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Forget "Bikini Body in 90 Days" what about "Unplugged Vacation in 90 Days"?

If you are a business owner with a small team, I'm holding a 12 week workshop to get you to a week off.

What if when the holidays came around you didn't have to take your laptop with you?

Message me and let's talk.

He ended with "If I hire a part-time admin who can fill out this kind of paperwork, I will free up my time to bring in twice as many jobs."

Neither of us knew when we started the conversation where his area of greatest opportunity will be.

Before I met with him, he didn't know what he needed to do next to double his revenue.

After an hour, he did.

He started with "I want to get college contracts, but I don't understand all the paperwork. Can you help me?"
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If you are a small business owner thinking some version of "If only.."
- If only I had x many more dollars.
- If only I had more customers.
- If only I could get (insert perfect client).

Let's talk. Because it's possible to move from "If only" to "Oh, I can do that."

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Turns out what she really needs is to hermetically seal her sensor so that it can work outside.

"Is there anything off the shelf that could do it?"

She paused, "No."

So the next questions were:

An early stage entrepreneur working on an outdoor measurement device says she needs a quarter of a million dollars.

That's a big ask for someone at her stage, I asked her to break to down...

$750,000,000 is just a number.

When you turn a number into the job it is supposed to do, you can start to get creative about accomplishing the job.

A. She's going to research manufacturers that might have the equipment she needs.

B. With a little adjustment, her device might be in the running for a current XPRIZE category.
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A. "Is there someone who has the ability to create the custom case that she could partner with?"

B. "Who has an expensive problem that this could solve who might be willing to toss money at it?"

Her solutions:

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Why didn't the the vaudeville comedy duos do a 50/50 split?

Classic split was 60 for the straight man, 40 for the funny man.

The harder job was to give contrast the the funny man by being completely serious.

Where can you make your client shine by playing the straight man?