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Scale to Sale

Scale to Sale

By: Scale to Sale Consulting
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Hosted by Mark Crandall, founder of Scale to Sale Consulting, this podcast reveals how to scale your business by turning customers into your best salespeople. Learn the Testimonial Waterfall, a system that leverages client feedback for organic growth. With years of creative writing and SEO expertise, Mark shares top organic marketing strategies on training your customers to sell for you. Get actionable insights on automating operations, growing revenue, and preparing your business for a successful exit—all while working less.Scale to Sale Consulting Economics
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  • Ep. 23: Words That Print Money - Mike Kim on Copy That Opens Relationships and Scales Revenue
    Jul 31 2025

    Copywriting legend Mike Kim joins Scale to Sale Consulting to prove that a single sentence can rescue dead leads, revive ad spend, and build a loyal audience. His viral subject line “Is this the correct contact info?” earned a one hundred percent open rate and sets the stage for a masterclass on words that convert.


    What You Will Learn
    • Why founders who treat copy like “design lipstick” waste thousands and overlook the real leverage
    • Mike’s core premise: every business owner must write daily or watch the brand fade from inbox to oblivion
    • The Five Stages of Buyer Awareness and how to match your message to each mindset
    • Ready-to-use subject lines for problem aware, risk reversal, and cart-close moments
    • The Know → Like → Trust → Try → Buy → Repeat → Refer path and how every sentence nudges prospects forward or backward
    • A real-world case study of Mike turning a dormant blog into a multi six figure personal brand agency
    • The rapid-fire checklist to weaponize your words today: ten subject lines per email, seven word story loops, funnel asset mapping, and longevity metrics

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    43 mins
  • Ep. 24: The VA Flywheel - Barbara Turley on Building a 150 Person Powerhouse and a Delegation Playbook You Can Steal
    Jul 11 2025

    When global lockdowns threatened to stall her agency, Barbara Turley moved one hundred fifty virtual assistants out of a sealed Philippine office in forty eight hours. Ten weeks later the team delivered zero downtime and a spike in customer satisfaction. Today Barbara breaks down the systems that turned crisis into competitive edge and reveals how founders can copy her playbook.

    What You Will Learn
    • Why client and employee longevity is the only metric that really matters
    • The hidden cost of hiring a single overseas assistant without a delegation framework
    • Barbara’s two guiding insights: solve the next problem before it hits and stay inch wide mile deep with focused service levels
    • The Success Triad that aligns owner responsibility, assistant training, and tool stack for clear outcomes, daily communication, and career growth
    • Hiring filters that attract coachable clients and protect economic balance for assistants
    • A myth buster on so called cheap labor and how a small bonus can fuel real upward mobility
    • The quick start delegation playbook to reclaim hours this week: record, document, assign, huddle, measure, repeat.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep. 22: Scaling Purpose: Dr. Carolyn Colleen’s Testimonial-Flywheel Playbook
    Jul 2 2025

    Dr. Carolyn Colleen went from cell-phone rehearsals to NBC, TEDx, and a fully booked keynote calendar. In this tactical chat with Mark Crandall, she breaks down:

    • Crafting a signature talk that planners actually buy

    • Her “home-run then testimonial” trick that doubled her fee in a year

    • Turning every rave review into the next paid stage (the Testimonial Flywheel)

    • Using course and speaking revenue to fund scholarships at Acton Academy Midwest

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    27 mins
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