Exciting opportunity for small to medium business owners employing 5-30 team members. Are you ready to learn, grow, and invest in your ongoing development? Don't miss out on our latest podcast featuring a special guest who shares invaluable insights for business success. In this episode, Troy asked Chris Mirabile, the founder of NOVOS based in Melbourne, Australia, the final five questions: What do you think Chris thinks is the most challenging part of growing a small business? According to Chris, the competition in small businesses is the hardest thing to deal with. He therefore places a strong emphasis on the necessity of being quick on your feet, incredibly strategic, and thinking about how you may outpace, outgrow, and finally take first place in the space. Chris’ favorite business book is "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Roger Wayne. However, he highlights the significance of discipline, and focusing on the big picture and the nitty gritty, small picture as well, such as being involved in the day-to-day as well. Chris believes that listening to many podcasts that cover a subject or problem you're facing and then seeking highly rated podcasts that have addressed that subject has a significant impact on your professional development. It is frequently good to listen to those and other business owners and learn how they have dealt with problems in order to ignite your creativity for how you will deal with a similar problem. Chris suggests that mastering customer relationship management (CRM) is a useful tool for small business success. Like if you could increase the size of your database of clients and prospects. And after that, you can give those folks extremely useful material, which will help your CRM grow and bring in more money. Finally, if Chris could go back to day one of starting out, he would advise himself to just take it a day at a time, the best way to actually succeed is to not think ahead of all of the challenges and the stressors that might come to you. Book a 20-minute Growth Chat with Troy Trewin to see if you qualify for our upcoming course. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your small business to new heights!  Enjoyed the podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes or your preferred platform. Your feedback helps more small business owners discover our podcast and embark on their business growth journey. ? ___________________________________________________________________________ Quotes: “Be hyper-focused on the consumer, listen to them, and what they're telling you rather than what you think they want.” —Chris Mirabile “Focus on the consumer. And that goes beyond simply the marketing, it goes to the product development.” —Chris Mirabile “When things change so rapidly and you have to adapt on the fly, you have to be very agile.” —Chris Mirabile “Going through challenges is helpful when you get through it, and you'll end up in a better place.” —Chris Mirabile “Even if you have a vision, start with the simplest aspect of that, put it out there, and see how the market responds.” —Chris Mirabile __________________________________________________________________________