The Self-Sustaining Business Program

The chasm between Stressed and Self-sustaining

1. Startup

   Lots of time, no work. The owner is a technician, not yet an operator, and often is not getting paid.

2. Stressed

   Lots of work, no time. Quality depends on the owner, who wears every hat and gets paid last.

3. Steady

   A team is being built. The owner is learning to manage people and is torn between doing the work personally and leaning on staff.

4. Self-sustaining

   The team runs on its own. Hats are delegated, systems hold the quality, the value of the business grows, and the owner is paid as a shareholder.

If you are reading this, you are probably somewhere between the second stage and the third, and the distance to the fourth is a chasm. You cannot cross it by working harder. You cross it by changing how the business runs, which is what the program does.

Turn your business into the goose that lays the golden egg: a company that runs, and grows, without you in it.

The eight modules, and what you build in each

These are the same eight fundamentals the free scorecard scores and the Business Health Check assesses. The scorecard shows you where you are weak, the Health Check examines it properly, and the program builds it.

1. Mindset

   You see the business as an asset rather than a job, and you shift from working in it to working on it, with a growth mindset to match.

2. Vision

   Your purpose, your values, your vision and your mission, written down, with a clear core purpose and a clear core focus for the business.

3. Marketing

   Your uniques, your target market, a proven process for winning the work, and a guarantee that backs it.

4. People

   The right people in the right seats, hired to your vision and values, with an accountability chart and the habit of delegating and elevating.

5. Metrics

   A scorecard of the numbers the business runs on, with every staff member owning one of them.

6. Issues

   A way to solve problems quickly and accurately, with weekly to-dos so they stay solved.

7. Process

   A documented core process for each department, plus the policies and procedures that let you step away.

8. Goals

   Your vision turned into yearly, quarterly and weekly goals. This is the module that converts the other seven into results.

How the program runs

• Two pacesSixteen weeks at the regular pace, with two weeks per module, or eight weeks for owners who want to move faster.
• Eric trains it, then works alongside youHe teaches each module and then works with you as you implement it in your own business, so it lands in the company and not just in your notes.
• You and your management teamThe tools are practical and the implementation is hands-on, for you and for the people who will carry the business without you.
• Unlimited questionsThroughout the 16 weeks you can ask as often as you need to.
• The first quarterly planning session is includedAfter the program, quarterly and annual planning sessions are available to keep the plan alive.

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The investment

The Self-Sustaining Business Program is $25,000, and that includes the first quarterly planning session. It is sold through a conversation, not a checkout. Start with a Business Health Check and it will tell us both whether this program is the right next step.

Request a conversation

This is sold by conversation because fit matters more than speed. Tell Eric a little about the business and he will come back to you personally.

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