Why business owners become the bottleneck
You started the business to build a better future for yourself and your family. You’re very good at what you do. At some point you probably felt you could do it better than your old bosses or companies.
Maybe you wanted to prove something to them, or to a teacher or two. Mostly you wanted freedom. The chance to choose your own path and build a better life for you and the people you love.
Then the business succeeds, and a common pattern shows up. Successful business owners become the bottleneck.
Your skills got you here. Now the demands of running the whole business land on you.
Marketing and sales are hard to scale. People are unpredictable. Cash flow and tax pile up. The workload grows until the business takes over your life and leaves little time for anything else.
It’s the single most common pattern we see as a business coach in Liverpool working with established, growing companies.
You’ve put everything into it, and now the business relies entirely on you. At this point the business is you doing all the work.
That’s where we come in. We help owners turn a successful business into one that runs without them.
We call it making your business work so you don’t have to. The point is choice: doing what you want, on your terms.
Make your business work so you don’t have to
Four reasons to get the business running without you, with you out of the bottleneck:
- With the business running without you, you can put 100% of your effort into growing it, for an even higher return on that effort.
- You get time with your family, time for hobbies, time for whatever makes life better.
- You choose the parts of the business you enjoy, and the rest is taken care of.
- A business that works without you is a saleable asset. Many owners never realise they could build one. What that means for you is a conversation for your accountant or a qualified adviser.
ActionCOACH has helped millions of people around the world build businesses that work, so the owner doesn’t have to.
Owners who stopped being the bottleneck
Joe was working 80 hours a week and was really stressed. He got the business working without him and sold it for a seven-figure exit in under two years of working with me.
Paul now makes more profit than he made in turnover five years ago, when we first started.
Craig had over 1000% growth in two years. He no longer takes his printer on holiday.
Abdul used to make £20K profit a year working all hours. Now he works 5 to 10 hours a week and makes £2M+ profit a year.
Stephen used to work hard for every pound. Now his business runs without him. He invests heavily in property and starts new businesses for fun, because he knows the exact framework to get a business working so he doesn’t have to.
Neil came to me as the bottleneck in his business. He’s had big year-on-year growth. A management team now runs the business while he spends 90% of his time investing in property. You can read more stories like these on our results page.
ActionCOACH has more than 30 years of experience and pioneered the business coaching industry. Over a thousand coaches around the world do this work.
Let’s talk F.A.C.T.S.
We do it through the F.A.C.T.S. approach:
- F is for Framework: the 6 Steps to a Business that can work without you.
- A is for Accountability: your coach holds you to what you said you’d do.
- C is for Community: you join a community of owners working towards the same goal.
- T is for Training: plenty of training, prescribed for you and your business.
- S is for Support: someone you can confide in, who helps you through the tough times.
Finding out how we can help takes three simple steps:
- Book a discovery call (where you are now and where you want to get to)
- Attend a strategy meeting (fill the gap)
- Agree a coaching programme (get to work)
You have two choices after reading this. Work it out on your own, which is usually the longest and hardest route, with a real risk you stay where you are or go backwards. Or give business coaching a go, commit to it 100%, and get a guaranteed result.
Our guarantee
The guarantee is simple. You make more profit than you pay us.
We only take on owners we believe we can help. We only sell a programme that fits. Independent client satisfaction surveys put our success rate above 98%.
What clients said in the WorkBuzz survey
In a 2023 survey run by independent research agency WorkBuzz, 558 clients completed our client satisfaction survey. The results:
- 98% of clients would recommend ActionCOACH to a friend or business associate
- 96% of clients agree that ActionCOACH has a powerful suite of business solutions
- 99% of clients said their ActionCOACH makes a positive difference to their lives
- 94% of clients said ActionCOACH is worth the investment
- 88% of clients that have used ActionCOACH for 1 or more years agreed they have a better work:life balance
A coach alongside you gets your ship in order faster.
We have the experience and knowledge to get your business stable and ready for growth. That’s 25% of what we offer, and we’ve done it time after time.
Good foundations. A team that works well. More revenue and profit. More life, more fun, more time.
Business should give you more life. How much of yours is it taking right now?
Book a free strategy call with an award-winning business coach in Liverpool. Your discovery call is the first step to making your business work so you don’t have to.
