Run a Profitable Gym Episode 167: How You’re Sabotaging Your Business
Episode 167: How You’re Sabotaging Your Business
On this episode, Chris Cooper joins us to talk about all the ways that you are sabotaging your business. Everyone who has started a CrossFit Gym or is an entrepreneur has made a lot of mistakes. The key is to learn from these mistakes and make sure they don’t happen again! Today we discuss a list of the top mistakes made by CrossFit gym owners and first-time entrepreneurs.
The Top Entrepreneur Mistakes:
- Displaying Prices without Context
- Forecasting your budgets onto your Clients
- Attacking other businesses instead of building their own
- Attempting to do too many things at once
- Not focusing on communication enough
- Sending the wrong messages to your clients
Be on the lookout for my new book coming out in just a few weeks: Founder Farmer, Tinker Thief!
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Timeline:
2:18 – Introduction to Sabotaging Your Business
3:01 – Raising your leadership standards to the right level
5:02 – Why you shouldn’t display your prices
7:39 – Forecasting your budgets onto your clients
10:10 – Attacking other businesses instead of building your own
13:22 – Attempting to do too many things at once
16:33 – You need to have more conversations
19:03 – The hierarchy of communication
19:44 – Sending the wrong messages to your clients
24:50 – Should you list your services on your website?
30:11 – The importance of learning from your own mistakes