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The $10,000 Question Every Business Owner Avoids
The truth most consultants won't tell you
Here's a question that makes most entrepreneurs uncomfortable:
"If you disappeared for two weeks tomorrow, would your business run better, worse, or collapse entirely?"
If you're honest, the answer isn’t “run better”
And that single fact is costing you more than you realize.
Every day your business depends on you personally is another day you're:
Bleeding time on decisions that should be automated
Losing energy on questions you've answered 100 times before
Missing money because you're the bottleneck
The math is simple…
Let’s say you're worth $200/hour but spending 20 hours a week on $20/hour tasks that can be eliminated, automated or delegated, you're losing $3,600 every single week.
That's $187,200 per year in opportunity cost.
Your business doesn't have a people problem. It has a systems problem.
You don't need better employees. You need better SOPs.
You don't need more hours. You need more leverage.
The businesses that scale smoothly don't have smarter founders. They have smarter systems.
Systems that capture knowledge instead of trapping it in people's heads.
Systems that handle decisions instead of creating bottlenecks.
Systems that multiply your impact instead of limiting it.
And if you want to learn what those systems are for your own business, this week we’re offering free business operation audits to help you identify exactly where you're bleeding time, energy, and money.
On the call, we'll:
Map your current operations and identify the biggest bottlenecks
Show you which processes are costing you the most (you'll be surprised)
Give you a clear roadmap for systemizing your highest-impact areas first
No pitch. No pressure. Just clarity on what's actually holding your business back.
Reply "Audit" and we’ll send you some more details so you can book in your free audit call.
Build a business that runs on systems, not people.
Chris "The Systemizer" Punt
P.S. If your business isn’t running on systems, the most expensive employee in your business is you.