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Prioritizing Profit

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Prioritizing Profit

How to build a business that does more than just stay afloat
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Entrepreneurship Management & Leadership

Being able make a profit in your business allows you to take more risks, reduce stress levels, and invest in key areas of growth. This collection of Blinks and Shortcast episodes offers options for adopting a "profit-first" model and how to make this model central to all your business efforts—from sales and management strategies, to salaries.

Prioritizing Profit

How to build a business that does more than just stay afloat
The 1% Windfall
The 1% Windfall
Rafi Mohammed
How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow
16 min
4.2
Profit First
Profit First
Mike Michalowicz
Transform Your Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
20 min
4.5
Pricing For Profit
Pricing For Profit
Peter Hill
How to Develop a Powerful Pricing Strategy for Your Business
8 min
3.5
Are you Optimizing for Profit?
Are you Optimizing for Profit?
Freelance to Founder
Scaling and growing your business as a freelancer can come with some really tough growing pains. What if some of the habits you've cultivated are precisely the things that are making it so hard for you to grow? In this episode, we'll show you the difference between owning your work and doing it, and how to check in and see if doing the work you love is actually a key roadblock for business growth.
12 min
Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
Greg Crabtree and Beverly Blair Harzog
Four Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential
18 min
4.2
The One Minute Manager
The One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Increase Productivity, Profits and your own Prosperity
10 min
4.1
Profit from the Positive
Profit from the Positive
Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin
Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business
16 min
4.4
Cut Costs Not Corners
Cut Costs Not Corners
Colin Barrow
A practical guide to staying competitive and improving profits
15 min
4.1
How Brands Grow
How Brands Grow
Byron Sharp
What Marketers Don’t Know
18 min
4.4
Avoiding Growth: Paul Jarvis
Avoiding Growth: Paul Jarvis
Beyond the To-Do List
Growth is seen as a business essential, but it could be more beneficial to stay small and act as a business of one. Entrepreneur Paul Jarvis presents a case for avoiding growth when overreach could harm your business. Instead, he’ll get you thinking about building a company that is sustainable and manageable, maximizing your happiness and profitability.
9 min
4.3
Double Double
Double Double
Cameron Herold
How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less
15 min
3.8
You Should Test That!
You Should Test That!
Chris Goward
Conversion Optimization for More Leads, Sales and Profit or The Art and Science of Optimized Marketing
20 min
4.5
Profit and Paying Yourself: Michael Michalowicz
Profit and Paying Yourself: Michael Michalowicz
Being Boss
How can you prioritize profit and pay yourself as a successful creative business? Many creatives find accounting to be a passion-killer, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this episode Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon talk to author author Mike Michalowicz about how to set up a simple system to get clarity on your books and make sure profit is at the heart of your business. He'll share his expertise on balancing purpose and profit, including tips on simplifying your accounting so you can be able to pay yourself what you deserve!
10 min
4.8
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