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Scaling Your Business Requires Understanding Your Unit Economics

CoachingAug 17, 2023

In the world of business, understanding unit economics is crucial for achieving scalability, profitability, and maintaining overall business health. It provides valuable insights into the financial performance of a company, allowing entrepreneurs and managers to make informed decisions about resource allocation, pricing, and profitability. I spend a decent amount of time talking about this in...

CoachingBusiness Advice

Motivational Segmentation

Marketing & CommunicationsMay 14, 2023

The other day I wrote an ebook about motivational segmentation. It wasn't called that, because, seriously, who would choose to read something with that title. Instead, I called the eBook, Grow Your Coaching Practice 8X With One Single Sales Strategy. But what I shared in that free eBook isn't just for coaches. I would submit...

Marketing & Communications

Grow Your Business Profits in 2023

Agency AdviceDec 26, 2022

If you're looking to grow profits next year, you've likely already made your plans for the new year. I get that. And it's the last days of this year, so you've stopped reading blogs. I get that too. But there's a good chance that while you've used one or a couple of the strategies below...

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How To Navigate The Lean Years

Agency AdviceNov 30, 2022

Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here) recession, I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into this time under a lot of stress. Let's be honest, I'm not an economist. I...

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Premature Optimization is a Timing Mistake

CoachingNov 15, 2022

In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don't (timing). Most people aren't really great at decision making. But that's something you can get better at. So let's move to the harder dynamic that we can't control - and that's timing. Everything in...

Coaching

When The Wrong People Quit

CoachingNov 7, 2022

The Trend of Quiet Quitting You've likely heard of quiet quitting - the dynamic where people don't actually leave your company. Instead, they simply stop working as hard. They skate. They put in the absolutely minimum amount of work to feel good about collecting their pay. Suddenly, this summer, everyone was talking about it. Guess...

Coaching

The Case for Pruning

CoachingOct 31, 2022

There are two things I know about pruning. Now, you should know that I actually shouldn't use the word \"know\" as if I'm a master gardener. I'm not. It's probably more accurate to say that I read this on Wikipedia and learned two things. But the reason I was able to grasp them so quickly...

Coaching

Do you really need a coach?

CoachingSep 23, 2022

Business coaching is a great way to accelerate past predictable challenges you may not be able to see. It's also a fantastic way to get the accountability you need to help drive a culture of execution.

Coaching

Creating a \"How to work with me\" Guide

Marketing & CommunicationsSep 21, 2022

Not Everyone Knows How To Work With You When you're adding new people to your team, they're stepping into a team dynamic and starting to work with a bunch of people they have no history with. In other words, they don't know how to work with you in the best way possible. Consider creating a...

Marketing & Communications

Self-Service is the Name of the Game

WordPressMay 31, 2022

A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990's I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell, McDonalds, etc.) in the last five years. It was a test back then. But it...

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