What’s holding most service businesses back
I’ve been thinking about this lately, what’s actually holding most service businesses back? Is it: • Lack of leads • Poor systems • Weak pricing • Or the owner not stepping into the business rol...
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There could be a number of things here but I think in general it's the owner being the bottleneck. We get so wrapped up in to doing everything, not thinking we can afford to hire someone for it but in the end we just hurt ourselves by not getting out of the way.
Yes agree. The difficult part is that owners often know they’re the bottleneck, but they don’t know which task to remove first.
Lead generation is a good example. A lot of owners manually check Facebook groups, answer messages and chase opportunities themselves. It works until they get busy, then prospecting stops and the pipeline dries up again.
I’ve been working on automating that specific part so the owner only needs to respond when someone nearby is already looking for their service. Removing even one repetitive task can make it much easier to focus on quoting, hiring and actually running the business.
