Hi, I’m Matt Turner! I’m a micro marketing guy from Auckland, New Zealand! I run my own businesses and I also help small dynamic businesses, entrepreneurs and also musicians and talent with an extensive repertoire of online marketing strategies and experience.
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Growing Pains.

Though I’m fairly short at 5′7 I still remember the dull thudding pain you get up your legs and arms as an early teenager, what caused it?

You were growing. And it hurt. You were growing so quickly, that it was actually felt as a dull numbing pain up your limbs.

I have not had an easy time in business. I’ve had an easier time than most obviously because I’ve been able to build on and consolidate my successes, but it has been a lot of hard work and stress. Mainly I see that as the result of my strengths that lie in creative ideas, innovation, and now the strong knowledge and experience I’ve built up in online marketing.

But Management, organisation, customer service - these are areas in which I was not prepared and found myself lacking in when the successes I had in marketing put considerable strain on the ability of my businesses to deliver to a high standard.

In the past, I’ve been quick to write it off as “growing pains”. In the beginning of the year, “growing pains” usually refered to a situation where my cashflow was looking dodgy or holding me back, or a situation where I had to let a client down or miss a deadline would contribute to the performance of my business.

It would hurt, it would be disruptive, but it was the inevitable consequence of growing so quickly and unexpectedly and the result would be that I would be better off in the future.

Now I am experiencing a similar situation, I need to take my business in the direction that’s right for me. At the moment, I’ve been pretty unhappy because I’ve been working too hard. I’ve been making more money than ever before but have been frustrated because even just having a night out puts me behind my workload. It’s amazing that I’m becoming successful it’s just those growing pains there again - I wish I wasn’t growing so fast that it hurt!

And now that I’m bigger, I face new problems. There’s plenty of cash in the business, I can expand capacity to meet a deadline when I’m overstretched, but expanding my staff to a team and my business to a scale that can support them is the next challenge.

Growth is not arbitrary; Until recently I believed I would be happy earning an above average wage, developing a positive image for the work we do, and enjoying my music and other creative projects.

But I’ve been given an opportunity to see how much potential I really have. I see positive things I could achieve with a higher turnover and full time staff other than myself.

Growing and experiencing growing pains in business is not about pursuing wealth anymore; It’s about a commitment to keep doing things positively to the best of my ability.