through six key areas: establishing a company vision with three economic priorities, clarifying marketing messaging, implementing a sales framework that positions customers as central, optimizing product offerings, running a management and productivity playbook to align teams, and using five checking accounts for cash flow management. Readers develop a personalized "Flight Plan" to implement these steps, enabling them to move beyond day-to-day details and focus on activities they find meaningful in both business and life.