49 episodes

Welcome to Scaling With Deasha. The podcast for entrepreneurs scaling their business to six figures and beyond without the hustle and the overheads.

This podcast is for you if you're looking to scale your business and hit those next target goals for yourself.

I'm going to share the ups and downs and the ins and outs of scaling a business. We all know it's not a straight line. Being an entrepreneur is tough and there are roadblocks and cliffs and things to climb and hurdles to jump over.

I want to show you all of the steps I've gone through and break down the inside of other people's businesses too so you can understand not only my journey but the journeys of other people that have been there, done it, and managed to scale their business.

Scaling With Deasha Deasha Waddup

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    • 5.0 • 6 Ratings

Welcome to Scaling With Deasha. The podcast for entrepreneurs scaling their business to six figures and beyond without the hustle and the overheads.

This podcast is for you if you're looking to scale your business and hit those next target goals for yourself.

I'm going to share the ups and downs and the ins and outs of scaling a business. We all know it's not a straight line. Being an entrepreneur is tough and there are roadblocks and cliffs and things to climb and hurdles to jump over.

I want to show you all of the steps I've gone through and break down the inside of other people's businesses too so you can understand not only my journey but the journeys of other people that have been there, done it, and managed to scale their business.

    Ep 48: Contracts You Need To Have In Your Business

    Ep 48: Contracts You Need To Have In Your Business

    Shahara Wright is an experienced and highly sought-after business law attorney and business strategist. She is the author of From Entrepreneur to CEO and host of the CEO Collaboration Circle. Shahara founded Contracts Done Wright to help entrepreneurs and business owners have more access to contracts and business forms to help their businesses thrive. In this episode, we dive into the contracts you really should have in your business!
    Shahara is USA-based so we do talk about contract law in that country but these contracts really should be covered in any country you reside in.
    If you would like to access Shahara's 8 step guide then head here: https://theceoeffect94751.activehosted.com/f/15
    Here are the highlights:
    {00:49} Tell us more about you
    {1:23} What does that look like in terms of legal needs? How often do people need you? How does that look like?
    {1:23} What made you get into this realm of work in the first place?
    {5:12} How did you grow your business?
    {6:36} When did you transition to moving things online?
    {11:53} What do we need to have in our business as we start to scale and what should that look like?
    {16:08} Privacy policy, what else do we need?
    {18:18} Cookie policy, what do you think about that?
    {20:08} When do you need these policies?
    {22:50} What else do they need?
    {31:11} When you draft these contracts for a client, do you draft them based on a template or do you draft it fresh with all the information from the client?
    {37:37} Is there anything you want to say that you hadn't had the chance to say yet?

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    • 38 min
    Ep 047: How To Get Your Website On Google With Ross Dunn

    Ep 047: How To Get Your Website On Google With Ross Dunn

    Ross Dunn is the leading authority in marketing your website! Since 1997, Ross has been professionally navigating the online world. Creating visibility, traction and conversions using his Signature 7 Step Process. Ross’s full focus is on getting Google to know, like and trust your website. Specialising in serving small and medium-sized businesses, Ross has become known as a leader in marketing and growing your online business. We dive deep with Ross all about what you can start to do right now to grow your business presence on google, how to start making your website look less like a brochure and more of a converting machine! 
    Book a discovery call with Ross here: http://link.stepforth.com/freestrategycall 

    Or check out his podcast here: https://www.SEO101Radio.com  

    Here are the highlights:
    {1:22} Where did it all start?
    {4:20} How has it evolved over time and how did you keep up with the changes?
    {6:06} What was it really that has helped you scale your business?
    {7:23} Just do your best and deliver
    {9:21} How did that come about?
    {11:00} Talk me through a marketing concept of getting on top of Google, how do we do that?
    {11:41} It is a process
    {12:12} How are our competitors, getting there?
    {12:22} We dismantle their marketing and we're looking at every aspect of that
    {12:36} We put a strategy together
    {14:06} Whatever you're putting out there - your content, visibility, persona.. is authoritative.
    {15:06} Intelligence gathering is #1, optimisation is # 2, ads is # 3, #4 is authority building, #5 is social outreach playbook, #6 success tracking dashboard
    {19:29} Tell me about your success tracking
    {21:33} The last one is results accelerator
    {24:50} Google does reward you for providing more value
    {29:05} What does that timeframe look like to you to optimise everything and get them out there?
    {30:44} The average site, it's gonna take 3-6 months to see significant improvement if your business model is good.
    {34:56} With working with you, do you need to do redo the whole website or can you work with whatever they've got built at the moment, or does it need an overhaul tweak?
    {39:49} Is there anything you came to say that you didn't get the chance to say that you think everybody should know?
    {40:14} A good company's trying to help you, not trying to take you
    {40:58} Just do some homework and look after yourself
    {42:03} What does a strategy call look like for them?

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    • 43 min
    Ep 046: How to Find Your Next Client

    Ep 046: How to Find Your Next Client

    If you have had some success in your business but need to start finding your next client now! Then you need to grab a pen and start doing these things. We dive into how you can review your business and build a strategy to implement and get your next client. In this episode, I don't give you a specific strategy instead, I share with you how you can find your own unique version of the strategy. 
    If finding people in other people's Facebook Groups has worked for you in the past but you need to build out a better strategy to do it then you need to join the masterclass happening on the 16th March: https://deashawaddup.com/adc-greenmasterclass/ 
    If you would like to get involved and be featured in the next episode of Scaling With Deasha then submit your question here and make sure to include a plug for your business! https://www.speakpipe.com/scalingwithdeasha 
    Connect with Deasha at www.deashawaddup.com
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    • 16 min
    Ep 045: How To Save $96k In Tax This Year With Tiffany Phillips

    Ep 045: How To Save $96k In Tax This Year With Tiffany Phillips

    Tiffany Phillips is not your typical accountant - focusing only on accounting and taxes. In this episode Tiffany shares her incredible entrepreneurial rollercoaster journey, from launching a business and getting $126K in debt to forming a partnership that broke down until she finally embraced her natural talents. Tiffany now specialises in helping her business-owner clients reduce their income tax liability by $97k on average by utilising proven, audit proof tax reduction strategies. She shares some of the ways you can start to implement these right now! *This is USA Based tax and not suitable for UK tax. Book in a discovery call with Tiffany here: www.tiffanyphillipscpa.com  
    Here are the highlights:
    {1:08} Tell me how you got started
    {6:40} What are some of the lessons you learned in that year where that business failed that would help somebody who's doing that at the moment?
    {9:07} Do the thing
    {9:30} What was the switch when you finally used your talents and you were like okay fine, the universe, I'm listening. What happened then, how did you scale your business?
    {11:55} Then I started out on my own, that's when I started specialising in tax saving strategies, tax planning, tax reduction and that is the point when things really started taking off.
    {13:45} Making those changes was really I would say, one of the biggest differences in business and really learning about myself, figuring out areas I needed to change
    {15:12} How can you save $96k on tax?
    {19:58} Arm yourself with knowledge
    {20:16} Paying your kids tax-free
    {22:48} How many entities can a business have?
    {24:42} What sort of things can we claim back that maybe entrepreneurs haven't thought about?
    {27:58} When should they start thinking about tax planning and making sure they're efficient with their taxes?
    {31:25} Is there anything else that you think people should be aware of to help them with their tax reductions right now?
    {35:40} Do they need to fire their accountant to work with you?
    {36:45} Is there anything that you think that people need to know that they haven't heard today?
    {38:00} What do they need to prepare?

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    • 39 min
    Ep 044: How To Find Leads Without Paying For Ads

    Ep 044: How To Find Leads Without Paying For Ads

    Everyone I speak to in the online space is always looking for leads, in this episode we talk about the ways you can find your perfect leads that are ready to buy from you and bring them into your eco system without paying for ads.  If you want more information about how you can start to do this in your business then join the masterclass happening on the 16th March!  https://deashawaddup.com/adc-greenmasterclass/ 
    Here are the highlights:
    {1:20} What is a "lead"?
    {2:12} A lead is an individual or organization with an interest in what you are selling. The interest is expressed by sharing contact information, like an email ID, a phone number, or even a social media handle.
    {2:29} Where do you find leads without paying for ads?
    {2:36} Your ideal client/leads as a whole human - what else are they interested in and where do they hangout?
    {3:18} Sales Cycle and where people are in their journey to connecting with you
    {4:10} Connection in an online space is a very rare thing
    {4:48} Focus on that connection piece to build those leads
    {5:00} You wanna make sure you're showing up consistently where your ideal clients are
    {5:56} The element of just being yourself
    {6:34} Show genuine interest
    {7:30} Be active, be consistent, be human and show genuine interest
    {8:10} Make sure you love your ideal clients
    {8:48} Show up and give massive value
    {10:00} Giving massive value is going to help you uplevel yourself

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    • 12 min
    Ep 043: Build A Wealthy Business Rather Than A Cash Generating Business

    Ep 043: Build A Wealthy Business Rather Than A Cash Generating Business

    Anwin is a wealth strategist and genius when it comes to setting up your business not only to generate cash but to really generate wealth in your life. She is passionate about helping women to set up businesses that provide a wealthy lifestyle with strategy and systems to optimise the money that is coming into your business. 
    You can take Anwin's quiz here: www.wealthfluency.com/wealth-booster-quiz 

    Or sign up to her group program here: https://wealthfluency.thrivecart.com/c2p-mastery/ 

    Here are the highlights:
    {1:33} How did you get into this field?{
    3:45} The only way to build wealth is not business
    {4:15} Everyone has multiple sources of income
    {6:10} How should we be structuring our finances to become more wealthy?
    {7:58} What is your definition of wealth?
    {11:10} Take the word wealth and what does it mean to you?
    {12:23} Let's start with a 6 figure year, what is the best way to set up our businesses from a financial perspective to be able to maximize that money and turn that into wealth?
    {12:52} Pay yourself
    {13:43} These are the five places you need to split your money out into: your pay, your taxes, your profits, your operational costs, and then the last thing is expense
    {14:20} By taking all those elements out first you know that, you've got only got this amount of money left on expenses
    {17:00} The struggle that I saw when COVID first hit, a lot of people had income-generating businesses, it allowed you to pay your bill, full stop and that was it
    {18:00} How much of a budget do you think people need?
    {20:16} When you talk about forecasting, what does that really mean?
    {26:45} You make more money doing what you do
    {27:35} What do you need a wealth strategist for? What exactly do you do for businesses?
    {28:13} Dig deep to go high
    {29:30} Your system should always complement your process
    {31:05} Look at your taxes and exit plan
    {36:13} It's about sustainable Wealth
    {37:40} Wealth Afluency Quiz
    {40:50} What I want to impart  

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    • 41 min

Customer Reviews

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Lee - Video Production Academy ,

Full of value!

It's great to listen to a podcast that is designed for the listeners. There's always so much to learn and then implement for the Video Production Academy. After all, education without implementation is simply entertainment.

So - listen, learn and implement!

Nette - Empowered Human Design ,

Great & engaging content!

Value packed episodes for business owners on all levels, including those starting out, delivered in an engaging and accessible way.

Robin Waite, Fearless Business ,

Fab Podcast!

Deasha is a fab host, great guests and the conversation flows quite naturally, which makes for brilliant content and all the guests drop such amazing value. Great listen.

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