{"id":3353,"date":"2020-11-17T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativethirst.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2021-06-12T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T21:26:58","slug":"scaling-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativethirst.com\/blog\/scaling-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling a Business Selling Health Supplements Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling a business online is very popular in the health supplement industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online supplement marketers love to think in terms of scale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s talked about at inner circles, masterminds and conferences all the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how do you do it? What key pieces do you need to have in place before you can scale? And what does it actually mean to scale online?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of our supplement clients have scaled at breakneck speeds, often because of optimization we\u2019ve helped them with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling your supplement business is possible but it\u2019s also tricky if you don\u2019t know what to watch out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But first\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What does it mean to scale a business?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The definition of scaling a business is really straight forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling is basically increasing in size.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Size, in the case of supplement businesses, is net profit and life time value (LTV). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different business owners think in different terms. Like scaling sales through conversion optimization or scaling traffic through more visitors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end profit and LTV are what really matters when trying to scale your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What you need to know when scaling a business?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A business can scale traffic, by getting more visitors to a sales page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or it can scale sales by getting more people that visit a sales page to buy through conversion rate optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both however go hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With so many different perspectives of scale, sales, traffic, etc. it makes it seem a bit daunting at first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there are only really two ways a business can scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vertically and horizontally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can scale up traffic vertically by increasing your ad budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or you can scale out horizontally by broadening your reach across audiences and hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people just think of the first kind of scaling a business. Scaling vertically with more traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, you should do both and I\u2019ll tell you why. But first what do I mean by horizontal scale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling out horizontally is typically easier than scaling vertically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling a business horizontally can happen in two ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first way involves adding different audiences to your ad traffic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second way is to find different hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both ways work together to successfully scale businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With horizontal scaling you\u2019re broadening the scope of who your supplement is for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you have learning\u2019s through split testing and optimization. You\u2019ll know what works for what audience segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can then scale vertically with each horizontal segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What do you need before you can scale a business?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you can scale a business or a funnel, you first need to have a few things in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When focusing on scaling vertically you need to dial in your ad campaign in a single advertising channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your key performance indicators will tell you that you may be onto something ready to scale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there are some ad sets and campaigns that are profitable on day one. That\u2019s a sign it\u2019s time to increase the budgets for those ads if you can scale them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all likelihood, you\u2019ll break your ad campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And they will almost always break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meaning they will slip in profitability on day one. That\u2019s okay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game you\u2019re playing is pull on one string and another pulls back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why a\/b testing is a consistent thing you never want to stop doing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the fastest way to get those strings back in line again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because any time to increase volume (more people) than data will change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling horizontally makes sense when your campaign is experiencing ad or audience fatigue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In which case, horizontal scale becomes your best friend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horizontal scaling means testing new hooks and angles. At most this requires a new big idea and A\/B tests around everything that ties into the big idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the very least this requires new ad creative, just to measure clickthrough rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then move to testing a new headline and lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horizontal scale also means testing new audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To try to find different types of people that find your offer appealing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people simply widen the top of the net at the ad campaign level but that\u2019s not what works most effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A better approach is to take your existing health supplement and change who it is for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many supplements have a wide audience already and are either going too broad or making it work by narrowing down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, a way to horizontally scale would be to take your supplement and market it to a different group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have a sleep supplement, you can scale it horizontally by creating a dedicated landing page that sells sleep just to moms. Where all the sales copy talks directly to tired moms who\u2019ve spent all day taking care of everyone else but themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally horizontal scale can also come in the form of testing different types of ad creative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example taking your ad creative and creating different formats of it, like video vs. image only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would even go so far as to say you should be horizontally scalling all the time. Even before your&nbsp; metrics begin to take a dip.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling horizontally early on mitigates the inevitable decline of all campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Avoid these business scaling mistakes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one thing no one tells you is that scaling a business is froth with pitfalls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no other way to scale because it\u2019s not a linear path.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling is a constant push and pull along the way to more sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you scale traffic you pull in more people and they don\u2019t always behave the same way, so you start to see a dip in your conversion rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why constant A\/B testing is so important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if that was the only pushback against your pull, you\u2019d be lucky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The common advice is to wait on increasing your ad budget until your conversion event gets to 300 conversions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scaling traffic before this leads to wonky performance and really screws up the data engine of the traffic source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get more people to your landing page you need to increase your ad budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you do that too fast, your ad campaign could go back into the learning phase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resulting in a performance hit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best way to scale budget is slowly. Increasing no more than 25% each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Horizontal scaling mistakes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to avoid just turning up the faucet on ads, is to scale your ad campaigns horizontally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horizontal scale means adding different audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding them as new campaigns is the best approach there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with more audiences, you\u2019ll have more to manage. Be sure to not over extend your management capacity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s only so much you\u2019ll be able to keep an eye on at once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people lean towards automation to help solve this problem but you have to be careful not to optimize too early with automated rules.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though many ad platforms push you to do this. You don\u2019t want to add too much complexity because then you won\u2019t know what\u2019s working once things break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not knowing what\u2019s working limits your ability to scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another scaling mistake most people overlook is outside of the ad platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is in the area of logistics and inventory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aligning your fulfillment and supply chain with expected demand will save you from crashing and burning once you do scale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not really a good problem to have when you\u2019re scaling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think about it. You\u2019ve been scaling horizontally and vertically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slowly ramping up your spend 25% each time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\/B testing landing pages, offers and checkout flows and just when your ad campaigns are starting to get traction&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or worse once they have traction. You are forced to put the breaks on because you can\u2019t fulfill orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of the ad algorithm learning\u2019s go away in an instant put of smoke.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worst thing you can do is stop an ad campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What scaling tactics should you employ?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that you know what to avoid, let\u2019s close this out with some quick scaling tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have a funnel that\u2019s working one quick thing you can do is to duplicate your ad sets that are working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By duplicating the good ad sets, you\u2019re telling the ad algorithm that it\u2019s doing a good job, keep looking so you can find more profitable ad set pockets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the traffic side duplicating the ad set is a good idea along with doubling down on the budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of our supplement clients are spending five or six figures a day on ad spend when in hyper growth mode.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe second quick scaling tactic is to use alternative bidding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaking up your bidding strategy sometimes forces the algorithm to find another profit center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One quick way to do this is to simply double your ad budget over a couple days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t let the ad algorithm get comfortable.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t be afraid to break what\u2019s working.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don\u2019t you\u2019ll never push beyond your limits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is your supplement business ready to scale?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This advice is not for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"supplement start up (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/creativethirst.com\/blog\/supplement-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\">supplement start up<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breaking your ad campaign, navigating through ad creative fatigue and audience fatigue\u2026 All of these things will happen to you as you scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no way to scale without some damage along the way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even with a conservative approach of increasing your ad budget by 25% every 3 days, you\u2019ll have some dips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the nature of scaling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if you can get through the dip and optimize along the way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can scale to more buyers and bigger 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Online supplement marketers love to think in terms of scale.&nbsp; It\u2019s talked about at inner circles, masterminds and conferences all the time.&nbsp; But how do you do it? What key pieces do you need to have in place before you can scale? 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