Most people think more revenue equals more success. But in a service business, more clients usually just means more staff and more headaches. If your costs grow as fast as your sales, you do not have a business. You have a high-pressure job. âThe secret to escaping this is Value Arbitrage. âStop selling your labor and start selling the gap between Perceived Value and Actual Cost. âThe Old Way: You sell a service for $1,000 that costs you $500 in manual work. You are just trading hours for dollars. âThe New Way: You provide $1,000 in value using a system that costs you $50 to run. âThis works when you provide assets instead of "work." Think about data, high-volume content, or infrastructure. These are things the market values highly, but technology has made cheap to deliver. âThe goal is to move from a 20 percent margin to a 90 percent margin. You do that by becoming a provider of systems rather than a manager of people. âStop building a company around manual tasks. Start building it around assets that work regardless of your personal hours.