Chapter 1: What mindset shifts can help unlock business potential?
You've been looking at your business through a keyhole, when there's actually a massive door in front of you that you can open up and see what it truly is. I hate the word mindset so much that I might have to write a book about it. So many things in my life have happened because I like, it's so funny.
It's like, I had my gyms and I had six gyms and like, I didn't know many people who had more gyms than me for most of the time that I had my gyms. And people started reaching out and asking me for help with the gyms. And I told Layla, No matter what, I was like, I never want to become a gym guru. And then like at the end of this whole life cycle, I ended up becoming like the biggest gym guru.
And so it's like, I hate the term mindset. I think it sucks. I think people have all this mythology around it. They're like, these things get stored in your body and there's these synchronicities and frequencies and vibrations and manifestation. It's like, dude, just define what you're talking about. Like, what are you saying?
And whenever people say those things, I'm going to go a little amorphous and then I'm going to get back to business, all right? So don't worry. Give it two minutes. Two minutes and then we're going to hit business again, all right? That's my last point. When you begin to see language as behavior, so let me explain what that means. If I say hi, then I'm soliciting a response from someone.
the sound hi, then they have been reinforced for saying hi back or what's up, right? And so what happens is, for example, I'll give you a different version of this. If I begin to cry, then I'm going to solicit a certain type of response from people around me. And this is where people start to create vicious cycles. Let me give you an example of one.
This is one that I realized with Layla, my wife, so I'll just be real with you. So if Layla cries in the earlier part of our relationship, well, for many years, I'll be real with you, many years, when Layla would cry, I would try and comfort, and if she was still crying, I would stay quiet because I didn't know what to do. And she would still cry. And then I would get angry.
And then she would stop crying. And so what ended up happening is that I ended up being reinforced for getting angry when she was sad. And so when she would cry, I would get angry. And then she would stop crying. Because I learned to get, not consciously, but I learned to get Layla to stop crying, get upset.
And so then Layla was like, well, I don't want to be upset around you because you only get angry with me. And then I had to learn more about behavior. And then I was like, oh, wow, I learned the wrong lesson here. And I bring this up to say that
The words we say, oftentimes, we don't even mean the words because we've never defined the words, but we say the words because of how other people respond when we say them. And so if you're in a community of people, for example, that say manifestation, frequency, synchronicities, all this wild shit, right? You say these things. These people agree with you and say, you are one of us.
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Chapter 2: How does language influence behavior in business?
There's so many people. It's super competitive. It's red ocean. Everyone has these different terms. Like, I don't want to start this thing because there's so many people doing it. Here's what's insane. 99% of people who say this are completely wrong.
And so unless you're selling to 140 people in a rural town in the middle of nowhere, your market is probably 100 or 1,000 times bigger than you think. And the average entrepreneur has tapped into less than 1% of the actual market. And so there is a massive gap between how you see your market, how you perceive your market, and how big it actually is.
Once you figure that out, you'll realize you've been looking at your business through a keyhole, when there's actually a massive door in front of you that you can open up and see what it truly is. And so what I'm about to tell you completely change how you see your business's potential is total addressable market.
And you'll see why it's actually good to go into saturated markets, why red oceans could actually be an amazing opportunity for you. And it starts with understanding why this limiting belief exists to begin with. Now, The reason this exists to begin with, for the most part, in my opinion, is that people want to protect their egos.
They say that their market is too small, and that's the reason they haven't been able to scale. I can't scale my ads past $1,000 a day because I think I've saturated my market. No, bro, you haven't saturated your market. You haven't saturated Facebook. Your ads suck. You don't know different levels of awareness.
You only know how to advertise to an avatar that understands the solution and product that you're selling. As soon as you get above that, there's a much larger market that could actually buy your stuff. But because you don't know how to advertise, you're unable to reach it. And rather than say, I do not know how to advertise in a way that gets more leads, I do not know how to scale.
Instead, you say, the market is too small. Real. Now, I wanna be clear here. If you have a local business, it is possible, like my 140 person example, it is possible that you're in a market that literally, there's 140 people in your market and you're in the middle of the Sahara Desert, yeah, it's probably not gonna work, right?
But most of the time, even in local markets, if you're in like an A market or B market, there's a million people in your city, there's 400,000 people in your city. If you need 200 to make business work, you are fine, right? There's other things that are holding you back. Now, if you're in basically any other industry,
which you can look up from like Google industry revenue, the likely that you have tapped your market is, it's almost impossible, all right? And the thing is, is that it is still one of the most commonly stated things and least commonly true. And so I'll tell you a quick story about this. So when I was, when I had gym launch, I wanted to start doing outbound.
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Chapter 3: What common misconceptions do entrepreneurs have about market saturation?
because I'm an even bigger fishy, right? Now I'm in a lake. And then eventually you get to the point where you say, you know what? I think that I'm big enough to go into open class, open market, and fight in the ocean. Now, if we were to look at this trajectory, I started as a trainer. And I talked about nutrition and stuff. And then I talked about gym stuff.
And then I started talking about business stuff. So you're going to have evolutions where you can get big enough for a pond that you can move on from the pond to the lake and the lake to the ocean. It's just that it's directly correlated with your skill and your experience.
And so the reason that the riches are in the niches is that when you're there, number one, you're competing against fewer people. And so the upside is capped, typically. Now, it's usually capped at way higher than you think it is, but it is capped to a degree, and that's okay.
But as a result, because we are niched down, we're able to charge niche prices, which give us more profit, more pricing power, because there's fewer people. There's fewer things to compare you against, right? And so there does come a time where you can go, move the market, move your market rather, to go after a different segment or a broader segment.
So let me walk through how to think through this evolution for a business. So let's say that your current business is this little dot here, okay? There are five directions that we can move with this dot. We can go, so let's imagine this is a, we've got a triangle of a marketplace, okay? So this is where you inhabit. You can go upmarket.
So for example, in my gym launch days, I could, instead of serving single location fragmented gym owners, I could go to franchisors, multi-location owners. and franchisors. So I have one-off gyms here. Now, the next direction, so this is direction number one I can do. Direction number two is I can go down market, which would be that I could go after trainers. There's way more trainers.
They have way less buying power, but there's a lot of them. There's fewer franchisors than there are gyms, and there's fewer gyms than there are trainers. Pyramid, right? So that's the second thing we can do. The next thing we can do is we can go adjacent. So instead of gyms, I say, you know what? I think I can help chiro. That's what I think I'm going to do.
I'm going to take my systems and we go into chiropractors. There'd be an adjacent market. I could also go broader, right? Which would mean that I would look at this way, which means instead of gyms, maybe I talk about health and wellness in general. And so that means that I could go after chiros, med spas, anybody, you know, weight loss clinics, whatever. All of these things are now broader.
Or I can go narrower. So instead of gyms, I say I'm only going to work with spin studios. I'm only gonna work with dancing studios. So this is our
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Chapter 4: How can understanding total addressable market change your perspective?
that they accept. But the thing is, is that you want to get really, really clear on this, because if you don't, your customers will be confused, because they won't know what you're really about. Can you scroll up on my notes? So, keep going, keep going, keep going. Okay, so the tactics for you, if you're like, all right,
I am not getting, because typically people will say that they are in too small of a market because they're not getting as many leads as they want, which are two completely different issues, right? And so if you can at least believe the idea that I have that there is other ways to get customers than you're currently doing, which I'll refer to back here.
What you do is you say, how do I make content in more places? How do I make more of it? How do I make it better? And then eventually you say, how do I also run ads? How do I also pair outreach with that? And that is how you can achieve omnipresence as a business. And so you need to do more in more places, even better, consistently, for a long period of time.
Because it's unlikely that you've actually capped the market. You are just too unskilled to capture the significantly larger percentage of the pie. And that's okay. And that's how we stay in the niche for the short term. And then eventually as you get better, you can expand it and expand it and expand it.
Chapter 5: What strategies can businesses use to expand their market reach?
And you keep eating. And that's all right. And totally normal. Now... Now, I said at the very beginning, if you're a local market, this can sometimes bite you. So I want to give some of the local guys, which usually like 35% of people are listening to this. So I'm going to go real quick for you guys, what you can actually do to expand how much you can make with just a single location.
So number one is you can expand your actual location. So that means you knock down walls, you add seats, you just increase efficiency. Like how can I get more? from my existing four walls, how to get more out of it. Like for me, when I started getting too crowded at my first gym, I cut the class times from 45 minutes to 30 minutes. And by doing that, I got one and a half times more classes in.
I cut out the breaks between classes. So again, I could fit more people in. I could also extend and open more hours. All of those things expand your existing location. The second thing that you can do is what I just walked through, which is you add more channels. So, okay, you're posting on Instagram. Are you posting on X? Are you posting on YouTube? Are you posting on Facebook?
Are you posting on TikTok? Like you expand channels. And I would say that many of you guys have heard my rule of one avatar, one product, one channel until you get to a million dollars a year. The only exception to this is sometimes local businesses. Now, if you're in, I would say, an A or B market, you can totally just do that to get to a million dollars a year.
If you're in like a C or D market, so I would say, I don't know what the numbers are there, but I'm assuming it's probably like less than 50,000 people in like a 10-mile radius. of where you're at. If you're at less than 50, then you're going to probably need to use more than one channel to get customers because there's just not as many people.
You have to saturate that tiny market by getting in front of more people in more places. The third thing that you can do is you open another location. So you can expand the current one. You can add channels to drive you more into the current one. But at a certain point, you're going to max out your four walls. And so you just open a new spot.
And I see that as the eventuality of most of these businesses. And I think this is kind of interesting because a lot of people feel like they're like, I don't know if this is a $100 million opportunity. It's like, well, yeah, your one store is in a $100 million opportunity. But you being able to duplicate and nail the model and then scale the model absolutely is. And so even if
I can almost promise you, like, sorry, I almost swallowed my gum. If you have the goal of getting to $10 million a year, you can pretty much do it in any business. If you have the goal, with the exception of if you are a brick and mortar and there's 100 people in your local market, probably not.
But outside of that, that business model, even if you were in a tiny market, could get to $10 million a year. You just open up in new markets. That's all you do, right? And so most people's goals are achievable within their current vehicle. They were just too impatient and believe that there's another shiny object that someone will get there faster.
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