Stuck at $10K–$30K a month, or wherever your store has stopped growing? That's where our playbook comes in.
Most stores don't stall because the founder stops working. They stall because the business was built to grow one way, by buying more traffic, and that lever tends to get more expensive the harder you pull it. The Scale Playbook is our free guide to the three systems that change that: knowing what each order is really worth, keeping the customers you've already paid for, and taking yourself out of the bottleneck.
What's inside
- A two-minute self-check to find where your store is leaking
- Chapter 01 · The plateau: why growth stalls, and the five levers that move it
- Chapter 02 · Unit economics first: contribution margin, break-even CPA and break-even ROAS, with a worked example
- Chapter 03 · The retention engine: repeat purchase rate, the four email flows to build first, and reviews done the right way
- Chapter 04 · Systems and a lean team: a one-week task audit, one-page SOPs, what to delegate first, and a weekly scorecard
- Chapter 05 · The 90-day plan: thirteen weeks, one system per month
- Four printable worksheets, a glossary and sources
Who it's for
Founders whose store already sells, and who have noticed that more effort no longer means more growth. You don't need a bigger budget to start. You need an afternoon, a spreadsheet and the discipline to look at the numbers you've been avoiding.
Read this too
The playbook is educational. It is not financial, legal or tax advice. Results depend on your product, market, margins and execution, and we make no promise about what you will earn. Numbers in worked examples are illustrative.
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