IKEA’s Acquisition; Spa Saves $300k/mo; Sales Incentives; ScaleUp Summit Streaming

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ScaleUp Summit Streaming LIVE — expose your team to the top thought leaders from the comfort of their desk, conference room, or home. We invite your team to gather together & learn how to do great things in business by viewing, live, all the incredible ScaleUp Summit Oct 17 – 18 speakers & content. Click here to learn more.

How One Medical Spa Saved $300k/month (Gazelles case study) — my latest Huffington Post piece shares how founder Charles Mok DO and his team at Detroit-based Allure Medical Spa worked to save $300k/month. And by retargeting their marketing they are now opening a new location every 90 days. Please take 2 minutes to read how this has all been accomplished – a real and practical scaleup success story. FYI, an Allure team of 15 will be up front and center at the ScaleUp Summit in St. Louis in a couple weeks.

Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete – with the revolution of digital marketing and a customer base so much more well informed than in the past, companies are rethinking their sales compensation plans. This short HBR article does an excellent job in outlining the key questions and providing some practical ideas for adjusting sales comp plans to align with the new realities of the marketplace. In short, notes the article:

Please take 1 minute to scan through the main bullet points of the article if you've been thinking about your sales comp plans.

IKEA Purchases TaskRabbit — it seems all product companies eventually add services and all service companies productize. To compete with Amazon, which is offering delivery and installation services, $36 billion IKEA has purchased TaskRabbit, one of the stars of the "gig" economy and giving it a ready supply of on-demand labor.

City Creek Mortgage — Toby Gale Roberts along with her husband Mike posted the following re: Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) – and I love how they are executing "like a beast." Thank you.

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