Richard ToutounjiDirector, Meet Your Network · Connecting fitness & wellness suppliers to our marketing community.

Are you ready to expand to 100 locations?

22 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief video, speaker Richard Toutounji emphasizes that expanding a business to 100 locations requires a fundamental mindset shift rather than a spontaneous occurrence. He urges entrepreneurs to clarify their motivations for growth and to anticipate the significant sacrifices involved. The speaker outlines a progressive scaling path—from a single location to five, twenty, and ultimately a hundred—highlighting the need for deliberate learning, education, and the willingness to unlearn current operational habits. Preparing for these challenges is presented as a crucial component of the growth journey.

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You've got to have a mindset ready to expand to 100 locations. It doesn't just miraculously happen that we go from one and all of a sudden we've got 100 facilities. It's a different concept and it's a different way that we do our business. You need to really think about what do you really want and why do you want to grow? Because there's many sacrifices here that I didn't ask directly, but indirectly that these amazing operators had to go through, many sacrifices. And so you need to be prepared that to go from 1 to 5 to 20 to exit to 100, you need to be prepared for the sacrifices that you'll put into place in learning and education and unplugging what you currently do and moving forward. And that's a big part of the learning growth path.