You don't have a growth problem...
You have a planning and business model problem.
a couple days ago I asked this community what your plans for growth was.
Most of you said hire a team or book more calls.
But consider...
That plan or strategy isn't yours.
We've been told thats what we NEED to grow
from people building businesses that we don't actually want.
❌ Hire the team.
Revenue goes up.
Cost goes up faster.
Payroll is a certainty.
Revenue is a maybe.
$30k months at $22k profit becomes
$80k months at $24k profit.
You tripled the business and bought yourself a management job.
You're now the only person in the company who can't quit.
Congrats.
❌ Book more calls.
Twenty on the calendar.
Six show up ready.
You spend the sharpest hours of your week convincing people.
Your calendar becomes a prison
And you are stuck working every hour in it.
❌ Raise your prices.
Feels like leverage.
Same trade, bigger number.
But...
You still have to be in the room.
Three of the most common ways business coaches "help" you grow.
But there's one big mistake.
None of these solutions have any real LEVERAGE.
Let me explain.
There's a number that tells the truth.
That most never calculate for themselves.
It's your Profit per hour.
Not revenue.
Revenue is the number you say at dinner parties (and in ads 🤪)
Profit per hour is calculated when you
take what you actually kept last month.
Divided by the hours you worked.
That's your real wage.
Most people have never done this.
The ones who do often go quiet real quick
Let's do an example together.
You earn $30k month.
You spend $8k on expenses
So you earn $22k profit.
but you worked 60 hours a week.
That works out to about
... $90 an hour.
Which is probably less than
that $200k job you left.
Now the other way.
Lets say you make $100k month.
And its a lean biz so you make $85k profit.
working only 20 hours a week.
That works out to about
$1,000 an hour.
Very often you can see
the Same person.
with the Same skills.
in the Same market
as another
but one of them is earning
Ten times the wage.
And the only thing thats different is
what the business runs on.
One runs on the founder or coach
the other runs on leverage.
So with this in mind you have to consider
what type of business do you really want?
For some people
building companies is the way
And that often looks like...
Team, payroll, ops, and maybe ...
an exit one day.
legit game.
Played well ... can be excellent.
but just so we are clear....
This is NOT the game I am playing.
I'm not building a big team.
I'm not filling my calendar with sales calls
I'm not trading more hours for more revenue.
I'm building a business that can generate $100k- $300k a month with ads, ai & workshops and
allows me to finish work by 3pm on a Thursday so I can go on date nights with my family.
Different game.
Different rules.
And if you don't consciously design your
life and business...
You'll say you have a growth problem
never realizing you are just
continuing to play a game
you don't even want to win
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You don't have a growth problem...
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