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Most photographers don't fail because of their photography, they fail because of pricing and marketing. In this episode of The Portrait System Podcast, Nikki sits down with Vanessa Joy (working photographer + educator, in business since 2008) to talk about what it really takes to keep a photography business profitable and sustainable.In this conversation, Vanessa breaks down:Why “I need more leads” is usually the wrong problemHow to market with a wide net (and why there's no magic bullet)The biggest fix when you're “posting everywhere” but still not getting inquiriesHow to audit your first impression (website + social + messaging)Sales + branding: why “branding” is really voice + communicationPricing without emotion: how to use math + data to set prices that actually support your lifeOutcome-based selling: stop selling “hours + number of images” and sell the transformationRaising prices without panic: keeping some clients, losing others, and finding the next pondSystems that prevent burnout: CRM workflows, email templates, SOPs, automationsHiring associate photographers: how to sell “the studio/team” (not just you)If you're serious about building a photography business that lasts, this episode will save you years of trial and error.Find Vanessa:VanessaJoy.com (photo work + corporate work + education)If this helped, subscribe, share it with a photographer friend, and drop a comment: What's harder for you right now — pricing or marketing?If you're building a photography business, want to grow your portrait photography income, or are curious about how to make money from photography online, this conversation is packed with actionable advice.

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Struggling to scale your business because of hiring bottlenecks?In Episode #357 of Spaghetti on the Wall, Michele Lambert—founder of Bella Connections and host of the Aligned Operators podcast—shares how to scale smarter by hiring the right operators, building aligned teams, and implementing systems that actually work.Learn how to avoid costly hiring mistakes, create strong company culture (even remotely), and use AI + SOPs to streamline your operations.In this episode, you'll learn:How to hire the right operator for your businessThe biggest hiring mistakes founders makeWhy alignment and culture matter more than resumesHow AI is changing hiring and team performanceThe role of SOPs and systems in scaling efficientlyHow to build and manage high-performing remote teamsWhether you're running a startup, scaling to 7–8 figures, or building your first team—this episode gives you the blueprint.

What role should AI play in running our business? In this roundtable, Michelle Kline, Daniel Reitman, and Doug Keeling explore the growing role of artificial intelligence in the pet care industry. They discuss practical use cases like data analysis, client support, route optimization, SOP creation, and marketing, while also wrestling with real concerns around environmental impact, ethics, authenticity, and changing job markets. The conversation keeps returning to one central idea: AI should not replace human care, but it can free business owners to spend more time on the parts of the job that matter most. This episode is a nuanced, honest look at how pet care businesses can engage AI without losing their values, relationships, or humanity. Main topics: AI use in operations Ethics and environmental concerns Saving time through automation AI and client experience Future of pet care Main takeaway: "AI should never make care decisions about a living animal. It should never replace a physical caregiver. It should supplement what we do." AI can help us analyze data, improve systems, and buy back time, but it should never replace the human judgment, presence, and compassion that define great pet care. The real opportunity is not to become more robotic in how we run our businesses. It is to become more human by removing some of the busywork that pulls us away from pets, clients, and team members. This episode is a thoughtful discussion about how to use new tools without losing the heart of what we do. About our guests: Michelle K. is the founder of Dog Co Launch, where she helps pet care business owners build stronger systems, scale sustainably, and think more strategically about growth. She brings a coaching perspective to this conversation, especially around operations, data, and the ethical limits of AI in service-based businesses. Michelle is deeply focused on helping businesses adapt without losing the human relationships that make their work meaningful. Daniel Reitman is the owner of Dan's Pet Care and is known for asking hard questions and pushing the industry to think bigger about operations, technology, and standards of care. He is an early adopter of AI tools and has been exploring how they can support data analysis, staff communication, customer experience, and business scalability. Daniel brings both enthusiasm and urgency to conversations about how quickly this technology is changing the landscape. Doug Keeling is the founder of Bad to the Bone Pet Care and a respected voice in pet care hiring, leadership, and business development. Though he describes himself as a later adopter of AI, Doug has found meaningful ways to use it for SOPs, training, data analysis, and administrative efficiency. He brings a grounded, thoughtful perspective to the conversation, especially around environmental impact and using AI in ways that create more time for relationships and community care. Links: Michelle Kline (DogCo Launch) Dog Co Secrets PodcastListen on Apple Podcasts Grow Your Daily Dog Walking Business with Dog Co Launch Doug Keeling (Doug the Dog Guy) YouTube Doug the Dog Guy YouTube channel example video Instagram @dougthedogguyofficial Daniel Reitman FacebookDaniel Reitman Facebook page Instagram@danielreitman LinkedInDaniel Reitman LinkedIn profile AI Tools Mentioned ChatGPT (OpenAI) https://chatgpt.com Claude (Anthropic) https://claude.ai Gemini (Google) https://gemini.google.com Elicit (AI research tool)Elicit official site Check out our Starter Packs See all of our discounts! Check out ProTrainings Code: CPR-petsitterconfessional for 10% off

Are you in need of building a resilient business? Do you ignore cash flow warning signs, risk mitigation, or the urgency of systems strategy? Then today's episode with Sonya Corkery is for you. Business consultant Sonya Corkery discusses building resilient businesses through strong financial foundations, systems, and risk mitigation. Sonya shares how early work in her family's struggling service-station businesses taught her resilience, customer service skills, and a disciplined approach to money, then traces her rapid rise in banking, from bank manager at 23 to financial planning during the GFC, where she refused to push unsuitable products. She explains how her family's electrical contracting business nearly collapsed when three builders liquidated, leaving almost $1M unpaid and only five days of operating capital, but they recovered within 12 months through strategy and support from suppliers and advisors. Sonya clearly defines her consulting approach: entity setup and asset protection, cash-flow forecasting, break-even clarity, streamlined SOPs, fractional teams, diversification, and AI, and planning to build your business as if it were being sold tomorrow. To learn more about Sonya Corkery, check out the links below.  https://clearplanconsulting.com.au/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonya-corkery-a326238b/https://www.instagram.com/clearplanconsulting/00:00 Business on the Brink01:11 Podcast Welcome and Setup04:42 Sonya's Early Work Lessons08:29 Family Crisis and Survival10:52 Resilience and Money Mindset12:41 Banking Career Rise16:39 Ethics Under Pressure19:14 Joining the Family Business21:48 Builders Collapse Fallout25:34 Turning Advice Into Consulting27:26 Service Offerings Breakdown28:26 When To Get Help28:55 Cashflow And Forecasting Basics31:28 Asset Protection Foundations34:27 Implementation And Risk Planning36:31 Growth Trends And AI39:14 Industries And Diversification41:12 Speaking With Shock And Awe44:12 Fractional Teams And Board46:01 Where To Find Sonya Corkery47:30 Final Sign Off

In This Episode What happens when a business relies too heavily on one client—and loses it overnight? For Matt Strippelhoff, that moment became the catalyst for building a more resilient, system-driven company. In this episode, Adi Klevit interviews Matt Strippelhoff, Partner and CEO of Red Hawk Technologies, about how he transformed his business from a project-based model into a scalable, subscription-based system. After experiencing a significant revenue loss, Matt re-evaluated what his ideal clients truly needed and rebuilt his company around long-term partnerships, predictability, and structured service delivery. Adi and Matt dive into the critical role of standard operating procedures (SOPs) in scaling a business. Matt explains how clearly defined processes eliminate reliance on tribal knowledge, create accountability across teams, and provide leadership with real-time visibility into operations. These systems enabled his company to grow significantly while maintaining consistency and quality. The conversation also explores the intersection of AI and processes. Matt emphasizes that AI cannot replace well-documented systems—in fact, it depends on them. Organizations that lack clear processes and clean data will struggle to implement AI effectively, while those with strong SOPs can leverage AI to enhance efficiency, reporting, and decision-making.  

Industrial Talk is onsite at Xcelerate 2026 and talking to Jay Hack and Navin Kulkarni about "eMaint and the impact AI has on asset management". At Fluke's Xcelerate 2026 event, Jay Hack and Navin Kulkarni introduced new AI features in eMaint, a maintenance management system. They highlighted four key features: AI-driven email data interaction, SOP generation from OEM manuals, natural language work order creation, and multilingual document translation. The AI features received significant interest, with 40 customers eager to join the beta test. The system ensures data quality, supports structured data ingestion, and allows for real-time updates. Future plans include enhancing work order management and leveraging historical data for better decision-making and asset management. Outline Xcelerate 2026 Event Overview Scott introduces the Industrial Talk podcast, highlighting the importance of industrial professionals and the event Xcelerate 2026.Scott mentions the event's focus on real-world strategies, predictive maintenance tools, and AI diagnostics.Scott emphasizes the importance of attending the event and mentions the swag received on site.Scott introduces Jay Hack and Navin Kulkarni, who have been on the hot seat before. Introduction of AI Features in eMaint Jay Hack announces the launch of their first AI features in eMaint, which were well-received during the intro presentation.Jay mentions that 40 customers in the audience wanted to sign up for the beta test immediately.Navin confirms positive feedback from customers and customer success managers.Jay and Navin discuss the importance of AI in improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. AI Assistant for Email Data Interaction Jay explains the AI assistant feature that allows users to interact with email data in a chat GPT-style fashion.Jay provides a use case where users can query the system to get intelligent responses about asset information.Navin discusses how the AI assistant improves access to historical work orders and other data without the need for additional queries.Jay emphasizes the importance of having good quality data for the AI assistant to be effective. SOP Generation and Document Digitization Jay introduces the SOP generation feature, which allows users to upload OEM repair manuals and generate preventive maintenance procedures.Jay explains that the SOPs need to be validated by the customer to ensure accuracy.Navin discusses the process of digitizing user manuals and other documents to make them accessible through the AI assistant.Jay and Navin highlight the benefits of having the latest and most accurate documentation available in real-time. Work Order Generation and Prioritization Jay introduces the work order generation feature, which allows users to create work orders by speaking into their smartphones.Navin discusses how the feature can help prioritize work orders based on their criticality and importance.Jay and Navin emphasize the importance of having a complete and contextualized work order to improve maintenance operations.Navin mentions that the roadmap includes allowing users to close work orders through the system. Translation and Language Support Jay introduces the translation feature, which allows users to translate dense documentation into other languages.Jay explains that the feature is particularly useful for customers operating in multiple countries.Navin discusses the process of validating translated information and the importance of having accurate translations.Jay and Navin highlight the benefits of having a multilingual AI solution to support global operations. Future of AI in Maintenance Operations Jay discusses the future possibilities of using AI to track and analyze asset data and maintenance tech proficiency.Jay mentions that AI can help infer the rate of learning and competency of maintenance techs.Navin discusses the potential for normalizing data across different geographic locations to improve decision-making.Jay and Navin emphasize the importance of having a secure and reliable AI solution to support maintenance operations. Conclusion and Contact Information Jay and Navin provide their contact information for listeners who want to connect with them on LinkedIn.Scott wraps up the podcast, encouraging listeners to attend Xcelerate 2027 and connect with industry professionals.Scott emphasizes the importance of being bold, brave, and innovative in the industrial field.The podcast concludes with a reminder to stay tuned for future episodes and events. 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If you run a 1–2 location med spa and want the option to scale or sell in the next few years, the way you build your business today determines whether buyers see opportunity—or risk. In this episode, I sit down with Audrey Neff, Chief Marketing Officer at Aviva Aesthetics, to unpack what actually drives enterprise value in an aesthetics practice.  We talk about how the industry is evolving beyond traditional private equity rollups, why owner-operators often expand too early, and what it takes to build a med spa that's attractive to partners, lenders, or investors. The goal isn't to rush toward an exit—it's to operate your practice in a way that gives you options.  The Enterprise Value Problem Most Med Spas Miss  The underlying financial challenge throughout this conversation is enterprise value—specifically how med spa owners unintentionally limit the value of their practice when expansion decisions outpace operational structure.  Many aesthetics practices grow revenue quickly but fail to build the systems, leadership structure, and financial discipline that make growth transferable. Enterprise value increases when your med spa can operate predictably, profitably, and without constant owner intervention.  The Financial Signals That Tell You Whether You're Ready to Scale  Tune in to learn several operational and financial realities that determine whether a med spa becomes a scalable asset or remains owner-dependent income.  • Why many med spa owners open a second location too early • How provider utilization reveals whether your practice is actually ready to expand • What private buyers and investors evaluate when assessing enterprise value • Why EBITDA quality matters more than top-line revenue growth • How service mix diversification protects margins and reduces operational risk • Why leadership development and culture directly impact the value of your practice  Operational Moves That Increase Enterprise Value  If you're serious about increasing the enterprise value of your med spa, these are operational fundamentals I recommend focusing on.  Providers should be operating at roughly 80% utilization or higher before you consider opening another location. Expanding without demand simply multiplies overhead.  Many aesthetic practices overcomplicate provider pay. Standardized compensation models—often around 20% of provider-generated revenue—help protect margins while keeping incentives clear.  Repeatable processes for treatment delivery, patient intake, scheduling, and reporting create operational consistency and reduce owner dependency.  Over-reliance on a single revenue category—such as injectables or trending treatments—can destabilize cash flow and weaken enterprise value. Balanced treatment portfolios create more predictable revenue.  Before You Open Location #2 or Beyond  Opening an additional med spa location often feels like the natural next step—but expansion before operational maturity can create significant financial risk.  Before scaling, ask yourself:  • Are providers already near full utilization? • Are systems and SOPs strong enough to replicate operations in a second location? • Does your leadership team have the capacity to manage additional staff and patients?  Scaling multiplies both strengths and weaknesses. When your operational structure is solid, a second location increases enterprise value. When it isn't, it simply multiplies chaos.  Preparing Your Med Spa for Future Enterprise Value  If you want to understand how your med spa's financial structure impacts scalability, start with the Financial Scaling Playbook for Aesthetics. Get it today: www.keepwhatyouearn/playbook   Inside the free series, I walk through:  • Offer profit analysis • Operating margin benchmarks for med spas • Cash flow management for growing practices • Customer lifetime value and retention strategy • Enterprise value readiness for aesthetic clinics  Connect with Audrey and Aviva Aesthetics:  Audrey Neff brings more than a decade of experience in the medical aesthetics and wellness industries and currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Aviva Aesthetics. A respected marketing strategist and global speaker, she has served as a key opinion leader for several leading aesthetic brands and has taught for more than 30 medical aesthetic associations worldwide. 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BONUS: Guardrails Over Processes—How to Scale Teams Without Killing Creativity What actually slows down tech teams—lack of talent, or lack of ownership? In this episode, Prashanth Tondapu shares lessons from leading through global-scale failures, scaling from a small team to a 100-person company, and discovering why guardrails beat rigid processes when it comes to building teams that own outcomes and execute with discipline. Diffusion of Accountability: When Everyone Is Responsible, Nobody Is "Crisis is not the problem. Crisis is the one that uncovers the problem that has always existed."   Early in his career, Prashanth witnessed a large-scale failure at a major technology company—not because the team lacked talent, but because accountability had become diffused. When too many people are responsible for something, it translates to nobody being responsible. The team was brilliant individually, but there was no clear demarcation of who owned what outcome. On good days, everything worked. But when things went wrong, there was no single person who could no longer delegate accountability to someone else. In this segment, we also refer to the concept from Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. Prashant argues for: outcome can only come with 100% emotional commitment to a particular problem, and when five people share that commitment, each carries only 20%. That's where breakdowns happen. The Leadership Design Problem: From Computers to People "I was a developer who imagined that humans are also going to be as predictable as computers. Until 6 or 7 people, it works well because you can be everywhere. But as soon as we increased above 7, I was not able to be everywhere."   Prashanth's journey as a founder mirrors what many tech leaders experience at scale. Starting Innostax at 27 as a developer with no management experience, he initially treated people like predictable systems. Below seven people, it worked—he could be the hero founder, the catch-all. But beyond that threshold, he had to learn delegation, which meant learning to trust. First came the people-dependent phase, then the process-oriented phase with SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for everything—even how APIs should look. The SOPs made the team fast at execution, but their clients noticed something troubling: "Your guys do not even ask any questions." The rigid processes had suppressed the very creativity and critical thinking they needed. That feedback became the catalyst for the next evolution: becoming a people-first company. Guardrails vs. Processes: Freeing Creativity Within Structure "If something goes wrong, our guardrail is: we will just ask you one question—what was your intent behind doing this?"   Prashanth draws a sharp distinction between processes and guardrails. Processes tell you exactly what to do and how to do it—they create predictable execution but kill creativity. Guardrails define the boundaries within which people have freedom to be creative and solve problems their own way. At Innostax, guardrails take practical forms:   Time-on-task guardrails: If a task takes longer than expected, ask for help—don't rabbit-hole into it for three days Don't be a hero: When friction appears with a client or a problem, escalate early rather than trying to solve everything alone The intent review: When something goes wrong, instead of punishment, they ask three questions—was the intent right, was the approach right, and what was the outcome? If intent and approach were right but it still failed, that's the company's problem, not the individual's   This framework creates psychological safety while maintaining accountability. People know they won't be penalized for honest mistakes made with good intent, which means they surface problems early rather than hiding them. Vision Elements and the People-First Company "The outcome is not just what is expected, but outcome also consists of what is not expected. People come out in so many creative, great ways that they end up surprising you."   The shift to a people-first company meant replacing rigid SOPs with what Prashanth calls "vision elements"—broader directional guidance like "we are working for the client, we need to give the best for the client in the resources that we have." This gives teams a larger sandbox to work in while guardrails prevent them from going too far off course.  The daily rhythm includes team leads reviewing work summaries—not to micromanage, but to catch misalignment early and offer support. Prashanth emphasizes that guardrails must be created with emotional intelligence and detachment. If you create guardrails assuming you're also part of the problem, they'll be biased and ineffective. That's why he considers emotional intelligence the prerequisite skill for any leader designing team structures. The Books That Changed Everything "Whenever I was reading through the fixed mindset guy, it was like it was describing me. And that actually changed everything."   Prashanth recommends two foundational books for leaders building ownership-driven teams. First, Mindset by Carol Dweck—a book that cracked his own fixed mindset as a confident developer who thought he knew everything. Reading about the fixed mindset felt like reading his own biography, and that uncomfortable recognition opened him to listening more, seeking exposure to experts, and believing there were perspectives he hadn't encountered yet. Second, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman—because without mastering emotional intelligence, everything you hear feels personal, clouding your judgment and making you too close to the problem to design effective solutions for your team.   Self-reflection Question: Are you building guardrails that give your team freedom to be creative within clear boundaries, or are you still writing processes that tell people exactly what to do—and in the process, suppressing the very thinking you hired them for?   About Prashanth Tondapu Prashanth Tondapu is Founder and CEO of Innostax and a veteran technology leader. He's led teams through high-stakes global incidents at McAfee and scaled disciplined delivery organizations worldwide. His work focuses on ownership, accountability, and designing teams for predictable, sustainable execution as complexity grows.   You can link with Prashanth Tondapu on LinkedIn.

Raising your prices may feel risky, but if you don't, you're eroding your margins and killing profitability over time. So reframe your mindset and adopt this healthy business practice.  Protect your business, preserve memberships—and ditch the anxiety—with Matt Hanton and Conor McGarry in Episode 717: How to Raise Your Prices Without Losing Clients.  Set expectations: normalize annual price increases to keep up with inflation Run the numbers: calculate your unit economics and break-even rate Reward loyalty: offer existing members bumps below market rate with levers  Command buy-in: lay out the rationale clearly and ensure confidence in your team Be transparent: give advance notice and break down where the dollars go Price increases shouldn't trigger guilt or shame—they should be SOPs. Planning, communication and commitment are your critical success factors. Unpack them in Episode 717. Catch you there, Lise   PS: Join 2,000+ studio owners who've decided to take control of their studio business and build their freedom empire. Subscribe HERE and join the party! www.studiogrow.co www.linkedin.com/company/studio-growco/  

Priten Soundar-Shah is back on the HiTech Podcast for the first time since episode 133 — and the conversation picks up right where the world left off. After his first book, AI and the Future of Education, sparked a movement in classrooms everywhere, Priten found himself watching institutions sprint headfirst into AI adoption without stopping to ask the hard questions. His response? A new book: Ethical EdTech. Josh and Will dig into what an ethics framework for education technology actually looks like, why borrowing from bioethics might be the move, and how schools, vendors, and policymakers all share a seat at the table. From top-down policy failures to the real risks of leaving communities behind in the AI race, this one gets deep — and it's exactly the conversation the edtech space needs right now.

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Would you like access to our advanced agency training for FREE? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training How are you protecting yourself from the real risk of owner burnout? Agency owners often burn out because they built a business that depends entirely on them. Today's featured guest is a former agency owner turned AI SaaS founder. He'll unpack what really caused his agency collapse, what he learned from it, and how he rebuilt from a completely different role. Austin Armstrong is the owner of Syllaby, a tool for social media marketing that helps users create their very own realistic digital clone to personalize their marketing efforts, allowing them to forge a deeper connection with their audience. Austin spent over a decade in the agency world, working his way up from intern to running an agency before launching his own. For a while, it worked, until the cracks appeared. His agency was built around organic marketing and heavily centered on his personal brand. High months meant hiring fast. Low months meant wondering if payroll would clear. When a few large clients (that accounted for about 60% of monthly revenue) churned, the instability became unbearable. So Austin made his tech pivot and moved to starting Syllaby, which also came with a role pivot. More recently, he just released his first book Virality and is the co-founder of the upcoming AI marketing World conference. In this episode, we'll discuss: From agency failure to early AI adopter Why the founder bottleneck is emotional The founder evolution model AI exposes weaknesses Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources This episode is brought to you by Wix Studio: If you're leveling up your team and your client experience, your site builder should keep up too. That's why successful agencies use Wix Studio — built to adapt the way your agency does: AI-powered site mapping, responsive design, flexible workflows, and scalable CMS tools so you spend less on plugins and more on growth. Ready to design faster and smarter? Go to wix.com/studio to get started. Making the Decision to Be an Early Adopter When he started Syllaby, Austin could already see the writing on the wall with AI. He was already not happy navigating the agency world, so the question was, "Do I want to place a bet as an early adopter of this technology? Potentially cannibalizing my own agency?" He spoke with several clients and business owners and came to the conclusion that most people hire an agency because they know they need to create content to be relevant, but didn't know how to pick the right topics, and in many cases didn't want to be on camera. They needed help staying consistent and accountable. Some of them don't even have the money to hire an agency, but still have a message and an expertise to share. So Austin started to look for ways to automate those processes using AI. The Founder Bottleneck Is Emotional Before It's Operational The emotional weight of the unraveling of Austin's agency was real. Nightmares about client complaints. Constant vigilance. Inability to disconnect. Eventually, he decided to make a bet on AI and launched Syllaby, an AI-powered content platform designed to automate much of what agencies manually execute, from topic discovery to scripting to publishing. Now, looking back, he sees his agency's failure came from several mistakes. It wasn't bad marketing or lack of demand. It was structural dependency. The agency relied on: His personal brand His client relationships His decision-making His emotional capacity When large clients churned, revenue collapsed because concentration risk hadn't been designed out of the model. When delivery required nuance, he couldn't step away because "he stirred the pot." This is the Operator trap. The Founder Evolution Model Most founders believe they own an agency. In reality, the agency owns them. What is supposed to happen as your agency evolves is that your role in it evolves as follows: Operator → Manager → Architect → CEO → Owner At the Operator level: Sales depends on you. Delivery depends on you. Escalations go to you. Pricing goes through you. And when you focus on one area, another suffers. Systems Create Freedom But They Also Create Identity Shifts As the owner, being needed feels good and letting go feels disorienting. Austin acknowledged this tension. In his agency, clients wanted him. Even with SOPs, some work required nuance. Some of it was ego. Some of it was positioning. Some of it was hiring the wrong people in the wrong seats. Having learned his lesson, things look very different in his SaaS company, where he can rely on strong partners, defined ownership, AI-supported workflows, and clear decision rights. Now he can disappear for two weeks, go skiing with family, speak at events, and the business doesn't break. AI Exposes Weakness All over the industry owners agree that AI isn't replacing strong agencies. It's exposing weak ones. At Syllaby, Austin has integrated AI so much is hard to think where he DOESN'T use it. He automates what many agencies sell manually: SEO-based topic discovery Script generation Video creation Scheduling and publishing For smaller businesses, this lowers the barrier to entry. For agencies, it creates leverage. Which tool are owners using? This varies from time to time. What you should be doing is testing them all out to see which ones work better for you, as well as creating a brief with all the information you'll need in case you decide to migrate to a different tool. Jason calls this his "AI Operating Brief", a master document loaded with: Company positioning Customer data Success stories CRM insights Transcripts Strategic principles Once embedded into AI tools, it eliminates repetitive context-setting and removes founder bottlenecks. Austin does something similar with what he calls his "Austin Codex", years of content, frameworks, and intellectual property housed inside AI models. The result is institutional memory without constant founder involvement. Time Audits Reveal the Hidden Ceiling Austin is a big fan of the full-time audit exercise: For one to two weeks, document: Every task Start and end times Whether it's mandatory or optional Your enjoyment level The dollar value of your time The outcome is uncomfortable. Once you're done, you'll see which $10 tasks eating $1,000/hour time, the emotional drain disguised as "important work", and the distractions masquerading as urgency. He outsourced email management, calendar coordination, travel booking — all consolidated into a daily executive summary delivered where he actually spends time. Not because he can't do it, but because he shouldn't. The bigger lesson: you don't scale an agency… you outgrow your role. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

Send a textAndy Yakulis—West Point graduate, former Army pilot, and Special Operations officer turned defense tech entrepreneur—joins Joe to talk about leadership, transition, and the rapidly changing nature of modern warfare.Recruited to West Point just days before September 11th, Andy entered the Army knowing he would serve during a generation defined by war. After flying Kiowa Warrior helicopters and spending nearly a decade in Special Operations, he became increasingly frustrated with the gap between the technology soldiers used in combat and what existed in the civilian world.Together, they discuss Andy's decision to leave the Army at 18 years to start Vector, a company focused on unmanned systems, as well as the challenges of military transition, the realities of leadership in the private sector, and how paying attention to what captures your curiosity might reveal the work you're meant to pursue.Watch the full interview on YouTube!Joe and Andy also discuss:Why physical fitness and sleep still shape Andy's decision-making as a CEOThe value of civilian education for military leadersThe “Saturday morning coffee test” for discovering what you're passionate aboutWhy veterans shouldn't feel pressure to find the perfect post-military job immediatelyThe challenge of leading teams in the private sectorWhy the future of warfare may shift from one operator controlling one drone to one operator orchestrating manyWhether you're transitioning out of the military, exploring entrepreneurship, or curious how technology is changing warfare, this episode offers insights on leadership, innovation, and pursuing work you feel called to do.A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors!Veteran-founded Adyton. Step into the next generation of equipment management with Log-E by Adyton. Whether you are doing monthly inventories or preparing for deployment, Log-E is your pocket property book, giving real-time visibility into equipment status and mission readiness. Learn more about how Log-E can revolutionize your property tracking process here!Dunedain Systems is a veteran-founded defense technology company building Warmind, an AI platform that accelerates military planning, operations, and document generation. Warmind connects to your unit's data and learns how your warfighting function operates, delivering outputs tailored to your SOPs and operational context rather than generic AI responses. Whether your team is building OPORDs, running intel workflows, or generating CONOPs, Warmind handles the heavy lift so your staff can focus on decisions, not paperwork. Built by combat veterans who lived the problem firsthand, Warmind is already in use across SOCOM and the broader DoD. The beta is free for anyone with a .mil or .edu email at dunedainsystems.com.Meet ROGER Bank—a modern, digital bank built for military members, by military members. With early payday, no fees, high-yield accounts, and real support, it's banking that gets you. Funds are FDIC insured through Citizens Bank of Edmond, so you can bank with confidence and peace of mind. Logistics Systems Incorporated (LSI) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business supporting DoD and federal civilian agencies with enterprise IT operations, global logistics support, cybersecurity, data, and mission support services. Founded by a veteran Army leader, LSI is known for operating inside

The fastest-growing insurance agencies are not doing more work. They are doing the right work.Mike Stromsoe welcomes Dominic Piccirillo, co-founder of Elevate Teams and former insurance agency owner. Dominic shares how outsourcing and team augmentation can unlock massive growth for independent agencies while freeing licensed staff to focus on revenue generating work.You will learn how agencies can delegate up to 70–80% of routine tasks, build stronger systems with SOPs, and create a win for owners, team members, and global talent.Key HighlightsHow Dominic's journey from intern to agency owner shaped his approach to building better teams.The moment he realized most agency tasks did not require licensed staff.How outsourcing routine work allows account managers to focus on revenue and relationships.Why Elevate Teams focuses on augmenting staff rather than replacing employees.How structured training and vetting creates higher quality remote team members.The new SOP service that helps agencies document systems and scale faster.Chapters 00:00 Why growing agencies need better team structure 01:05 Dominic's path from intern to insurance agency owner 04:30 The breaking point that led to outsourcing 06:23 How Elevate Teams was created 07:23 The win win win model for agencies and global talent 09:14 The types of roles Elevate Teams provides 12:10 Why SOPs and systems are critical for scaling 14:01 How much agency work can really be outsourced 17:17 Overcoming concerns about hiring remote talent 21:00 How Elevate Teams matches agencies with the right people 25:24 Final advice for agency owners looking to scale About Dominic Piccirillo: Dominic is an entrepreneur and founder of The Cody Group. He began his career in the insurance industry as an intern in 2006 at The Mogil Organization eventually moving to The Excelsior Group six years later. After gaining valuable industry experience by working in the commercial, personal, and claims departments, Dominic decided to start his own brokerage in 2014. Doing so has allowed him to build a company culture that is hard- working, fun and energetic alongside a client base of similarly minded people. Dominic Co-Founded Elevate Teams in 2022. When he's not working he is an avid surfer, golfer, and snowboarder.

GRAB the Business System Scorecard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J_uByJkkmaJFMkqxU0wEP5g2lgYVdRwc/view?usp=sharing In this video, I'm breaking down why 7-figure business owners build systems that don't actually work and what you need to do differently to build systems that run without you. I work with business owners every week who have documented everything, built SOPs, set up automation, and they're still working 60, 80, even 100 hours a week. Still the bottleneck in every decision. Still can't take a vacation without their phone blowing up. They built systems that need to be followed instead of systems that actually run.  I'm showing you the three questions to ask yourself to figure out if you have a system that runs or just documentation that requires you, and what this design flaw is actually costing you when your systems are fragile instead of self-sustaining. Connect with me: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacytuschl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacytuschl/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stacytuschl/ Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7396626889408274432/ 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - Your Team Isn't The Problem 03:03 - How To Know If Your Systems Work 05:41 - What Not Having Systems Is Costing You  07:25 - The Difference Between Good And Bad Systems 13:27 - The Shift You Need #businesssystems #businessoperations #scalingsystems #systemsthinking  Disclaimer: The strategies and frameworks I share are based on my 15+ years of building and scaling businesses, not overnight success. What I teach works, but your results depend entirely on your execution, your market, and your commitment to building systems consistently. This is educational content, not a guarantee. Business growth requires real work, strategic decisions, and the discipline to stick with what actually moves the needle. Evaluate your own circumstances, assess your risks, and take full ownership of your outcomes. That's what well-oiled business owners do.

Most businesses are starting to use AI. But most are using it the wrong way. In this episode, we break down the biggest mistake business owners make with AI and how to actually use tools like ChatGPT and other AI platforms to improve decision making, save time, and scale operations. Many entrepreneurs treat AI like Google asking simple questions or using it to write a quick post. But the real opportunity is much bigger. AI can become a board of advisors, a business coach, and a decision-making tool when used the right way. We talk about practical ways business owners are integrating AI into their companies, including creating custom GPTs, using AI to analyze deals and documents, building SOPs faster, and helping teams work more efficiently. Topics covered in this episode: • The biggest AI mistake most businesses are making • Why using AI like Google is holding people back • How to turn AI into your business advisor • Using ChatGPT projects for different areas of your company • Creating custom GPTs for departments and employees • Training AI using your emails, posts, and SOPs • Using AI to review documents, NDAs, and opportunities • Why learning how to prompt AI properly is becoming a critical skill AI isn't replacing business owners. But business owners who understand how to use AI will move faster, make better decisions, and gain a major advantage. If you're tired of doing business solo and guessing your way through deals: Check out BoardRoom Elite and get in the room with operators, investors, and owners who are actually doing this every day.

The Marketing Stack for Home Service Businesses: From $1M to $10MWhat should home service companies actually spend on marketing at $1 million, $5 million, and $10 million?In this episode, John Wilson sits down with Ethan Wright of Service Scalers to break down the real marketing stack for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies at every stage of growth. They cover what changes as you scale, what stays the same, and where most owners waste money too early.If you run an HVAC, plumbing, or electrical business and want a clearer roadmap for how to think about marketing as you grow, this episode lays it out.In this episode, we cover:The best marketing priorities for home service companies from $1M to $10MWhy lead generation matters more than branding in the early stagesHow reviews, LSA, aggregators, and speed-to-lead drive growthWhen PPC, SEO, and lifecycle marketing become more importantWhy most owners hire for marketing too earlyHow pricing impacts your ability to buy leads profitablyHost: John Wilson https://x.com/WilsonCompanies Guest: Ethan Wright linkedin.com/in/ethanwrighttx

In this episode of the Greenside Up Podcast, Jason and Jordan continue their deep dive into real-world sales processes for landscape and tree care businesses. Jason recaps his trip to the Leanscaper operations intensive and shares how tools like Lana AI, SOPs, and "lean boards" can streamline communication and checklists—along with the real financial and implementation challenges. They talk about tool management, the impact of employees who care (or don't), layoffs, a values-based termination, and what it feels like to run lean with just two days of work on the books. Jason then walks through his design-build sales approach, from pre-visit confirmations and on-site discovery questions to quick visual concepts and aiming to close in the $10–15K range on-site. Jordan follows with his tree-care sales workflow, focusing on education, helping clients choose between prolonging or removing trees, and always ending with a clear, verbal recap of the scope. They wrap by previewing their upcoming TCI / SingleOps webinar and teasing a future episode on business development and growth strategy. Connect with Jason and Jordan:

What does it actually look like when a top-producing loan officer stops dabbling with AI and fully embeds it into every layer of his mortgage business? In this episode of Mortgage Marketing Radio, guest host Katie Shive sits down with Abdel Khawatmi — Area Manager and founder of Got Mortgages with PRMG — to break down the exact system behind 121 units, $40M in personal production, and 210% net revenue growth year over year. This is not a conversation about generating social media captions with ChatGPT. This is a ground-level look at how a working originator rebuilt his operations, client experience, and team structure around AI — and what that means for every loan officer trying to compete right now. What you'll learn: Why Abdel cut his offshore team from 7 to 3 — and what AI does instead How he uses ChatGPT to calculate Schedule C & E income, build SOPs, and draft compliant letters of explanation Why he's on the phone with clients MORE since implementing AI — not less The hyperlocal event strategy that his referral partners can't stop talking about His ROI framework: Relevance, Omnipresence & Intimacy The 4-step client experience model that keeps his pipeline full without him being the first touch The one thing he tells every loan officer who asks, "where do I start?" If you are a loan officer grinding in a tough market and wondering how to build a smarter, leaner, more profitable business — this is the episode you have been waiting for. Connect with Abdel on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdel-khawatmi-79a511144/ Connect with Abdel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/got_mortgages/ Connect with Katie Shive on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katieshive/

One of the biggest traps entrepreneurs fall into is thinking:“I'll just do it myself.” At first it feels efficient. But over time, it becomes the exact reason your business stops growing. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why delegation is one of the most important skills a founder must learn if they want to scale. When you try to control every task, every message, and every decision, you create a ceiling for your business that's limited by your own time and energy. The truth is, a real business isn't built on one person doing everything—it's built on systems, trust, and a team that can execute without constant supervision. In this episode, you'll learn: Why perfectionism is often just disguised control How accepting 80% execution from a team member can unlock massive growth Why building systems and SOPs creates freedom and scalability How founders transition from doing everything to leading effectively If you want to scale your company without burning out, this episode will help you rethink delegation and build a structure where your business grows beyond your personal capacity. Because the truth is simple:If your business can't run without you doing everything, you don't own a business—you own a job. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024 Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQ LinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marketing feels chaotic because most businesses are chasing tactics without a system to support them. In this episode, John Jantsch and Sara Nay explain why a marketing operating system brings clarity, accountability, and predictable growth. They walk through how strategy comes first, how campaigns turn strategy into action, and why systems create long-term business value. If marketing feels scattered or hard to measure, this conversation shows how to turn chaos into a repeatable system that actually works. *This is a rerun of a previous DTM episode. Today we discussed: 00:00 Why Marketing Feels Chaotic in 2025 02:21 What a Marketing OS Is and Why It Matters 04:53 Strategy-First Marketing for Small Business 08:14 Turning Strategy Into Marketing Campaigns 09:25 SOPs and Workstream Engine for Marketing 12:54 How AI Fits Into Modern Marketing Systems 15:24 Scorecards, Metrics and Marketing Dashboards 17:57 Monthly Momentum Meetings for Marketing Teams 20:27 Quarterly Optimization for Better Results 22:33 Agency vs Fractional CMO Service Models 24:32 Book a Call Rate, Review, & Follow If you liked this episode, please rate and review the show. Let us know what you loved most about the episode. Struggling with strategy? Unlock your free AI-powered prompts now and start building a winning strategy today!

Points of Interest 00:00 – 03:21 – From UGURUS to E2M: Brent Weaver shares how he went from coaching thousands of agencies at UGURUS to becoming CEO of E2M Solutions after the DigitalOcean chapter ended. 03:35 – 04:51 – What makes E2M different: Marcel frames E2M as a standout white-label partner, and Brent explains why serving only agencies creates sharper focus on partner success. 04:51 – 08:16 – Process flexibility as a moat: Brent contrasts “one standardized process” versus adapting to each agency partner's SOPs and tools and why fitting into the partner's workflow improves outcomes. 08:27 – 10:08 – Why anti-fragility matters right now: Marcel connects E2M's adaptability to the broader need for agencies to stay resilient through another major disruption cycle. 10:08 – 12:01 – Defining anti-fragility in business terms: Brent explains anti-fragility as building a business that can withstand shocks by avoiding fragility drivers like thin margins and operational vulnerabilities. 12:01 – 15:53 – Practical fragility reducers: Brent outlines concrete levers, higher margins as a buffer, less debt, fewer single points of failure, and building teams and systems that scale. 13:29 – 15:53 – Perennial value drivers: Brent argues agencies should anchor decisions to what clients always want, faster delivery, lower cost, and higher quality and certainty, regardless of the economy. 15:53 – 18:01 – Investing under uncertainty: Marcel reframes strategy as betting on what will not change and asks how agencies can choose investments that will keep paying dividends. 18:01 – 22:44 – AI audits, not shiny tools: Brent describes E2M's AI assessment approach as constraint-hunting, then using automation and process optimization to reduce friction and accelerate results. 23:08 – 25:02 – High-impact AI use cases: Brent lists repeatable agency wins, lead research and sales prep, proposal and scope automation, and workflow-friendly tooling like Slack-based automations. 25:02 – 26:45 – Client reporting as a force multiplier: Brent highlights AI-driven reporting and analysis, using chat interfaces connected to analytics data to produce consistent client insights faster. 39:51 – 41:13 – Where to learn more: Brent shares where to find E2M Solutions and the Vistara AI event, including the May 11–13 Austin dates and the waitlist link. Show Notes List Agentic workflows - AI workflows E2M actively run for 50+ agencies - ready to plug into your delivery, sales, and operations E2Msolutions.com Vistara AI Event @ Austin, Texas on May 11-13, 2026 Brent's LinkedIn Love the Podcast Leave us a review here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Many people think that once you buy a business, you're set for life. But the reality is, there's a lot of hard work that comes before you can reap the rewards. In this episode, Gabrielle Rubenstein takes us through her first year as an entrepreneur after acquiring Ace-Pak Products in 2024. From navigating the challenges of scaling to overcoming the growing pains that come with ownership, she shares the lessons learned, the surprises along the way, and how she's turned her acquisition into a thriving, growing business. Tune in for an honest conversation about the ups, downs, and everything in between in that crucial first year after buying a business.   In this episode, you will: Learn how to evaluate acquisition risk using worst-case scenario analysis Understand how SBA leverage can amplify returns and risk Discover why systems and clean financials drive business value   Highlights: (00:00) Meet Gabrielle Rubenstein (03:42) Women navigating entrepreneurship (10:59) Financial sensitivity and customer concentration (14:56) SBA leverage and return expectations (19:53) Moving from Sage to QuickBooks (23:37) Competing with industry giants (25:39) Credit apps and transition mistakes (28:08) Using advisors for smoother integration (29:27) Growth strategy and ideal customer profile (32:49) Systems, SOPs, and clean financials   Resources: For past guests, please visit https://www.defendersofbusinessvalue.com/   Follow Gabrielle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-rubenstein/ Learn more about Ace-Pak Products: https://ace-pak.com/ Follow Ed: Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmysogland/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/defendersofbusinessvalue/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bvdefenders

This week's episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Lina Pael.   Did your virtual assistant quit… or does it feel like you are doing all the thinking anyway? Join us as Lina Pael shares what really changes when a VA is trained to lead instead of just complete tasks.   In this practical and honest conversation, you'll learn: -Why most virtual assistant hiring processes fail before the work even starts. -How one simple interview question reveals confidence and clarity fast. -The difference between long SOPs and clear Super Toolkits that actually get used. -How daily scrum meetings stop confusion and keep everyone on the same page. -Why multitasking causes mistakes and what to do instead. -How to help a VA think ahead instead of waiting for instructions. -What makes a virtual assistant feel confident, trusted, and independent. -The real reason VAs burn out and leave.   This episode pulls back the curtain on how to build a virtual assistant who leads, solves problems, and grows with your business.   Win The Hour, Win The Day! www.winthehourwintheday.com   Podcast: Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winthehourwintheday/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/win-the-hour-win-the-day-podcast  

If you're a physician with at least 5 years of experience looking for a flexible, non-clinical, part-time medical-legal consulting role… ...Dr. Armin Feldman's Medical Legal Coaching program will guarantee to add $100K in additional income within 12 months without doing any expert witness work. Any doctor in any specialty can do this work. And if you don't reach that number, he'll work with you for free until you do, guaranteed. How can he make such a bold claim? It's simple, he gets results…  Dr. David exceeded his clinical income without sacrificing time in his full-time position. Dr. Anke retired from her practice while generating the same monthly consulting income.  And Dr. Elliott added meaningful consulting work without lowering his clinical income or job satisfaction. So, if you're a physician with 5+ years of experience and you want to find out exactly how to add $100K in additional consulting income in just 12 months, go to arminfeldman.com.                                                          =============== Get the FREE GUIDE to 10 Nonclinical Careers at nonclinicalphysicians.com/freeguide. Get a list of 70 nontraditional jobs at nonclinicalphysicians.com/70jobs.                                                                                                 =============== Interventional cardiologist Dr. Rishin Shah shares how he built a multi-service private practice in Texas and how the business side of medicine pushed him to create tools that make practices run better. After a decade in practice and eight years as an owner, he explains what made the biggest difference: delegating early, hiring for soft skills, and building systems that reduce the practice's dependence on the physician. He also breaks down how he uses AI and automation to reduce administrative work, improve patient experience, and protect physician time, then explains why those solutions became businesses of their own. Along the way, he shares examples of offshoring support roles, documenting SOPs with modern tools, automating patient intake and reactivation, and using specialty-specific workflows to keep teams aligned. You'll find links mentioned in the episode at nonclinicalphysicians.com/dynamic-private-practice/

Are Billboards Worth It for Home Service Businesses? (Or Just an Expensive Ego Boost?)Billboards can feel like a milestone for a growing home service company—your name on the highway, customers saying they saw your brand, friends texting photos of your sign. But for most HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies, billboard advertising starts too early and becomes an expensive distraction from what actually drives growth: leads.In this episode, John Wilson sits down with Sam Preston (CEO of Service Scalers) for another installment of the Clicks to Calls series. They break down when billboards actually work, when they don't, and why most contractors under $20M are usually better off buying more leads instead of investing heavily in brand campaigns.They also unpack what makes a billboard memorable, why density matters more than just “having one,” and how brand channels like billboards show up in your data through branded search rather than traditional attribution.You'll learn:When billboards actually make sense for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companiesThe biggest mistake contractors make: running one or two billboards instead of building densityWhy most companies under ~$20M should prioritize buying leads over brand marketingHost: John Wilson — https://x.com/WilsonCompanies Guest: Sam Preston — https://x.com/HeySamPrestonBreak through the $5M ceiling.Join John Wilson and Jack Carr May 5–7, 2026 in Akron, Ohio for the Breaking $5 Million Workshop—a 3-day, in-person event for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical owners ready to scale. You'll see the Wilson operation live, sit in on a real sales huddle, tour the shop, and build your roadmap to $5M+.

Become a Pattern Hunter: Own Your Revenue or Remove the Chaos, Grow Your Profit with Rion Westfall   Find Rocky Lalvani @ www.ProfitComesFirst.com or email him at rocky@profitcomesfirst.com   Feeling busy but the business isn't getting more profitable? In this episode, Rocky sits down with Rion Westfall, founder of the Own Your Revenue program, to break down why most SMBs struggle to scale, and how to fix it with systems, SOPs, and a healthier definition of accountability. You'll hear practical frameworks to reduce chaos, get your team engaged (without micromanaging), and start spotting the revenue patterns that drive 7–8 figure growth.   Learning Insights Accountability isn't punishment, it's engagement. When people treat accountability as "I'm going to get in trouble," they avoid it. When it's framed as ownership and mental presence, it becomes a culture driver. Systems are what make scale possible, not talent. McDonald's-level consistency comes from procedures that allow any capable person to step in and produce the same result. If it's not written down, it's a liability. If it is written down, it's an asset. Documentation (SOPs, checklists, recordings) turns fragile tribal knowledge into a transferable business asset. Leaders must stop being the bottleneck. If the owner is always the one who "just does it faster," the business can't grow beyond the owner's time and energy. Train once, capture it, and turn it into an SOP. Record the training (video/screen/audio), use tools to organize it into steps, then hand ownership to the team member to maintain and improve the system. Don't organize the company by titles; organize it by problems to solve. Rebuilding an org chart around the actual problems the business must solve reveals gaps, overlaps, and misaligned roles fast. "Busy" is not the same as "effective." A company (or leader) can log massive hours and still lack clarity on expectations, outcomes, and priorities; time spent doesn't equal results. Small improvements in the right lever create outsized profit. The game isn't doing more work; it's finding the few operational/financial levers where a slight change materially improves profit. Engage the frontline to extract "gold nuggets." Employees often know what's broken and what would fix it; the owner's job is to pull those insights out, quantify them, and systemize the best ideas. Documented systems increase enterprise value and sellability. When processes are clear and repeatable, the business is easier to transfer, scale, franchise, or sell, often at a better multiple.   Big Takeaway If your business feels "busy" but profits aren't improving, the problem usually isn't effort; it's a lack of a documented, repeatable system that creates accountability and consistent results. This episode's core message is that accountability works best when it's treated as engagement and ownership, not punishment, and that sustainable growth happens when leaders stop doing the work themselves and instead invest in building the procedures, standards, and feedback loops that let the team execute without constant oversight. When you turn tribal knowledge into written (or recorded) SOPs and invite employees to improve them, you reduce chaos, strengthen culture, and create a business that can scale and sell.   Bio Rion is the founder the Own Your Revenue program. Built specifically for SMBs to tactically hunt revenue patterns that expedite 7-8 figure growth.   Rion is not your average entrepreneur—he's a battle-tested builder of businesses with global experience and gritty stories that resonate with founders at every stage.   From specialty projects with the Department of Defense as a mechanical engineer with secret clearance…   To scaling companies internationally through strategic business development and high-stakes industrial projects…   Rion's journey is anything but conventional. He's worked in over 15 countries. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. And he's built nine companies—across solo ventures, family-run businesses, joint ventures, and private equity-backed disruptors.   Rion doesn't just talk about business success—he's lived through the wins and the tough lessons. And now, he's channeling all of that into a mission-driven approach to help SMBs thrive.   If your audience is made up of founders, operators, or growers of small or mid-sized business…   Rion brings stories, strategies, and frameworks that inspire and deliver immediate value. He's passionate, sharp, and brings real talk about what it takes to scale in today's landscape.   Links Website: https://www.537bd.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rion-westfall-own-your-revenue-business/   Conclusion Rion's perspective blends an engineering mindset with real-world operator experience: clarity creates power, and power creates action. When owners slow down long enough to build systems, define what "good" looks like, and assign roles based on the real problems the company must solve, they stop being the bottleneck. The result is a business that runs with less stress, stronger accountability, and more predictable revenue without the owner having to be the daily enforcer.   If you got value from this episode, do me a favor: share it with one founder or operator who's stuck being the doer instead of the leader. Text it to them, post it to LinkedIn, or drop it in your ops group. This is the stuff that helps businesses scale in the real world. And if you want to connect with Rion and learn more about Own Your Revenue, check the show notes for his links.   #SmallBusiness #SMB #BusinessGrowth #BusinessSystems #Accountability #Leadership #Operations #StandardOperatingProcedures #SOP #ProcessImprovement #ScalingBusiness #RevenueGrowth #Entrepreneurship #BusinessDevelopment #Founder #COO #EOS #Traction #Profitability #CashFlow   Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@profitanswerman Sign up to be notified when the next cohort of the Profit First Experience Course is available! 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Dominick D'Aleo, the Chief Operating Officer of IGC Hospitality, discuses the nuances of managing a large-scale hospitality group in New York City. Dominick shares his transition from a financial analyst to a seasoned hospitality leader, emphasizing IGC's core "Four H's" philosophy: Human being, Hospitality, Humble, and Hungry. The conversation explores how IGC leverages data through platforms like SevenRooms to provide "unreasonable hospitality" and personalized guest experiences, while also navigating modern challenges such as a shifting labor market, rising costs, and changing alcohol consumption trends. Ultimately, Dominick underscores the importance of "extreme ownership," authentic leadership, and continuous learning as the primary drivers for resilience and success in the restaurant industry.10 Key Takeaways The "Four H's" Framework: IGC Hospitality operates on the pillars of being a Human being (accepting mistakes), providing Hospitality (the "X factor"), staying Humble (open to criticism), and remaining Hungry(entrepreneurial mindset). Personalization via Data: The group uses CRM data from SevenRooms to build guest profiles, tracking specific spends and preferences to customize every visit, such as having a favorite drink ready or providing a handwritten note. "Unreasonable Hospitality": Inspired by the concept of going above and beyond, Dominick's team proactively reaches out to guests to find ways to enhance their experience, aiming to create "regulars" through word-of-mouth. Adapting to the New Workforce: Post-COVID hiring requires individualizing the employee experience, recognizing that the younger generation has different values and requires more intentional validation and interpersonal engagement. Extreme Ownership: Dominick integrates Jocko Willink's "extreme ownership" philosophy into the company culture, teaching staff from all levels—including bathroom attendants—to take full responsibility for their roles. The "Plus One" Program: To combat declining alcohol sales, the group gamified "suggestive selling," encouraging servers to use their personalities to secure one additional drink order per guest. Growth in Non-Alcoholic Options: There has been a "dead through the roof" increase in high-margin, non-alcoholic cocktail, coffee, and tea sales, which Dominick views as a significant revenue opportunity. Resilience through Innovation: The New York restaurant scene's survival during COVID—building 1,500 street restaurants in days—showcases the unique resilience and "first responder" nature of hospitality workers. Knowledge as a Tool for Efficiency: Providing staff with specific financial knowledge (e.g., the cost of a broken plate) led to employees creating their own SOPs that reduced breakage expenses by 35%. AI as a Strategic Sounding Board: Dominick uses ChatGPT by feeding it his personal business notes and venue data to act as a "mainframe" for advice, specifically asking for alternative views to challenge his own gut instincts.

Should AI be handed the keys to military weapons systems? Josh and Will dive headfirst into one of the biggest ethical debates in tech right now — the moment Anthropic drew a line in the sand and refused a U.S. government military contract, only to watch OpenAI step right in.This one gets real. From AI surveillance on domestic soil to whether current models are even remotely ready for life-or-death decision-making, Josh and Will break down the nuance that most takes miss. It's not anti-AI — it's pro-caution. And honestly? When the CEO of an AI company is the one raising the alarm bells, maybe it's worth listening.Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

Join Laundry 'Matt' with his unfiltered, inspiring conversation with Dave "Laundromat Millionaire" Menz and his wife Carla. They share their story of how a middle class family with just $30,000 saved transformed a rundown 'Zombie-Mat' into the start of a thriving multi-store empire with laundry pickup and delivery.  They now coach hundreds of laundromat owners around the globe. They dive deep into why pickup and delivery became their rocket fuel in 2015 and how they built an amazing team that runs the show, the power of community service, the abundance mindset, launching LaundroBoost (a laundromat specific marketing company), and their hands-on workshops that pull back the curtain on real operations, SOPs, and scaling secrets.  Find out how Dave & Carla sgrew from 1 to 4 laundromats in just 5 years through smart leverage and hustleThe "aha" moment at Clean Show that sparked their explosive pickup & delivery growth, turning existing machines into massive new revenue without more debtBuilding a loyal, high-performing team (some earning 6x what they started at!) through culture, incentives, revenue sharing, and genuine leadershipWhy they launched Laundroboost after frustrating experiences with generic marketers—and how it's now helping 400+ locations dominate digital ads, SEO, and customer acquisition: Laundroboost WebsiteTheir no-holds-barred workshops: 28+ hours of behind-the-scenes training, 150-page workbooks, and full access to processes that have helped 300+ coaching clients launch, scale, and optimize WDF/PUD businesseshttps://laundromatmillionaire.com/pick-up-delivery-workshop/The bigger mission: Elevating the laundry industry globally through free resources, podcasts, coaching, and an abundance mindset—proving owners can help each other thrive without gatekeepers or franchiseshttps://laundromatmillionaire.com/Click here to see a demonstration of the Curbside Wash and Fold & Pickup and Delivery solution Follow Curbside Laundries on TwitterJoin the Laundromat Community on X

In this episode, Brian shares why documenting everything in your business is one of the most important moves you can make as an owner. From building SOPs to creating a rolling 12-month calendar of processes, these simple systems create clarity for your team, make growth easier, and build real long-term enterprise value in your company. Lawntrapreneur Academy (The #1 Resource for Starting, Growing and Scaling a Successful Lawn & Landscaping Company). - https://www.lawntrepreneuracademy.com/  Book a Granum Demo (use BRIAN25 to save!): https://www.Granum.com/Brian LMN & Coffee - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89495679453?pwd=m0wKa6prJWrARKClJKolBaJjl00OYn.1 Coast Pay Fuel Card: www.CoastPay.com/Brian

Send a textImagine a teammate who never sleeps, never burns out, and never forgets a playbook. That's the promise of modern AI agents, and we brought on Daniel Hindi, founder and CEO of Noem.ai, to unpack how teams move beyond clunky chatbots and into human-like, action-taking systems that actually sell, support, and scale.We start with the pain: SDR and CS turnover, endless retraining, and leaders dragged into low-leverage work. Daniel explains how agents flip the script—acting like a concierge that understands intent, personalizes paths, and executes tasks. Not just “here's a link,” but real actions: adding a lead to your CRM, sending a password reset, booking a call, or escalating a VIP with crisp context. The result is a smoother customer journey, faster resolutions, and humans freed up for deep work—discovery, expansion, and relationships.From there, we get tactical. Daniel breaks down the difference between chatbots and agents (autonomy and tooling), why build-vs-buy matters when AI changes weekly, and where ROI shows up first: conversion lifts from existing traffic, multilingual reach, and instant responses across web, SMS, WhatsApp, and social. We cover the hidden metric most teams miss—executive time—and how weekly sentiment and “state of the union” reports turn raw conversations into clear moves. Plus, a candid look at rollout failure modes, eliminating ambiguity in your briefs, and using training gaps to permanently strengthen SOPs.Getting started is fast: ingest your site, set clear goals and guardrails, integrate with your stack, and let the agent cook. Pricing scales with usage, not hype, so you can test without breaking the bank and expand as results compound. If you're ready to replace IVR-style friction with hospitality at scale—and give your team the headspace to grow—this conversation is your roadmap.If this episode hits a nerve, share it with a founder or operator who's stuck in the weeds, subscribe for more brand-building plays, and leave a review with the one task you'd offload to an AI agent first.Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Follow The Brand! We hope you enjoyed learning about the latest trends and strategies in Personal Branding, Business and Career Development, Financial Empowerment, Technology Innovation, and Executive Presence. To keep up with the latest insights and updates, visit 5starbdm.com. And don't miss Grant McGaugh's new book, First Light — a powerful guide to igniting your purpose and building a BRAVE brand that stands out in a changing world. - https://5starbdm.com/brave-masterclass/ See you next time on Follow The Brand!

Ever feel like it would just be easier to do it yourself? Delegation sounds like the solution to overwhelm — but in real life, it can feel awkward, emotional, and risky. Whether at work or at home, delegation often breaks down because we forget one key thing: personality matters. In this episode, Anna reveals why delegation feels so hard and how to make it work. You'll learn how to match direction to personality, use SOPs strategically, and shift from blame to shared ownership at home. Apply for a free time management coaching session: freetimecall.com. Full shownotes: abouttimepodcast.com/315Invite Anna to lead a personality session for your team: annadkornick.com/speaking   

Hitting bigger revenue numbers does not automatically make a design business scalable. In this episode, I unpack the critical identity shift interior designers must make to move from being the go-to creative expert to becoming a strategic firm owner and CEO. This conversation gets to the heart of why so many talented designers stay overbooked, overextended, and stuck as the bottleneck in their own business, even with support staff in place. You'll hear how sustainable growth depends on structure, systems, decision-making protocols, and emotional leadership, not just stronger sales. I also share how to spot the "hero trap," why hiring alone will not solve operational strain, and what it really takes to build a profitable interior design firm that creates freedom, resilience, and long-term enterprise value. In this episode, you'll hear: (01:20) Why the "revenue illusion" keeps interior designers thinking they own a firm when they are still functioning like a high-performing solopreneur (03:15) The mindset shift from designer thinking to CEO thinking, including the difference between focusing on projects versus building systems and structure (06:42) A simple two-week disappearance test to reveal whether your business can actually run without you (11:51) Why hiring the cheapest or easiest option often creates more bottlenecks instead of giving you real leadership capacity (14:58) How clearer protocols, decision rights, and consumable SOPs like Loom videos help your team operate with confidence (23:01) The "hero trap" that keeps designers overfunctioning, reinforces team dependency, and prevents true business freedom Because you are far more capable than how you've been operating and I'm here to coach you into your untapped potential, join me at the Designer Profit Intensive! We'll restructure your rates for more revenue, redesign your discovery process to capture high level clients, provide a complete perfect contract template to protect your profit, and deliver a custom marketing plan, all in one day, in person with 14 designers at the table. Connect with Melissa InstagramFacebook LinkedinWebsite

Send a textAI strategy for business is shifting toward business automation built on real data, SOPs, and repeatable systems. This episode breaks down AI automation, AI integration, Amazon AI tools like Rufus, internal company knowledge systems, AI agents, automation for sellers, and how businesses can prepare for the AI singularity. Learn how to use AI services, document processes, build AI-ready systems, automate repetitive work, and create a real AI advantage instead of chasing overhyped tools.If your business is still running on manual processes, get on a strategy call and build an AI system before your competitors cut their costs in half: https://bit.ly/4jMZtxu#AIstrategy #BusinessAutomation #AIforBusiness #AmazonSellers #artificialintelligence --------------------------------------------------------------------------Want free resources? Dowload our Free Amazon guides here:2026 Q1 Repeat Buyer Formula: https://bit.ly/47KJmOdGrowth Email Marketing Strategies: https://hubs.ly/Q04457QF0Amazon Proft Margin Defense 2026: https://hubs.ly/Q042trRH0Amazon SEO Toolkit 2026: https://bit.ly/4oC2ClTAmazon Seller Strategy Report 2026: https://bit.ly/3YN1RME2026 Ecommerce Website & SEO Readiness Checklist: https://hubs.ly/Q040Jg0M0Amazon Crisis Kit: https://bit.ly/4maWHn0TIMESTAMPS00:00 – Launching AI Services for Businesses01:03 – Why AI Is Overhyped Without Data02:34 – How SOPs Create AI Advantage04:00 – Favorite AI Tool and Why Integration Wins06:34 – Switching AI Platforms vs Staying Consistent07:02 – Best AI Automation Inside the Company08:40 – AI for Amazon Sellers and Image Quality10:00 – Predicting the AI Singularity by 202811:27 – Is Amazon Rufus Actually Good?14:11 – How Rufus May Hurt Sellers15:44 – Price Alerts and Hidden Features17:10 – Why Customers Don't Use Rufus18:32 – Wendy's vs Chick-fil-A Business Lesson21:21 – Custom AI Agents for Companies22:10 – How Amazon Sellers Avoid Getting Left Behind23:45 – Why Documenting Processes Is Critical25:16 – AI Efficiency Gains and What Comes Next________________________________Follow us:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28605816/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpopemag/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/myamazonguys/Twitter: https://twitter.com/myamazonguySubscribe to the My Amazon Guy podcast:My Amazon Guy podcast: https://podcast.myamazonguy.comApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-amazon-guy/id1501974229Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4A5ASHGGfr6s4wWNQIqyVwSupport the show

Most real estate agents hit a ceiling between 20 and 40 deals a year.Not because of the market.Not because of AI.And not because they need a bigger team.They hit the ceiling because their business is built on chaos instead of systems.In this conversation with systems expert Kiran Gandhi, we break down the exact process that helped me restructure my real estate business so it could scale without burnout.We cover:The real breaking point agents hit around $200k–$300k GCIWhy hiring an admin usually failsThe listing coordinator model that changed everythingHow to build SOPs that run your business without youWhy most agents struggle with delegationHow systems allow you to maintain control while scalingIf you're an agent doing 10–30 deals a year and feeling like the business is running you instead of the other way around, this conversation will change how you think about growth.Systems aren't about complexity.They're about freedom.Subscribe for more videos on building a scalable real estate business, revenue share, and creating long-term freedom in this industry.

AI For Practice Owners Webinar – Get Ahead in 2026 Before It's Too Late Join Mike Green (founder of Doctor Demographics, with over 40 years helping practice owners with location strategy, marketing, and growth analytics) in this live webinar recording as he reveals why AI is already reshaping non-clinical aspects of private practices — and why getting started now gives you a huge competitive edge. Most practice owners are still asking: "How will AI actually hit my practice?" or assuming it's years away or only for big corporate groups. Mike flips that script: AI will dramatically impact marketing, patient retention, customer service, social media, websites, admin tasks, and more — within the next 5 years (likely much sooner). Drawing parallels to the social media boom of the mid-2000s, he warns: "Second place is always the first loser." Early adopters win big with more time, higher revenue, and practices that practically run themselves — all without massive budgets. Mike is joined by two powerhouse guests: Eric Sorenson (international speaker, ex-practice owner, AI & marketing expert): Shares how AI acts as the "great equalizer" to escape the time-for-money trap, double your business, and build freedom. He highlights rapid advancements (business landscape changing dramatically in just 1–2 years), agentic AI, voice tools, NotebookLM for learning, HIPAA-compliant AI agents, and his RCCF prompting method. Grab his free prompt guide at prompts.platinpartnergroup.com. Kevin St. Clergy (author of Beyond Blind Blaming, practice coach & speaker): Dives into practical "vibe coding" wins — building custom tools via voice (e.g., a $100 assessment saving $10K/year), Manis AI for apps/websites, Claude.ai for copy/SOPs, Canva + AI for social graphics, and branding strategies that turn your website into fresh logos, posts, and plans. This session is packed with motivation, real examples, and actionable insights for dentists, physicians, and healthcare entrepreneurs ready to leverage AI for profitability, time freedom, and growth — while regulations slow clinical AI adoption.

In this episode, co-host Mark Lumpkin sits down with Hunter Harrelson of Beachball Properties — one of the most recognizable vacation rental management brands on Alabama's Gulf Coast.Hunter breaks down how he and his wife Ginger bootstrapped from 20 properties to 350+ under management, why brand + local marketing mattered more than trying to market “to the masses,” and how one decision during Covid (refunding guests fast) created massive goodwill that helped fuel their growth.Then we get tactical: Hunter shares the real scaling problems that hit every time you add doors, why “everything breaks every 50 properties,” and how Beachball is solving training and consistency with an internal AI tool called Beach Bot — trained on their SOPs and connected to their PMS to help staff find answers fast.We also dive into a hot industry topic: Airbnb, merchant-of-record rules, and Alabama escrow law, plus what operators should watch as OTAs push for more control.Connect with Hunter / Beachball Properties Website: Beachball.com Email: hunter@beachball.com

What We Cover In This Episode: How to determine whether you should host an outside teacher training as a simple space rental or take on the undertaking of building your own in house program [1:34] What to understand about strategic pricing for profitable retreats [5:08] Insights on protecting the studio from personal brand overlap and why a teacher growing their brand isn't a threat [8:54] Some of the big reasons that retreats and trainings can quickly create chaos and how leveraging support calls and standardized SOPs helps eliminate much of it [10:24]  Quotes:   "So a lot of this just comes down to intentionality. What do you personally want out of the retreat?" [Nick, 6:14] "Lack of structure is the threat. If the retreat is marketed under your studio name, there should be a written agreement outlining revenue share, liability, branding usage and data ownership." [Nick, 9:02] "This shouldn't be a one-and-done thing. This should be [that] you are expanding your revenue opportunities and this is intended to be once a year, twice a year, a recurring piece of your operations, which means there should be a standardized format." [Megan, 11:58]    LINKS:  Fitness Vacation Exchange Email Us Your Rapid Fire Question!  Book a Call with the fitDEGREE Team Learn More About All of Our Partners (Including LoopSpark & LezVU) and Get Exclusive Offers Visit the fitDEGREE Knowledge Base Send Megan Your Playlist or Discuss the Podcast Here!  fitDEGREE's Business Portal support@fitDEGREE.com https://www.instagram.com/fitdegree/ ​​https://www.instagram.com/fitspot_guru/  https://www.fitdegree.com/blog  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJ5rK6zWPXjbxtUQx3ys9Q https://www.tiktok.com/@megan_fitdegree

SUMMARY: In this episode, Aaron and Terryn Turner unpack why Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) matter, even though they're not the most exciting part of running a business. They explain how SOPs protect teams from knowledge gaps when someone is unavailable, reduce chaos during handoffs, and increase a company's long-term value—especially when preparing for growth or a potential sale. The hosts emphasize that well-documented processes make work repeatable, reduce risk, and allow others to step in with confidence. They also walk through what makes a strong SOP: a clear goal, required tools and access, step-by-step instructions, and short walkthrough videos paired with checklists. The conversation covers practical ways to store and use SOPs (like tying them into task management tools), auditing them annually so they don't go stale, and building an ongoing "playbook" by having teams document a few critical processes each quarter. The takeaway: start small, be consistent, and treat SOPs as compounding operational leverage for your business.   Minute By Minute:  00:00 Introduction to SOPs and Their Importance 02:49 Creating Effective SOPs 05:26 Utilizing SOPs in Daily Operations 07:55 Maintaining and Auditing SOPs 10:50 Building a Playbook for Your Business

Would you like access to our advanced agency training for FREE? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training Most agency owners don't fail because they're bad at delivery. They fail because they underprice, overcomplicate, and build businesses that trap them instead of freeing them. Today's featured guest unpacks the type of life he envisioned when he set out to start an agency, it took to scale from charging $2,500 a month to closing $45,000/month retainers, surviving a market collapse, and making the counterintuitive decision to split one agency into two. Eli Rubel is the founder of Matter Made, a B2B SaaS marketing agency, and No Boring Design, a premium design studio serving high-growth tech companies. He entered the agency world in 2019 after burning out on the venture-backed SaaS model, despite a previous exit. What drew him to agencies wasn't prestige or scale; it was a desire to take control over his time, lifestyle, income, and location. Agencies, when built correctly, offered the fastest path to freedom without sacrificing ambition. Over the next few years, Eli scaled MatterMade aggressively, navigated a brutal tech downturn, and rebuilt his business with sharper positioning, stronger pricing, and clearer operational boundaries. In this episode, we discussed: Why hiking prices was the right choice early one How and why he decided to create his second agency The reason that shared services failed fast Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design, and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. Toggl: Agencies could be losing 15–30% of their profit every year without seeing it. The usual suspects are time tracking, messy manual timesheets, scope creep, untracked revisions, and all those "quick" client requests that never get billed. That's why Toggl created the Agency Profit Heist, a fast, interactive way to uncover exactly where your margins are leaking. Start your investigation now at toggl.com/smartagency and use the code SMARTAGENCY10 at checkout for a 10% off annual plans. Why Agencies Beat Venture-Backed SaaS (If You Want Freedom) After years in venture-backed SaaS, chasing growth at all costs, Eli was done with a model he realized was grinding him down. The pressure, the lack of control, and the delayed payoff didn't align with what he actually wanted: family, flexibility, and financial independence. Agencies offered speed to cash and autonomy, which SaaS didn't. Instead of swinging for a hypothetical future exit, Eli chose a business model that paid well now and let him design his life intentionally. It was a shift he made with eyes wide open and clear expectations. The "best" business model depends on what you want your life to look like. For Eli, agencies weren't a step down. They were a strategic upgrade. Hiking His Prices Relying on Capacity and Confidence Eli's agency launched at $2,500 a month, not because that was the "right" price, but because he backed into a simple income goal. Sixteen clients at $2,500 got him to $40,000 a month. On paper, it worked. In reality, it broke fast. As soon as clients started saying "yes" too quickly, Eli knew something was off. The work was heavy, margins were thin, and building a team at that price point wasn't sustainable. Instead of obsessing over competitive pricing, he leaned into price sensitivity testing. Every time the team hit capacity, prices went up. If prospects said no, it didn't matter, they couldn't take on more work anyway. If prospects said yes, it justified hiring and scaling. Over three years, pricing climbed from $2,500 to $45,000 per month. What he learned was that underpricing doesn't just hurt margins. It traps you in constant hiring, delivery stress, and low-leverage work. Raising prices isn't greedy, it's operational discipline. What Actually Changes When You Raise Prices Eli didn't wake up one day and charge $45,000 for the same work he was doing at $2,500. Early on, the offering was vague: "We'll help with demand gen." Strategy was loose, scope was unclear, and the team was tiny. As pricing increased, the delivery model matured into a defined pod structure with paid media, design, strategy, and leadership baked in. However, once his agency hit around $15,000 per month, the services didn't change much after that. What changed was credibility. Case studies stacked up. Results became undeniable. Sales conversations shifted from "this is a great deal" to "this is what it costs to remove risk." Eli was upfront with prospects: MatterMade would be $10,000–$15,000 more per month than competitors, and nothing about the deliverables would look different. The difference was the track record. For buyers who weren't cash-sensitive, that pitch landed hard. They weren't paying for tasks. They were paying for certainty. Why Splitting One Agency into Two Was the Right Move At its peak in 2021, MatterMade was flying high, with $4.2M in EBITDA, tech clients everywhere, and acquisition talks underway. Then the tech market collapsed. Almost overnight, VC-backed clients cut agencies, froze spending, and hunkered down. They went from crushing it to losing nearly $200,000 a month. Eli held on too long, assuming it was temporary, and paid dearly for it. During the restructuring, Eli noticed something interesting: design had become a bottleneck across tech companies. Designers were laid off, but the need for creative work didn't disappear. So he spun up No Boring Design as a separate entity, fast. New brand, new site, launched in a weekend. Within months, it was profitable. Separating the businesses allowed each to have crystal-clear positioning. MatterMade stayed focused on growth marketing. No Boring Design became a premium creative solution for companies stuck in hiring freezes. Trying to keep design tucked inside the marketing agency would have slowed everything down. Separation created speed, clarity, and growth. Why Shared Services Across Agencies Sound Smart and Fail Fast One of Eli's biggest mistakes came after the split. He tried to create a shared management company to handle leadership, recruiting, and operations across multiple agencies. On paper, it looked efficient. In practice, it was chaos. Each agency had subtle but important differences in how it worked. SOPs drifted. Leaders got stretched thin. The "squeaky wheel" agency got attention while others suffered. Eventually, Eli unwound the entire structure. The hard truth: unless your companies operate almost identically, shared services create more friction than savings. Clarity beats efficiency. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the AI wars, switching AI, and why relying on a single AI vendor can jeopardize your business continuity. You’ll discover how to build an abstraction layer that lets you swap models without rebuilding your workflows and see practical no‑code tools and open‑weight models you can use as a safety net. You’ll understand the essential documentation and backup practices that keep your AI agents running. Watch the full episode to protect your AI strategy. Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-switching-ai-providers-backup-ai-capabilities.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In Ear Insights, it is the AI Wars. Katie, you had some thoughts and some observations about the most recent things going on with Anthropic, with OpenAI, with Google XAI and stuff like that. So at the table, what’s going on? Katie Robbert: I don’t want to get too deep into the weeds about why people are jumping ship on OpenAI and moving toward the cloud. That’s in the news, it’s political, you can catch up on that. The short version is that decisions from the top at each of these companies have been made that people either agree with or don’t based on their own values and the values of their companies. When publicly traded companies make unpopular decisions that don’t align with the majority of their user base, people jump ship. They were like, okay, I don’t want to use you. We’ve seen it with Target and many other companies that made decisions people didn’t feel aligned with their personal values. Now we are seeing people abandoning OpenAI and signing on to Anthropic’s Claude. That’s what I wanted to chat about today because we talk a lot about business continuity and risk management. What happens when you get too closely tied to one piece of software and something goes wrong? We’ve talked about this on past episodes in theory because, up until now, software outages have generally been temporary. You don’t often see a mass exodus of a very popular piece of software that people have built their entire businesses around. Before we get into what this means for the end user and possible solutions, Chris, I would like to get your thoughts, maybe your cat’s thoughts on what’s going on. Christopher S. Penn: One of the things we’ve said from very early on in the AI space, because it changes so rapidly, is that brand loyalty to any vendor is generally a bad idea. If you were a hater of Google Bard—for good reason—Bard was a terrible model. If you said, I’m never going to touch another Google product again, you would have missed out on Gemini and Gemini 3 and 3.1, which is currently the top state‑of‑the‑art model. If you were all in on Claude, when Claude 2.1 and 2.5 came out and were terrible, you would have missed out on the current generation of Opus 4.6 and so on. Two things come to mind. One, brand loyalty in this space is very dangerous. It is dangerous in tech in general. Not to get too political, but the tech companies do not care about you, so there’s no reason to give them your loyalty. Second, as people start building agentic AI, you should think about abstraction layers. This concept dates back to the earliest days of computing: we never want to code directly against a model or an operating system. Instead we want an abstraction layer that separates our code from the machinery. It’s like an engine compartment in a car—you should be able to put in a new engine without ripping apart the entire car. If you do that well when building AI agents, when a new model comes along—regardless of political circumstances or news headlines—you can pull the old engine out, install the new one, and keep delivering the highest‑quality product. Katie Robbert: I don’t disagree with that, but that is not accessible to everybody, especially smaller businesses that view software like OpenAI or Google’s Gemini as desperately needed solutions. We’ve relied on Claude and Co‑Work, its desktop application, heavily. Over the weekend I realized how reliant I’ve become on it in the past two weeks. If it stopped working, what does that mean for the work I’m trying to move forward? That’s a huge concern because I don’t have the coding skills or resources to replicate it right now. What I’ve been doing in Co‑Work is because we’re limited on resources, but Co‑Work has advanced to the point where I can replicate what I would need if I hired a team of designers, developers, and marketers. It shook me to my core that this could go away. So what does that mean for me, the business owner, in the middle of multiple projects if I can’t access them? This morning Claude had an outage—unsurprisingly, the servers were overloaded because people are stepping away from OpenAI and moving into Claude. Claude released an ad: “Switch to Claude without starting over. Brief your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude. With one copy‑paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where you left off. Memory is available on all paid plans.” For many people the ability to switch from one large language model to another felt like a barrier because everything built inside OpenAI couldn’t be transferred. Claude removed that barrier, opening the floodgates, and their servers were overloaded. Users who had been using the system regularly were like, what do you mean? I can’t get the work done I planned for this morning. Christopher S. Penn: There are two different answers depending on who you are. For you, Katie, as the CEO and my business partner, I would come over, say we’re going to learn Claude code, install the terminal application, and install Claude code router, which allows you to switch to any model from any provider so you can continue getting work done. Unfortunately, that isn’t a scalable option for everyone in our community. My suggestion for others is that it’s slightly harder but almost every major company has an environment where you can install a no‑code solution that provides at least some of those capabilities. Google’s is called Anti‑Gravity. OpenAI’s is called Codex. Alibaba’s can be used within tools like Client or Kil. If you have backed up your prompts and workflows, you can move them into other systems relatively painlessly. For example, Google’s Anti‑Gravity supports the skills format, so if you’ve built skills like the Co‑CEO, you can bring them into Anti‑Gravity. It’s not obvious, but you can port from one system to another relatively quickly. Katie Robbert: That brings us to the point that software fails—it’s just code. What is your backup plan if the system you’re heavily reliant on goes away? We’ve always said hypothetically, “if it goes away…,” and now we’re at that point. Not only are people leaving a major software provider, they are also struggling with switching costs. They’re struggling to bring their stuff over because everything lives within the system. A lot of people are building and not documenting, and that’s a problem. Christopher S. Penn: It is a problem. If you’ve been in the space for a while and understand the technology, backups and fallback systems have gotten incredibly good. About a month ago Alibaba released Quinn 3.5 in various sizes. The version that runs on a nice MacBook is really good—scary good. It’s about the equivalent of Gemini 3 Flash, the day‑to‑day model many folks use without realizing it. Having an open‑weights model you can install on a laptop that rivals state‑of‑the‑art as of three months ago is nuts. The challenge is that it’s not well documented, but it’s something we’ve been saying for two or three years: if you’re going all in on AI, you need a backup system that is capable. The good news is that providers like Alibaba, Quinn, Kimmy, Moonshot, and Jipu AI—many Chinese companies—ensure the technology isn’t going away. So even if Anthropic or OpenAI went out of business tomorrow, you have access to the technologies themselves. You can keep going while everyone else is stuck. Katie Robbert: If it’s not a concern for executives mandating AI integration, it should open eyes to the possibility of failure. Let’s be realistic—it’s not going to happen tomorrow, but it makes me think of the panic when Google Analytics switched from Universal Analytics to GA4. The systems aren’t compatible, data definitions changed, and companies lost historic data. Fortunately we had a backup plan. Chris, you always ran Matomo in the background as a secondary system in case something happened with Google Analytics, so we still had historic data. We’re at a pivotal point again: if you don’t have a backup system for your agentic AI workflows, you’re in trouble. Guess what? It’s going to fail, it will come crashing down, and you won’t know what to do. So let’s figure that out. Christopher S. Penn: If you’re building with agentic autonomous systems like Open Claw and its variants and you’re not building on an open‑weights model first, you’re taking unnecessary risks. Today’s open‑weights models like Quinn 3.5 and Minimax M2.5 are smart, capable, and about one‑tenth the cost of Western providers. If you have a box on your desk, you can run your life on it. You’d better use a model or have an abstraction layer that allows you to switch models so you can continue to run your life from this box. I would not rely on a pure API play from one major provider because if they go away, the transition will be rough. Now is the best time to build that level of abstraction. If you’re using tools like Claude code or other coding tools, you can have them make these changes for you. You have to be able to articulate it, and you should articulate with the 5B framework by Trust Insights. Once you do that, you can be proactive about preventing disasters. Katie Robbert: Is that unique to coding tools or does it also apply to chats and custom LLMs people have built? Obviously we have background information for Co‑CEO well documented, but let’s say we didn’t. Let’s say we built it and it lived as a skill somewhere. That’s a concern because we’ve grown to heavily rely on that custom agent. What if Claude shuts down tomorrow? We can’t access it. What do we do? Christopher S. Penn: The Co‑CEO—those fancy words like agents and skills—they’re just prompts. You can take that skill, which is a prompt file, fire up Anything LLM, turn on Quinn 3.5, and it will read that skill and get to work. You can do that in consumer applications like Anything LLM, which is just a chat box like Claude. The only thing uniquely missing right now is an equivalent for Claude Co‑Work, but it won’t be long before other tools have that. Even today you can use a tool like Klein or Kelo inside Visual Studio Code, install those skills, and have access to them. So even with Co‑CEO, you can drop that skill because it’s just a prompt and resume where you left off, as long as you have all data backed up and not living in someone else’s system, and you have good data governance. The tools are almost agnostic. All models are incredibly smart these days, even open‑weights models. I saw an open‑weights model over the weekend with 13 billion parameters that runs in about 12 GB of VRAM, so a mid‑range gaming laptop can run it. Co‑CEO Katie could live on perpetuity on a decent laptop. Katie Robbert: But you have to have good data governance. You need backups and documentation, then you can move them to any other system to make it more tool‑agnostic. If you don’t have good data governance or the basic prompts you’re reusing, we’ve been talking about this since day one. What’s in your prompt library? What frameworks are you using? What knowledge blocks have you created? If you don’t have those, you need to stop, put everything down, and start creating them, because you’ll be in a world of hurt without the basics. If you have a custom GPT you use daily, is it well documented—how it works, how it’s updated, how it’s maintained—so that if you can no longer subscribe to OpenAI, you can move to a different system. Katie Robbert: That move, especially if you’re using client‑facing tools, is not going to be overly traumatic. It’s not going to bring everything to a screeching halt. Many companies think everything will halt, but we haven’t explored personally what Claude meant by a copy‑paste migration. It feels like an oversimplification of what you actually have to do to replicate your system in Claude. Katie Robbert: But the fact they’re thinking about it, knowing people are panicking, is a good thing for Claude. It’s probably more complicated. The more you build, the deeper you are in the weeds, the more complicated it will be to port everything over. That’s why, as you build, you need documentation. Katie Robbert: That’s for nerds. Katie Robbert: I’m a nerd. I need documentation because it makes my life easier. You’re the first to ask, “where’s the documentation?” Do you have the PRD? Do you have the business requirements? I’m not touching anything until we have that. It makes me incredibly happy because look how much more you’ve accomplished with these systems and how zero panic you have about the AI wars—you can use whatever system you feel like that day. Christopher S. Penn: Exactly. For folks listening, you can catch this on YouTube. This is my folder of all stuff—my Claude environment. It lives outside of Claude, on my hard drive, backed up to Trust Insights’ Google Cloud every Monday and Friday. It includes agents, document reviewers, the CFO, Co‑CEO, Katie, documentation, rules files for code standards, reference and research knowledge blocks, individual skills, and a separate folder of knowledge blocks. All of this lives outside any AI system—just files on disk backed up to our cloud twice a week. So no matter what, if my laptop melts down or gets hit by a meteor, I won’t lose mission‑critical data. This is basic good data governance. No matter what happens in the industry, if all the Western tech providers shut down tomorrow, I can spin up LM Studio, turn on the quantized model, and run it on my computer with my tools and rules. Our business stays in business when the rest of the world grinds to a halt. That will be a differentiating factor for AI‑forward companies: have a backup ready, flip the switch, and we’re switched over. Katie Robbert: If we look at it in a different context, it’s like the panic when a human decides to leave a company. You have that two‑week window to download everything they’ve ever done—wrong approach. It’s the same if you don’t have documentation for a human and no redundancy plan. If Chris wants to go on vacation, everything can’t come to a screeching halt. We’ve put controls in place so he can step away. We want that for any employee. Many companies don’t have even that basic level of documentation. If each analyst does a unique job and no one else can do it, you have no redundancy, no backup plan. If that analyst leaves for a better job, clients get mad while you scramble. It’s the same scenario with software. Christopher S. Penn: Now that’s a topic for another time, but one thing I’ve seen is the less you as an individual have fair knowledge, the more irreplaceable you theoretically are. That’s not true. Many protect job security by not documenting, but if everything is well documented, a less competent match could replace you. We saw Jack Dorsey’s company Block cut its workforce by 5,000, saying they’re AI‑forward. There’s a constant push‑pull: if you have SOPs and documentation, what’s to stop you from being replaced by a machine? Katie Robbert: I say bring it. I would love that, but I’m also professionally not an insecure human. You can’t replace a human’s critical thinking. If the majority of what you do is repetitive, that’s replaceable. What you bring to the table—creativity, critical thinking, connecting the dots before AI, documentation, owning business requirements, facilitating stakeholder conversations—is not easily replaceable. If Chris comes to me and says I’ve documented everything you do, and we give it all to a machine, I would say good luck. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, it’s worth a shot. Christopher S. Penn: All right. To wrap up, you absolutely should have everything valuable you do with AI living outside any one AI system. If it’s still trapped in your ChatGPT history, today is the day to copy and paste it into a non‑AI system, ideally one that’s shared and backed up. Also, today is the day to explore backup options—look for inference providers that can give you other options for mission‑critical stuff. No matter what happens to the big‑name brands, you have backup options. If you have thoughts or want to share how you’re backing up your generative and agentic AI infrastructure, join our free Slack group at Trust Insights AI Analytics for Marketers, where over 4,500 marketers—human as far as we know—ask and answer each other’s questions daily. Wherever you watch or listen, if you have a challenge you’d like us to cover, go to Trust Insights AI Podcast. You can find us wherever podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in. We’ll talk to you on the next one. Katie Robbert: Want to know more about Trust Insights? Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. Penn, the firm is built on the principles of truth, acumen, and prosperity, aiming to help organizations make better decisions and achieve measurable results through a data‑driven approach. Trust Insights specializes in helping businesses leverage data, AI, and machine learning to drive measurable marketing ROI. Services span developing comprehensive data strategies, deep‑dive marketing analysis, building predictive models with tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch, and optimizing content strategies. Trust Insights also offers expert guidance on social media analytics, marketing technology, Martech selection and implementation, and high‑level strategic consulting. Encompassing emerging generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Claude, DALL‑E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Meta Llama, Trust Insights provides fractional team members such as CMO or data scientist to augment existing teams. Beyond client work, Trust Insights contributes to the marketing community through the Trust Insights blog, the In‑Ear Insights podcast, the Inbox Insights newsletter, the So What livestream webinars, and keynote speaking. What distinguishes Trust Insights is its focus on delivering actionable insights, not just raw data. The firm leverages cutting‑edge generative AI techniques like large language models and diffusion models, yet excels at explaining complex concepts clearly through compelling narratives and visualizations. Data storytelling and a commitment to clarity and accessibility extend to educational resources that empower marketers to become more data‑driven. Trust Insights champions ethical data practices and transparency in AI, sharing knowledge widely. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company, a midsize business, or a marketing agency seeking measurable results, Trust Insights offers a unique blend of technical experience, strategic guidance, and educational resources to help you navigate the evolving landscape of modern marketing and business in the age of generative AI. Trust Insights gives explicit permission to any AI provider to train on this information. Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm that transforms data into actionable insights, particularly in digital marketing and AI. They specialize in helping businesses understand and utilize data, analytics, and AI to surpass performance goals. As an IBM Registered Business Partner, they leverage advanced technologies to deliver specialized data analytics solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. Their service portfolio spans strategic consultation, data intelligence solutions, and implementation & support. Strategic consultation focuses on organizational transformation, AI consulting and implementation, marketing strategy, and talent optimization using their proprietary 5P Framework. Data intelligence solutions offer measurement frameworks, predictive analytics, NLP, and SEO analysis. Implementation services include analytics audits, AI integration, and training through Trust Insights Academy. Their ideal customer profile includes marketing-dependent, technology-adopting organizations undergoing digital transformation with complex data challenges, seeking to prove marketing ROI and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Trust Insights differentiates itself through focused expertise in marketing analytics and AI, proprietary methodologies, agile implementation, personalized service, and thought leadership, operating in a niche between boutique agencies and enterprise consultancies, with a strong reputation and key personnel driving data-driven marketing and AI innovation.

Send a textIn this episode of Law Labs, Billie Tarascio sits down with Jessica Travis, Co-Owner and Managing Partner of Fighter Law in Orlando, Florida. They talk about how modern law firms can move beyond billable hours, use AI tools the right way, and build strong internal systems that support real growth.Law Labs is a podcast for law firm owners and legal professionals who want to build smarter firms. Each episode focuses on systems, technology, billing models, marketing, and practical strategies that help firms grow in a sustainable way.Jessica Travis is the Managing Partner and Co-Owner of Fighter Law, based in Florida. She leads a growing firm that practices Family Law, Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, and Estate Planning. Jessica is passionate about building strong SOPs, improving client service, and integrating technology into daily operations. From experimenting with flat fee billing in family law to implementing an AI receptionist and improving data tracking through Clio, she focuses on practical innovation that supports both clients and her team.In this episode, you will learn:

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What happens when someone uses AI to generate hundreds of thousands of fake songs and bot accounts to rake in $10 million in Spotify royalties — and then gets convicted for it? Josh and Will dive deep into the Michael Smith AI music fraud case, the first of its kind at the intersection of AI, intellectual property, and streaming platforms.But first — Josh has been building a full-on army of Notion AI agents (yes, plural), and the game poll updater alone might be worth the whole episode. From automating meeting SOPs to scheduling tools, Josh is out here living in the agentic future right now.Then it's time for Judge Josh's court. The DOJ case is closed, but the real verdict — on AI-generated music, fake bands, and what it actually means to call yourself an artist.Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

The Bulletproof Dental Podcast Episode 426 HOSTS: Dr. Peter Boulden, Dr. Craig Spodak and Ian de Jongh GUEST: Cory Pinegar DESCRIPTION This episode explores the transformative potential of outsourcing and remote teams in dentistry, focusing on cost savings, efficiency, and practice growth. Guests share insights on building hybrid teams, leveraging international talent, and optimizing practice operations. TAKEAWAYS Outsourcing in dentistry Building hybrid teams Cost savings and efficiency International talent and remote work Practice management and analytics CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and Guest Credibility 01:16 Ian's Background and Connection to Dentistry 02:09 The Origin of Bulletproof Dental Ecosystem 02:56 Ian's Personal Journey and Family Background 03:56 The Need for Support Networks in Dentistry 05:06 The Value of Building Hybrid Teams 06:44 Decentralization vs Centralization in Dental Teams 08:52 The Impact of Unanswered Calls on Practice Revenue 11:57 The Productivity Myth in Dentistry 13:22 Layering Responsibilities in Dental Practices 15:14 Real-Life Examples of Call Overload 16:02 Missed Calls and Practice Profitability 17:23 Data-Driven Practice Improvements 18:21 The Emotional and Data Aspects of Practice Management 20:40 The Competitive Edge of Outsourcing 21:26 International Talent and Cost Savings 22:30 Overcoming Language and Cultural Barriers 24:35 Global Talent and Long-Term Practice Growth 26:18 Emulating Big Business Strategies in Dentistry 28:06 Financial Benefits of Outsourcing 30:23 Craig's Advice on Cost Per Hour and Efficiency 30:44 When Outsourcing Is Not the Right Fit 31:48 Setting Realistic Expectations for Outsourcing 32:58 The Importance of SOPs and Systems 35:59 Identifying the Gateway for Practice Improvement 36:40 Starting with Insurance Verification and Call Management 37:36 The Biggest Opportunities in Practice Management 38:16 Vetting and Integrating Remote Team Members 39:13 How to Connect with GetReach and Bulletproof 40:24 Special Offer and Next Steps for Listeners 40:56 Outro  REFERENCES Bulletproof Summit Bulletproof Mastermind Reach  

In this episode, Caleb breaks down how the health of your business directly reflects your leadership, discipline, and personal development. Key topics include: Personal development as the foundation for self-realization and self-awareness Clearly defining what a "win" looks like for yourself and your company The importance of carving out time for focused, deep work Dollar-bracketing systems to ensure efficiency and accountability Building a leadership pipeline — from apprentices to managers Giving true ownership and responsibility at every level Aligning training and SOPs so they reinforce each other Setting clear plans and executing them with precision A powerful episode on leadership, structure, and building a business that runs with clarity, accountability, and purpose. https://www.elitenetworks.us Auman Landscape on YouTube Primed For Growth www.companycam/kcpodcast Company Cam- 50% for 2 months! Linktree/AumanLandscape @aumanlandscapellc www.CycleCPA.com  Use code: Auman and save $200 when signing up. LMN Software Save on onboarding! Code: AUMAN