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Let me ask you a question. Would you raise two children the
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same way you'd manage a classroom of 20 children? Of
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course not. With two children, you know everything that's
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happening. You can have individual conversations. You
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can adapt to each personality. You can make decisions
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quickly. But put 20 children in a classroom, everything
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changes. You need structure, processes, rules,
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communication, consistency. Now imagine running
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an entire school, hundreds of students, multiple
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teachers, different year levels, different classrooms.
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At that point, no amount of good intentions keeps everything
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running. Systems do, and marketing is exactly the
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same. One of the biggest mistakes I see business owners make
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is assuming the marketing strategy that helped them open their
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second location will somehow get them
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to 20, and then 200. It won't, because
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every stage of growth demands a completely different way
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of thinking. At two locations, you need a blueprint. At
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20 locations, you need a system. At 200 locations,
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you need an ecosystem. Miss that transition and
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growth becomes a whole lot harder than it needs to be. Today,
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I'm going to show you exactly what changes at each
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stage. Because opening more locations isn't what builds
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great multi-location businesses, building the right marketing for
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each stage of growth does. Welcome to The Marketing Factory, where
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we don't blend in. I'm Marisa Candy. founder and recipient
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of Gold Stevie International Business Award, among many
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others. And for over two decades, I've helped businesses think
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differently about their marketing and achieve powerful results.
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In this podcast, I'll share proven strategies so that you
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can create profitable marketing campaigns that drive real
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impact for your business. Ready to become impossible to
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ignore? Let's get started. Let's start with location number
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two. At two locations, you're still parenting the business.
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You know almost every customer. You know your staff.
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You know when something isn't quite right. You can
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make decisions over coffee. This is the blueprint stage.
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You're no longer proving your business works. You've already
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done that. Now you're proving it can be repeated. And
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here's where so many businesses get it wrong. They simply
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copy-paste. Same logo, same ads. Same
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promotions, different suburb. Then they wonder why
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the second location isn't performing like the first. Because
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what made your first location successful probably wasn't
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just your marketing. It was you. your
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relationships, your leadership, your decisions, your
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experience. If everything that makes your business successful still
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lives inside your head, you don't have a
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scalable business, you have a successful location. This
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is the stage where you need to ask yourself, what makes us
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different? What experience do we want every
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customer to have? What does our brand stand for? What
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should never change? This is where you build your
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blueprint. One brand. One customer journey.
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One tone of voice. One visual identity. One
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marketing playbook. One campaign calendar. Because
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every location you open from here should be built from
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the same plans, just like building a house. You
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don't redesign the foundations every time you follow the blueprint. then
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something interesting happens. You grow. Five
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locations, 10 locations, 20 locations. You're not
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parenting anymore. Now, you're teaching. And
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anyone who's ever worked in education knows teaching one
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child and teaching 20 children are completely different
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jobs. The same is true in business. At
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20 locations, marketing isn't getting harder because you're doing
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a bad job. It's getting harder because complexity has
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arrived. Hello? Every location has ideas. Every
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manager has opinions. One location wants to run a local promotion.
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Another wants to discount everything. Someone thinks they
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should change the logo. My favourite, someone
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else has decided that Comic Sans deserves another chance.
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And before long, everyone's doing marketing, but
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no one's building the brand. And that's when customers
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start noticing. One location feels premium, another
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feels cheap. One has great social media, another
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hasn't posted in months. One team are actually following
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the campaign, and the other does their own thing. So,
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from the customer's perspective, it feels like 20 different
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businesses wearing the same uniform. And this
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is where successful businesses stop relying on people and
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start relying on systems. Brand guidelines, marketing
