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When things feel heavy in your business, it’s usually because you’re holding onto things past their use-by date. Deletion creates space for progress.
Some successful founders finish their workday before most people start theirs. That reveals how wrong most definitions of success really are.
Sometimes the hardest leadership decisions linger because effort looks like progress. One simple question can bring months of tension to an end.
You can feel something is wrong in a partnership long before you can explain it. Clarity comes when you start asking the right questions.
The most important moment in a subscription business happens before anyone clicks cancel. It happens when activity drops and no one responds.
When a new hire struggles quickly, it is tempting to assume the hire was wrong. But repeated outcomes can mean issues in onboarding and evaluation.
You’re not stuck in your business because you’re lazy. You’re stuck because you’re spending your most valuable hours on work anyone else could do.
Growth often looks like adding more products, more offers, and more activity. In reality, it is usually the opposite that creates profit.
Founders often believe they hired the wrong people. In reality, they built a workflow that makes even smart people hesitant and dependent.
Leadership breaks down the moment standards become optional. When you tolerate low performance, you communicate that excellence is negotiable.
Years of accumulated content made it impossible for Google and prospects to see what James actually did. One massive cleanup changed that.
You don’t need to post daily or chase cold leads to land high-value clients. You need a repeatable way to engage the people already in your orbit.
A $99 offer doesn’t need a 90-minute webinar. It needs confidence, clarity, and a fast path to “yes.”
Weak performers waste opportunities you cannot replace. Improving sales team performance keeps customers from disappearing for good.
Scaling gets hard when you assume your systems are the issue. Often the real lesson in how to scale a service business is hidden in one overlooked step.
The fastest way to improve your results is not adding features or doing longer calls. It is tightening the filters that decide who you work with.
Freedom isn’t a reward for hard work; it’s a test of who you’ve become. Escaping the identity trap means being at peace when there’s nothing to fix.
The difference between energizing and exhausting clients is clarity. Align your message to attract your ideal clients.
Most SEO agencies promise rankings. Gert Mellak uses SEO to increase revenue, with sprint-based projects to fix the leaks holding your site back.
Every founder says they want more time, yet few create the structure that gives it to them. Simplifying how you work is often the fastest way to grow.
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Been listening for years and have always enjoyed James's style of teaching business and entrepreneurship. Very relaxed and even laconic, but always relating something valuable. This was an exceptional episode, because he was reflecting upon someone he has expressed in the past he had a bit of an antagonistic relationship with. However, he spoke with an almost reverence for the individual showing a great deal of grace. Thank You for all of the incredible teaching. Hotep 𓋹 𓂀 𓋹
This was the perfect little push I needed to help me get going on my own video strategy. Making those first few steps so straightforward alleviates some of the apprehension I had about the process. Also, you guys had such a great rapport, it made it like having a couple of friends giving the you necessary encouragement to proceed. Hotep.