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03/09/2026

That was one of my own mistakes.

I hired a sales manager in my first business.
I thought it was going to be easy.
I'd already owned the function.
I knew how to sell.
The business was already doing seven figures.

So I assumed:
If I can do it, someone else can do it.

Wrong.

I hadn't properly defined his KPIs.
I hadn't documented how I sold.
I hadn't defined what I expected him to own after week 1, week 4 and week 12.

So instead of stepping into a functioning system, he had to learn the system while doing the job.
We struggled to cover his wages for six months.

And this was happening while I was already rebuilding a business carrying multi-six-figure debt.

The lesson wasn't "hire better."
It was:
A good person inside a poorly designed system can still produce a poor outcome.

Your new hire shouldn't have to reverse-engineer your business.

Document the way you work.
Define the outcome.
Define ownership.
Build the 90-day plan.

Then give them a chance to become genuinely useful.

If you're wondering where your business still depends too heavily on you, book a free consultation with me.

02/09/2026

More sales don't automatically mean more profit.

One of the biggest mistakes businesses make is looking at revenue without looking closely at the cost of acquiring each customer.

You can sell more products, bring in more customers, and still be moving backwards if your acquisition costs are eating up the margin.

As Sheldon Wolf explains, customer acquisition isn't free.
Advertising, marketing, promotions, returns, and the other costs involved in getting a customer through the door all affect what you actually make.

It's easy to look at a growing sales number and assume the business is healthy.

But revenue is only part of the equation.

The better question is:

What does it actually cost us to generate that revenue?

If the economics don't work at the customer level, scaling the business doesn't fix the problem.
It multiplies it.

In Episode 79 of The Growth Equation, Sheldon Wolf shares practical lessons on finding problems in your business, understanding the numbers, and turning those problems into opportunities.

Listen to the full conversation now.

02/09/2026

Hiring someone adds more than their salary to your cost base.

There's recruitment time.
Interview time.
Training time.
The time of the people helping them.
Lost productivity.
Mistakes.
Missed opportunities.

And the opportunity cost of having an expensive person who isn't yet operating at capacity.
I experienced this first-hand with a sales manager.
The business struggled to cover his wages for the first six months because the role had been handed over without a proper onboarding plan.

That's the part owners routinely miss.
The cost of a hire isn't just what you pay them. It's how long you take to make them useful.

If you want to find the operational bottlenecks costing your business time and margin, book a free consultation call with me.

If every new employee needs you to personally explain how the business works,you've created a people problem that looks ...
01/09/2026

If every new employee needs you to personally explain how the business works,
you've created a people problem that looks like a hiring problem.

The fix starts before the hire starts.
Build the 90-day plan.
Document the work.
Define ownership.

Then let the system do some of the teaching.

31/08/2026

A good hire can take one week to become useful.

Or ten weeks.
Or six months.
Or they might never become truly useful.

The difference often isn't the person you hired.
It's what you gave them to work with.

If your onboarding consists of:
“Here’s your role. Let me know if you have questions.”
you're not onboarding someone.

You're transferring your workload to someone who doesn't yet know how your business works.

A proper onboarding plan should define:
→ What success looks like after week 1
→ What they should own after week 4
→ What they should be capable of after 90 days
→ How the work is actually done in your business

Because every business has its own way of doing things.
And every week you leave that undocumented is another week you're paying for inefficiency.

If you want to see where inefficiency is costing your business, book a FREE Discovery call with me. Link in bio.

Delegation isn’t:“Here’s something I don’t want to do anymore.”It’s not about offloading tasks.It’s about transferring o...
22/08/2026

Delegation isn’t:
“Here’s something I don’t want to do anymore.”

It’s not about offloading tasks.
It’s about transferring ownership.

Real delegation means someone has the clarity, authority, and responsibility to achieve an outcome without you in the middle of it.

If your team still needs your approval for every decision, you haven’t delegated the work
you’ve just reassigned the ex*****on.

And that creates task-doers, not owners.

The goal isn’t to remove work from your plate but to build a team that doesn’t need you to hold theirs.

That’s what independence looks like in a business.

21/08/2026

I've seen businesses celebrate numbers that didn't actually change anything.
A bigger following.

More leads.
More activity.
More things happening.

But here's the uncomfortable question:

Did any of it make the business more profitable?
Did it make customers happier?
Did it make the team happier?
Did it give the founder more freedom?

Numbers are useful.
But only when they help you understand whether you're actually getting somewhere.

21/08/2026

When someone doesn't deliver, the founder's instinct is often:
"I'll just do it myself."

And that's exactly how dependency gets created.

Instead, ask:
Was the expectation clear?
Did they have the capability?
Did they have the authority?
Did they understand what ownership looked like?

Don't solve a people problem by creating a founder problem.

20/08/2026

My ego nearly cost me my business.
I thought I could do things better than everyone else.
And that mindset nearly broke the business.

The turning point was realising I didn't have to know more than everyone else.

I could learn from people who had already made the mistakes.
I could ask better questions.
I could bring in expertise I didn't have.
I could get help.

That's not weakness.
That's how you stop making every lesson the expensive way.

You don't need to be the smartest person in the room.
You need to be willing to learn from the people who are.

What's one lesson you learned the hard way because you didn't ask for help sooner?

20/08/2026

Who is one person you wish you could sit down with for an hour?

Someone who's already built what you're trying to build.
Someone who's made the mistakes you're trying to avoid.
Someone who's further ahead than you.

That's the power of a network.

So drop the name, or tell us what you'd ask them.

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