Why New Opportunities Keep You Poor...

Alex Hormozi
25 Sept 202421:13

Summary

TLDRThe transcript emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurs focusing on solving existing problems rather than chasing new opportunities. It differentiates between 'problems' that threaten a business's survival and 'missed opportunities' that could grow the business. The speaker shares personal experiences and advises prioritizing resources to tackle current issues before expanding into new ventures. They also stress the value of data that influences actionable outcomes and the need for a clear strategy to avoid being overwhelmed by an endless list of 'should dos'.

Takeaways

  • πŸ’Ό Focus on solving problems rather than chasing opportunities to ensure business longevity.
  • 🚨 Recognize problems as threats to your business's future and missed opportunities as areas for potential growth.
  • πŸ“‰ Address customer complaints, red flags in relationships, and sales team issues as they are critical problems affecting your business.
  • πŸ“ˆ Distinguish between 'should do' tasks and actual problems to avoid overwhelming yourself with an endless to-do list.
  • 🌐 Avoid spreading your business too thin by trying to cater to everyone with every opportunity; focus on core issues first.
  • πŸ” Prioritize problems over missed opportunities because solving them can naturally lead to business growth.
  • πŸ“‰ Understand that focusing only on missed opportunities can lead to increased problems as the business scales.
  • πŸ“ˆ Use data to drive decisions and actions, ensuring that any data point you track influences a change in behavior.
  • πŸ“Š Eliminate data that doesn't result in actionable insights to streamline decision-making and reduce noise.
  • πŸ”‘ Allocate resources strategically by first addressing current problems and then considering missed opportunities once stability is achieved.

Q & A

  • What is the main difference between a problem and a missed opportunity in business?

    -A problem is something that threatens the future livelihood of a business, decreasing the likelihood of its continued existence, such as customer complaints or sales team conversion drops. A missed opportunity, on the other hand, refers to things that could expand or grow the business but are not currently being pursued.

  • Why is it important for entrepreneurs to differentiate between problems and missed opportunities?

    -Differentiating between problems and missed opportunities helps entrepreneurs prioritize their limited resources effectively. It prevents them from getting overwhelmed and ensures they focus on what is critical to the business's survival and growth.

  • What is the consequence of focusing too much on missed opportunities rather than problems?

    -Focusing too much on missed opportunities can lead to a business that tries to sell everything to everyone, resulting in a long list of 'should dos' that can overwhelm the entrepreneur and potentially grow the business's problems rather than solving them.

  • How does the speaker suggest entrepreneurs manage their limited resources?

    -The speaker suggests that entrepreneurs should allocate more of their time towards solving problems that arise daily, as solving these problems will naturally lead to business growth through improvement.

  • What is the speaker's stance on the pursuit of missed opportunities?

    -The speaker believes that missed opportunities, while exciting, should not be the primary focus until all pressing problems are addressed. They can be revisited once the business is running smoothly.

  • Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of focusing on the present over the future?

    -The speaker emphasizes focusing on the present because if the current business operations are not successful, the future opportunities will never materialize. It's about ensuring the business's survival before pursuing growth.

  • What is the speaker's advice for dealing with the overwhelming list of 'should dos'?

    -The speaker advises moving the list of missed opportunities to another place and focusing on solving current problems. Once the business is problem-free, then revisit the list of opportunities and choose the ones with the highest potential for return.

  • How does the speaker propose to evaluate the importance of data in business decisions?

    -The speaker proposes evaluating data based on whether a change in that data results in a change in behavior. If not, the data is considered noise and should be disregarded.

  • What is the speaker's approach to testing business hypotheses?

    -The speaker's approach involves four steps: defining the problem or goal, proposing an action (hypothesis), implementing the action, and then comparing the before and after results to see if the expected outcome occurred.

  • Why is it beneficial to sleep on big ideas before pursuing them?

    -Sleeping on big ideas allows for a less emotional and more critical assessment of their feasibility and value. It helps filter out ideas that may not be beneficial in the long term, leading to better decision-making.

  • What is the speaker's final recommendation for entrepreneurs regarding problems and opportunities?

    -The speaker recommends confronting problems today and forgetting about opportunities for tomorrow. Once all problems are solved, then revisit the list of opportunities and choose the one with the highest likelihood of success to focus on.

Outlines

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πŸ’Ό Prioritizing Problems Over Opportunities

The speaker emphasizes the importance of focusing on solving problems rather than chasing opportunities. Problems are defined as threats to the future of a business, such as customer complaints or declining sales conversions. These issues need immediate attention to ensure the business's survival. On the other hand, missed opportunities are potential areas for business growth that are not currently being pursued. The speaker shares their own struggle with distinguishing between necessary fixes and potential growth opportunities, highlighting the limited resources available to entrepreneurs and the tendency to take on too many tasks. The crux of the message is that addressing problems first can prevent them from escalating and allows for more sustainable business growth.

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πŸ“ˆ Balancing Present Needs with Future Goals

The speaker discusses the challenge of balancing immediate business issues with long-term goals. They admit to sometimes over-indexing on future projects at the expense of current responsibilities. The speaker advocates for a strategic approach to resource allocation, suggesting that entrepreneurs should prioritize solving current problems before expanding into new opportunities. They also mention the importance of recognizing when to focus on the present to ensure the business's short-term success, using their own experience as an example of finding balance between future-oriented projects and daily business operations.

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πŸ“Š Data-Driven Decision Making for Business Growth

The speaker outlines a data-driven approach to decision making in business. They stress the importance of presenting data that will lead to actionable insights and changes in behavior, rather than simply reporting data for the sake of it. The speaker provides a framework for evaluating data: identifying the problem, hypothesizing an action to solve the problem, allocating resources, and then measuring whether the action had the desired effect. They also discuss the difference between problems, which often have existing data that can guide solutions, and missed opportunities, which are more speculative and require careful consideration before pursuing.

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πŸš€ Selective Pursuit of Big Ideas

The speaker encourages entrepreneurs to be selective with their ideas for business expansion. They suggest moving all potential opportunities to a separate list and focusing on solving immediate problems first. The speaker shares a quote from Jeff Bezos about the importance of taking bold bets, but also points out the limitations of resources and the need for strategic decision-making. They recommend revisiting the list of opportunities after solving existing problems, as new information may render some ideas less viable. The speaker also advises a 'sleep on it' approach to avoid impulsive decisions based on excitement for a new idea.

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πŸ› οΈ Confronting Problems for Sustainable Growth

The speaker concludes by urging business owners to confront their problems and delay focusing on opportunities until those problems are resolved. They emphasize the importance of creating a customer-centric experience and the benefits of solving problems promptly. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about improving an onboarding process that not only increased profits but also enhanced customer satisfaction. They recommend a 6 to 1 ratio of deep business content to other types of content, suggesting a focus on quality over quantity in business endeavors.

Mindmap

Keywords

πŸ’‘Problems

In the context of the video, 'problems' refer to issues that threaten the future of a business if not addressed. They are urgent matters that, if left unresolved, could decrease the likelihood of a business's survival. The speaker uses customer complaints and declining sales conversions as examples of problems, emphasizing their importance over missed opportunities because solving them can prevent further issues and ensure business continuity.

πŸ’‘Missed Opportunities

'Missed Opportunities' are potential areas for business growth that are not currently being pursued. These could include new marketing campaigns or product features that could expand the business. The video contrasts these with problems, suggesting that while they are exciting and often align with an entrepreneur's passions, they should not take precedence over solving existing problems within the business.

πŸ’‘Resources

Resources in the video refer to the limited assets, such as time, money, and personnel, available to a business. The speaker stresses the importance of allocating these resources wisely, focusing on solving problems before pursuing missed opportunities to avoid spreading the business too thin and overwhelming its capacity.

πŸ’‘Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking is the process of prioritizing and making decisions regarding the allocation of resources. The video emphasizes the need for entrepreneurs to think strategically about where to focus their efforts, suggesting that a clear-headed approach to problem-solving can lead to more sustainable business growth than chasing every potential opportunity.

πŸ’‘Execution

Execution in this video script refers to the act of carrying out a plan or strategy. The speaker discusses how problems arise when something that was set up once needs fixing because it's not being executed properly, indicating that effective execution is crucial for avoiding problems and ensuring business success.

πŸ’‘Growth

Growth in the video is discussed in two contexts: growth through solving problems, which leads to betterment and sustainable expansion, and growth through capturing missed opportunities, which might lead to doing more but also creating more problems. The speaker advocates for a balanced approach to growth, prioritizing problem-solving to ensure healthy expansion.

πŸ’‘Prioritization

Prioritization is a key concept in the video, referring to the process of deciding the order or importance of tasks. The speaker argues for prioritizing problems over missed opportunities, as addressing problems can lead to more effective use of resources and prevent the amplification of issues as the business grows.

πŸ’‘Data

Data in the video is mentioned as a tool for making informed decisions. The speaker advises that data should only be considered if it influences behavior or decision-making within the business. For example, tracking view durations could be important if the business decides to act on that data to improve content strategies.

πŸ’‘Behavior Change

Behavior change is discussed as a necessary outcome of analyzing data. If a change in data does not result in a change in behavior or strategy, it is considered noise. The speaker gives an example of not needing to report on metrics that do not tie back to core business objectives, such as customer acquisition or revenue growth.

πŸ’‘Hypothesis

A hypothesis in the video is a proposed explanation or assumption made for the sake of argument. The speaker uses the example of hypothesizing that reaching out to customers will decrease turnover rates, suggesting that actions should be based on testable assumptions to ensure that efforts are directed towards solving actual problems.

πŸ’‘Ideation

Ideation refers to the process of generating new ideas. The speaker mentions having a list of big money-making ideas but recognizes the need to limit the pursuit of these ideas to when the business is running smoothly and all pressing problems have been addressed.

Highlights

Focus on solving problems rather than chasing opportunities to grow your business.

Problems are threats to the future of your business, such as customer complaints or declining conversions.

Missed opportunities are things you should be doing to expand or grow your business.

Entrepreneurs often struggle with prioritizing between fixing problems and pursuing opportunities.

The danger of focusing too much on opportunities is that it can lead to a list that keeps growing without end.

Solving problems can lead to better business growth, whereas pursuing opportunities can just lead to doing more.

It's crucial to allocate resources to solve daily problems to prevent them from stifling business growth.

Data should be displayed for a reason and should influence behavior or decision-making.

Meetings should result in a change in behavior or action, not just be presentations of data.

Problems often come with more data than missed opportunities, which are often hypothetical.

There's a four-step process to solving problems: identifying the condition or goal, action, did we do it, and did what we expect happen.

Jeff Bezos' philosophy on betting against conventional wisdom and the importance of taking calculated risks.

The importance of being bold and taking big swings in business for outsized returns.

The analogy of baseball and business, where in business, you can score a lot more than just a home run.

The importance of solving problems today and revisiting opportunities tomorrow.

The idea of 'sleeping on it' to better prioritize and filter out less valuable opportunities.

The 6 to 1 ratio of creating content, focusing on deep business insights over general content.

The importance of creating an amazing customer experience early on to build a positive reputation.

Transcripts

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you're not making as much money as you

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want because you're working on the wrong

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stuff you're chasing opportunities

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rather than solving problems so a

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problem is something that threatens the

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future livelihood of your business so it

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decreases the likelihood that your

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business will continue to exist so for

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example if you get customer complaints

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from your product that is a problem if

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your processor you know relationship

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becomes a red flag that is a problem

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your sales team starts dropping

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conversions that is a problem these are

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things that threaten whether or not

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you're going to be live tomorrow now the

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second bucket are missed opportunities

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these are things that you are not doing

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but you should be doing in your business

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that could expand or grow your business

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here is the fundamental problem in my

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life I have almost equally colored them

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the same as just things to do I need to

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fix the sales team I also need to get

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this email follow-up campaign redone

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because it sucks right or it's not there

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to begin with we need to get this

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retargeting across all platforms why

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aren't we doing that and you probably

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have this list of what I consider should

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do right I know I should be doing all

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these things but I'm not and so this is

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where this gets really painful for the

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entrepreneur myself included which is we

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only have limited resources but our list

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of should do is unlimited the amount of

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opportunities taken to their natural

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extreme is that you have a business that

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selles everything to everyone think

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about it at every Point there's there's

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oh we could have a product here there

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that's a opportunity for Revenue

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expansion oh we should add in this other

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channel that's a possibility or

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opportunity for Revenue expansion and so

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what ends up happening is that over time

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Everything feels like something that you

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should do and then over time your list

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just gets longer and longer and longer

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and unless you delineate which thing is

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a problem and which thing is a missed

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opportunity you will get way overwhelmed

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so this is why I think this is so

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crucial missed opportunity

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are typically more fun they're exciting

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they're new things they're shiny and

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that's why us entrepreneurs love

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pursuing them the reason that I talk

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about focus and the woman in the red

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dress so often is it's because it's the

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thing that I struggle with to this day

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most often and so half of these sermons

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probably more than half are actually

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just me yelling at me to be clear now

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these are really fun and exciting and

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they tend to be around the things that

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you love and so if you're a product

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person you're probably going to have a

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lot of product should dos if you're a

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marketer you're probably have a lot of

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marketing related should do if you're

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customer success related same thing so

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if you're Finance same thing whatever

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your thing is tends to be the thing that

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you like doing the most of and that's

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where you tend to see the most missed

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opportunities because that's where you

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spend the most time you can always see

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the next step The Next Step the next

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step and you keep wanting to grab those

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other things and bring them into your

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business because you see how much money

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that we're quote leaving on the table

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problems on the other hand suck and

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they're not fun and it's usually you

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going into something that you set up

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once and having to fix you thought it

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was going to work but it's not being

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executed properly or there's some key

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problem that that you didn't expect it's

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basically you did something a new piece

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of information came to light and now you

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have to do something about it the reason

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beyond what I just said of why you

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shouldn't focus on the missed

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opportunities because there's obviously

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so many of them and it taken to the

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National extreme it's literally

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everything is also because when you

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prioritize Miss opportunities you grow

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your business but guess what else

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happens you grow your problems and so if

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you have not solved your problem before

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growing the business that problem just

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gets bigger some of you guys may have

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noticed that I've been making a little

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bit less content lately and so I've been

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super busy on this big missed

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opportunity I put it that way and I've

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been pouring tons and tons and tons of

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hours into this big new project like

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massive thing for

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2025 and Lea basically came to me and

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she was like I'm dying over here like I

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need your help I need you back right

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like your head's not in the game like

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you're like we're we're doing business

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every day and you're over here trying to

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build the future and the thing is is

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this is not a problem to be solved it's

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a dichotomy to be managed if you're the

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Visionary entrepreneur in the business

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it's normal for you to live 3 months 6

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months a year plus out that's normal but

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you can't take your eye off the ball

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from today and so for me this was a

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pendulum that I was swinging too far in

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this direction and so she was like dude

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you need to make some content you

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haven't like you're not you're not like

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you're not spending any time on it and

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so um to give you context I think over

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the last two weeks we've had have we

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even had a a scheduled recording session

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yeah so we've had about one we've had

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one recording session last week and this

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is now one

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today and the the ones that I was going

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to I wasn't as prepared as I should have

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been uh for those sessions I was like

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all right all right what are we what are

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we talking about today and you know the

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team kind of basically uh gave me gave

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me the talking point point and so for

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you guys it may not be content right it

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may be you need to make ads it may be

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you need to be looking at the outbound

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team it may be our customer success is

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failing whatever that thing is it was

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the thing that's hard right and so for

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me like I like despite the fact that

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everyone thinks that I'm a content

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creator this is not my main job all

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right and so my life is not as you know

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as much as I try right as much as I try

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to make more cont everybody like it's

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not it's not the main thing still and so

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um but I let it get away from me and so

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the thing is is like I've given I've

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learned to over time give myself a

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little bit of Grace in saying this I

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will never solve this it is

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unsolvable but it's simply about

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percentages of the pie that I'm going to

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allocate to Now versus the future and I

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get a little bit too over indexed on the

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future that's in my nature and so I have

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to overemphasize the present because

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this if this doesn't work then that will

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never happen anyways and I think Leila

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has always been so grounded in today and

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I've been so grounded in the future

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that's been our yin and yang but we both

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try and mean the I have to pull her

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towards future be like hey let's like

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this is where we're going this is we

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have to build it this way to get to here

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and she's like yeah but that's a massive

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pain for me and I will tell you

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something that I have and now it's

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taking me far too long to learn is that

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it's easier to solve small problems than

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big problems and so when we were

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thinking about putting the sequence of

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what things we're going to prioritize by

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the way the TLD are of this is this is

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strategy strategy is prioritizing

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limited resources against unlimited

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opportunities these are things that you

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could do with these resources versus the

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resources you have and so if you have a

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fixed pool of resources the first things

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and this is like I'm relooking at my my

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list right

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now are the things that probably suck

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they are the problems and that is where

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you can spend or should spend in my

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opinion your time because when you solve

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your problems guess what else also

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happens you grow you would like my team

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to go over that list of things that you

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have to grow your business the things

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that are the missed opportunities and

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also the problems and give you a

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step-by-step plan to solve those because

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we probably have solved them for

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businesses just like yours because we

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have a lot of different companies

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probably bigger than yours in the

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portfolio and so if you'd like that uh

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we are holding uh workshops here in

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Vegas this my actual portfolio team we

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hold them one or two times a month uh

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and so if that's at all interesting you

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can go to acquisition. comom and you can

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click the scale button and uh if your

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business qualifies we'd love to see you

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out here opportunities can grow your

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company problem solved also grow your

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company but when you solve problems as

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you grow you get growth through getting

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better when you grow through capturing

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missed opportunities you grow through

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doing more and to be fair I have no

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problem with growing through doing more

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but I do have a problem when more also

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creates more

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problems and so if the goal of the

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entrepreneur is to allocate resources

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across the entire company to achieve the

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best returns then we should be

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allocating more of our time towards

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solving problems that are coming up on a

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daily basis when you have a business

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that no longer has problems you will

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grow by default and so my allocation of

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resources has gone in this direction now

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I want to zoom out and make this super

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Tactical for you you probably look at

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data hopefully if you follow my stuff to

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any degree on a regular basis now if

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you're earlier on you have to go gather

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that data from tons of places as you get

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more advanced that data becomes pushed

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to you via dashboards or direct reports

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people present those things on meetings

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it's the first slide and then you talk

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about the data so I want to give you a

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2011 level hack here that will change

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how you run your business number one the

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data that you choose to display must be

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there for a reason one of the biggest

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problems that I see across our portfolio

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companies and even within our holding

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compan company is that my direct reports

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and my employees often over report

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because they know I love data and so

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they like look at all of this data that

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we have but if you present me a piece of

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data and a change in that data does not

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result in a change in Behavior it is a

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waste of time and so right now if you

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look at the data and you're like okay

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we're trending in this direction if you

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if you ask the hypothetical question if

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we Max this out would it change what

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we're doing if the answer is no then you

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should stop looking at that piece of

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data it's noise not

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signal and so when you're making the

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decisions for your business the data

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that you look at you should clearly know

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and your team should know what Behavior

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this data influences if our average view

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duration drops then it could be from a

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number of reasons but if it does drop

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are we going to do something about it

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and what are we going to do this also

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will Target your discussions or Orient

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your discussions with your team and so

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if they come to you and say hey we want

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to run a meeting about this the end

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result of every meeting should be a

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change in Behavior it should be what are

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we going to do now if someone says Hey I

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want to report these trends that we're

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seeing cool and I'll give you a really

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recent one that

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happened I had a vendor for a platform a

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while ago and the vendor was telling me

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hey we should go for shorter shorter

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versions of this type of content and I

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was like okay why and he said well

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because when we shorten it a higher

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percentage of people watch it or consume

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it and I said why do I care what does

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the view duration or listen duration

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have to do with any of the metrics that

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we have in this business can you prove

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to me that us getting a higher

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percentage of people viewing a shorter

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piece of content in some way drives our

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business now if he then said yes pieces

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of content that have higher average view

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durations or average listen durations

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then create more shares then I would say

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got it done we're doing it but if you

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just report oh we should do this because

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it improves this metric how does that

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metric tie to getting us more customers

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or making customers worth more if you

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can't tie why this thing or this metric

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that we somehow track tracks to this I

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do not care and the reason I think this

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is so important is that we have such

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limited attention in business every

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single day that if someone's going to

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buy or bid for our attention they better

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damn well have a good reason for it and

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also your team is limited as well they

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are human beings too and so they have

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many people they've got slack messages

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they've got emails they've got meetings

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and then they have the work that they're

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actually supposed to do and so if you

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have a quarterly for example and you

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have your whole team there if you are

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aren't clear about what change in

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Behavior the data is going to create you

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are wasting your time and theirs if

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after that day or after that meeting you

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go back to business you might as well

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have just taken the day off wrapping

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this back to problems and missed

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opportunities you will probably have

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significantly more data around your

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problems than you will around missed

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opportunities missed opportunities are

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going to be purely hypothetical we think

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if we had this percentage of people to

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convert and they pay this price this is

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the revenue uplift that's that that we

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have potential to capture all of this is

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hypothetical fine on the problem side we

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have to look at what thing we're going

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to change to fix this problem and so

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this is how we do it we have four steps

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all right so if you're writing this at

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home then this is this is the writer

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Downer part number one is the condition

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or the goal that we are trying to the

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problem we're trying to solve all right

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this is how this is current this is

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desired

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cool next thing is what is the action

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what are we going to

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do and this is to be clear a hypothesis

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our turn rate is at 5% okay we

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hypothesize that if we do a one-onone

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reach out to every customer as they

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enter our you know buy our product we

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will decrease turn that's the hypothesis

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it's an action tied with what we expect

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and the reason for taking this cost on

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because it will cost you you money to do

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this cost

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resources the third bucket and this is

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the fun one did we do it or not so this

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is the before and after so we have the

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problem here's how we hypothesize it we

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have what data that we want to affect so

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turn rate was the percentage we want it

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to go down we hypothesized it's going to

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go down by this much cool that's the

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before the after is did we do it or not

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very simple because you can have this

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whole hypothesis get to the end of the

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quarter get to the end of the week and

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then say we didn't really do it okay

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well then we didn't test the

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hypothesis now here's the fun one let's

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say you do it did what we expect to have

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happened happen because we are guessing

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that if we do this thing churn will go

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down but we could do the thing and

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children could remain the same and so it

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cost us time and it cost us money but

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the problem remained unsolved and this

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is the nature of business and this is

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why your second business grew way faster

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than your first business because you

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already knew the solutions to the

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problems that you're going to create

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along the way and then you run smack

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into problems that you don't know how to

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solve and this is why I'm I want to hit

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on this so hard you're not growing

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because there are problems that you need

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to solve that you're not solving because

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they're not fun and you don't know what

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to do so instead you're doing more of

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the thing that you know to do around

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opportunities but you still have not

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solve the problem and you've done this

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enough times that you've now grown the

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problems to the point where it's

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stifling your business and so you have

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to

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stop and so you have to look at that big

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to-do list that you have and you have to

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think which of these are problems that I

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need to solve that will make us better

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and as a result of being better grow our

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business and which of these are

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opportunities that are missed that we

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think that we could do but aren't doing

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yet I would encourage you to take that

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entire list of missed opportunities

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Theos and just move them somewhere else

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and what I have is something called Alex

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is Big money-making ideal list everybody

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in the company knows about this I have

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more ideas than we have capacity to

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implement and I have learned through

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many years of working with Lila that I

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actually only get maybe one out of 10 or

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20 that I actually get to do because you

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don't have unlimited shots on goal that

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is the problem so Jeff Bezos has the

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saying that it's the beginning of this

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book I'll actually read it to you

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because I think it's so it's so

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significant outsized returns often come

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from betting against conventional wisdom

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and conventional wisdom is usually right

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given a 10% chance of 100 times payoff

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you should take that bet every time but

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you're still going to be wrong nine

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times out of 10 we all know that if you

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swing for the fences you're going to

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strike out a lot but you're also going

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to hit some home runs the difference

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between baseball and business however is

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that baseball has a truncated outcome

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distribution when you swing no matter

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how well you connect with the ball the

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most runs you can get is four in

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business every once in a while when you

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step up to the plate you can score a

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th000 runs this longtail distribution of

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returns is why it's important to be bold

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Big Winners pay for so many experiments

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now here's the one flaw and I Bezos is

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much smarter than me much richer than me

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but there's one flaw with the

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analogy if you go to a casino and you

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have a a a 100x payoff and you've got a

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one out of 10 BET then you should make

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that bet every time under one assumption

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that you can bet as many times as you

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please let's say you go to the casino

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and it's a $10 minimum bet

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and the bets 100x payoff but you only

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have 20

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bucks you're only going to get two

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swings which means the likelihood that

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you fail entirely is four out of five

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you have a 20% chance of actually

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winning an 80% chance of losing

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period And so this is in my opinion a

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more realistic take of what it's like to

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be a business owner we do not have

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unlimited swings we do not have

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unlimited resources and so we have to be

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incredibly measured with which swings we

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choose to take and so the highest

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likelihood swings are the problems that

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need to be solved in your business today

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these are the sure money these are the

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as soon as you solve it you cash it in

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the things that are certainly not

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certain is the missed opportunities that

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are purely

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hypothetical and so if you solve all the

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problems that you have at a current

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level once you get to that and there are

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times where you get there where

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everything's kind of humming along that

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is when you look up your big missed

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opportunities list your big money-making

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idea list and you say now which of these

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will I take and here's the interesting

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thing if you do this you will find that

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many of the ideas that you were jazzed

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about two months ago now you think are

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stupid because you found out more from

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solving the problems that actually give

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you more information that this is

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actually not a missed opportunity and so

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it increases the likelihood that the

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swings you do take the big swings do

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result in the big payoff

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and so like this is like the big the

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ultimate sleep on it like if you have an

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amazing idea don't tell them right then

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because you're going to oversell

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everybody you're going to oversell

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yourself if you sleep on it the next day

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you're a little less psyched if you come

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back to it two months later you'll be

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amazed at how many of these things you

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just won't even want to do anymore and

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think about how stupid it would be if

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two months later after looking at all

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your ideas 90% of them you don't want to

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do anymore it means that every one of

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those things that you shov down your

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team's throat because you were excited

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about it was a mistake it was you

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failing as an entrepreneur because you

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got too distracted you got too excited

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about shiny object you got too into the

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stuff that you like rather than

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confronting the stuff that you hate that

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will absolutely grow your company this

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is something that I'm personally working

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on and I'm heated about it because this

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has been such an epiphany For Me In

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terms because I love any Frameworks that

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allow me to better prioritize that allow

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me to be a better strategic thinker for

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my business and so this

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operationalizes better what you guys can

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can expect from me is um I will be

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prioritizing making more content for you

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guys um I hope you guys have liked the

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deeper content stuff like the real

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business stuff I think right now I'll

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tell you honestly we settled on a 6 to1

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ratio so basically five out of every six

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videos are going to be deep business

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stuff like if you guys haven't seen the

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last three videos that I put up on

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YouTube especially the one before last

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there's a banger case study on what we

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did to make 3 million bucks more profit

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in one of our folio companies to

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increase customer satisfaction course

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decrease refunds and chargebacks

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increase Ascension rates by over

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40% just by fixing our onboarding

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process in this particular business and

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so every company needs some sort of

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onboarding process whether your physical

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products business you're a software

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company you're a you're a a service

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business you need to have that stuff but

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guess what that was a problem and it was

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a problem that we solved and it

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immediately made us more money and we

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should have put more attention on that

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even sooner because the reputation that

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we would have would be simply better

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right so like the early you create that

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amazing customer experience the more

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customers who go through it the more

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people have positive things to say about

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you and so I say all this to say one

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main

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thing confront your problems today

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forget about your opportunities for

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tomorrow put them on the big list once

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you've solved all the problems go

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revisit the list and then pick the one

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that has the highest likelihood of

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yielding the biggest return for you and

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then go all in on it if this content was

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valuable for you check out either of

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these two videos

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