Welcome to Day 30 of the Double Your Profit Series
The go-to series for contractors, home service owners, and small business entrepreneurs.
Today’s topic is one of the biggest levers you have in scaling your company: Cut Overhead Like a Maniac.
🧠 Why This Matters
Overhead is the silent profit stopper. Left unchecked, it can balloon quickly and quietly, eating into your margins without driving real growth. Every dollar tied up in overhead is a dollar not fueling revenue, marketing, or growth. To truly scale, you need to ruthlessly evaluate — and eliminate — non-strategic costs.
💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
Why overhead rarely drives revenue (and what actually does).
The danger of overinvesting in facilities and creating bloated fixed costs.
Smart strategies: combining roles, automating back office, and outsourcing non-strategic work.
Why cutting consultants is often the easiest way to reclaim cash.
The “cut first, ask questions later” philosophy to move fast on savings.
How to reward outperformance while cutting costs at the same time.
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🔥 Think of this episode as your mandate to build lean: trim the fat, invest only in what drives growth, and keep overhead from choking profit.
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