#ALB82 – John Warrillow
This month’s episode is slightly different, as you know we normally chat with a client, but today we are taking to bestselling author John Warrillow, who is the author of best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and just so happens to be John Lamerton’s favourite book.
John is also the host of Built to Sell Radio, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s 10 best podcasts for business owners. In 2015, John wrote another best-selling book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry. John completes the trilogy with his latest book, The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top.
Let’s get the house valued
Just because you book a valuation, doesn’t necessarily mean you are going to sell your house that month, the same applies for your retirement pot, you check it as you want it to be ready when you are ready to move house or retire.
Well, the same applies for your business.
Scaling back
The pandemic has been a struggle for most business owners, but what many have realised is that actually they are able to operate a much leaner business model, that perhaps you do not need offices and multiple overheads. And this in turn has seen a trend in more lifestyle businesses being created.
Subscription models are the way forward
John and Jason are HUGE fans of a subscription model, in fact most of their businesses run on this model. But why do they like them so much?
Yes or No
How much time would you free up by being able to answer employees’ questions with a simple Yes or No answer? Learn the art of a “Yesable question”
So, do you want to sell your business?
You probably don’t, but how many of you would like to know you “COULD” sell your business if you wanted too?
For links to everything we talk about, including the video recording of the episode and transcription of everything we talked about, head over to the show notes at bigidea.co.uk/podcast.
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