E124: What happens when you put Profit First with Mike Michalowicz

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Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur behind multi-million-dollar-a-year companies, author, and lecturer. He is the author of five business books including Clockwork, Profit First Revised & Expanded, Surge, Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. He’s also a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

Episode highlights:

• Learn how fear can be a major motivator.
• Learn how compressed time affects what we’re able to accomplish, and what that has to do with a business’ use of profit.
• Reinvesting profit? Here’s why Mike calls baloney on it.
• Learn how you can adapt Mike’s Profit First model for a healthier business.
• Learn why you would reinvest profit.
• Need something new? Want to hire a new employee? Here’s how to do it without digging into profit.
• Find out how Mike “hides” money from himself so he won’t be tempted to touch it.
• Run time: 41:52
• Best advice ever received: Don’t listen to my advice… the customer speaks the truth through their wallets. Customers trump experts.
• Habit that contributes to success: Exercise.
• Recommended book: Friction by Roger Dooley
• Recommended tools: BombBomb

Links:

• MikeMotorbike.com – go to Get the Tools – check out chapters
• MikeMichalowicz.com

Quotes:

• “Fear is probably one of the greatest underrated assets.”
• “My life’s purpose is to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.”
• “Sales translates to stress….sales is an obligation.”
• “I was probably one of the worst angel investors ever. I called myself the angel of death.”
• “If you spend money, it’s an expense!”
• “Profit’s not used to resolve ongoing problems.”
• “When money’s easily accessible, it dumbs us down.”

Takeaways:

• Reconsider your profit strategy. How accessible is your money? How well do you plan ahead for that-would-be-nice expenses?