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 ContextForecasting your budgets onto your ClientsAttacking other businesses instead of building their ownAttempting to do too many things at onceNot focusing on communication enoughSending 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!

 

Don’t Forget about the 2019 Two Brain Summit, June 8-9 in Chicago! This year we have some amazing topics and guests for both yourself and your coaches. Click here to register and sign up now!

 

 

Links:

https://twobrainbusiness.com/

 

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