How to Grow Your Business by Spending Less Time in It – In Just 7 Minutes with John Nieuwenburg
Discover how to grow a practice that is comfortable to manage (mostly without you in it) Learn what's happening in your business, why it's happening, and what you need to do to turn it around Know what the next level looks like for you and your business Resources/Links: Checkout John's The Well-Managed Practice: 5 Steps to a Business That Runs Smoothly, Profitably, and (mostly) Without You :Opt-in here: https://w5coaching.com/the-well-managed-practice/ Summary Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? Do you want to transform your business into something that is both more manageable and valuable? John Nieuwenburg is an award-winning Business Coach, who has worked with hundreds of clients. John coaches in 3 primary areas. Business, Personal Growth, and Accountability. In this episode, John shares how he helps clients grow their business by them spending less time in it through his systematic process that helps them increase profit, remove the stress and chaos from their businesses and get their lives back. Check out these episode highlights: 01:02 – John's ideal client: "People that have a professional advisory practice." 01:33 – Problem John helps solve: "Time, team and money." 02:27 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to John: "Typically, they're in a rut and don't see a way forward." 03:42 – Common mistakes that people make before they find John's solution: "I have a riddle around that, doing more of what you've done is only going to get you more of what you got. And so, they're stuck in a trap and kind of circular thinking and it has to get pretty uncomfortable before they start to look for different solutions." 04:46 – John's Valuable Free Action(VFA): "They got to learn to use a default diary. A default diary is time blocking. And the essence of it is to create a calendar of how you spend your time so that it matches your priorities." 05:51 – John's Valuable Free Resource (VFR):Checkout John's The Well-Managed Practice: 5 Steps to a Business That Runs Smoothly, Profitably, and (mostly) Without You :Opt-in here: https://w5coaching.com/the-well-managed-practice/ 07:07 – Q: What is the one question I should have asked you but didn't? A: We're so caught up in the love of our craft, the love of our profession, that we often fall in the trap of that's all we want to do. And so, the lesson that's hard for some professional advisors to get is, it's not doing more of what you sell, it's selling more of what you do. And both those parts of your business need to be weighted about equally and the amount of effort and energy you're putting into it. And if all you're doing is focusing on the practice part of it, you're going to suffer from a feast or famine kind of life. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Do a time inventory.'” -@W5CoachingClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: 0:09 Greetings everyone, and a very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, joined today by John Nieuwenburg. John, good day sir, a very warm welcome. Where are you hanging out? John Nieuwenburg: 0:20 I'm in Vancouver BC, which is on the west coast of Canada. Tom Poland: 0:23 Yeah, and a beautiful, beautiful city. You can be watching the whales in the morning and skiing in the afternoon ...