These Books Are All About Scaling Your Business To Six Figures
If you’ve ever dreamed of taking your business from a low-earnings side hustle to a legit six-figure brand, these books offer the road maps you didn’t know you needed. The process isn’t all aesthetic planners or being booked and busy. Scaling your business — which involves applying strategies to sustainably expand your customer base and revenues over time — can definitely feel like an uphill battle for many entrepreneurs.
According to the Fed’s 2024 Small Business Credit Survey, only half of employer firms reported annual revenue between $100,000 and $1 million. And specifically for women entrepreneurs? It’s even tougher. A recentQuickBooks report found that just 46% of women-owned businesses earn $50,000 or more each year.
That’s why these reads hit different. They dive into mindset, money confidence, and strategy, in order for you to build sustainable, scalable growth. From understanding your profit margins to mastering delegation and automation, to inspiring you to push past obstacles, each book helps you move from doing it all to “leading it all.
Kathryn is a vet in the VC, tech, and entrepreneurship advocacy spaces. She’s the founder of Genius Guild, sold her first seven-figure startup, and knows more than a thing or two about thriving and combining experience, street smarts, and boardroom-ready wisdom for building your business on your own terms.
Patricia started her career in finance, built a social media empire with millions of followers and lucrative brand deals, then launched her own platform for financial empowerment. This one’s for the side-hustlers who turned passion into something bigger, and she offers tips and anecdotes within three major pillars: your brand, your business, and your beliefs.
Diane founded and serves as chair of the major global e-commerce platform DHgate Group, and she’s the cofounder of a super-successful B2B e-commerce site Amazon China acquired in the early 2000s. Her journey through global business and inner alignment teaches resilience, radical self-belief, and strength you find from within in order to hit the six-figure mark and beyond.
The former Georgia House minority leader and founder of several companies and nonprofits wrote this book with her business partner, Lara, and it’s the perfect read for getting the behind-the-scenes business growth from small beginnings. (If overcoming debt and still running for office, shutting down business due to low cash flow, and still triumphing to the tune of millions of dollars in seed funding by revamping and relaunching, doesn’t show resilience and scaling skill, what does?)
Kathleen, founder and CEO of Grayce & Co, has managed hundreds of millions in marketing dollars and invested in startups. This book blends mindset shifts with practical business skills in a blueprint for scaling both a business and a life that’s ideal in running it.
Dr. Hardy, a noted organizational psychologist, and Erickson, co-founder of ScaleMo and Scaling.com, teamed up for no-excuses guide to ditching incremental growth and actually scaling by setting bold goals, establishing systems that multiply, and shifting your mindset to stop playing small.
