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✩ Helping Founders fill the sales pipeline w/ Presold Buyers
✩ CEO @predictableprofits
✩ Co-Founder @getfoundersfuel
✩ "CEO Whisperer" Yahoo Finance

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Does every person on your team know the number that defines whether they are succeeding? @charlesgaudet of @predictableprofits explains why clear KPIs remove guesswork and create stronger accountability. #theinnerestatepodcast Episode live now. #businesskpis #viralviews #keyperformanceindicators #businessmetrics

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Go-to advisor for seven-figure founders, @charlesgaudet of @predictableprofits reveals why most business revenues stay unpredictable and how to fix it. Full episode with Charles Gaudet is live now on #TheInnerEstatePodcast

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You built the business. But could it keep growing if you stepped away?

@charlesgaudet founder of @predictableprofits joins #TheInnerEstatePodcast to unpack what business independence really requires, from predictable profits and recurring revenue to systems, KPIs, founder freedom, and building success without sacrificing your health, family, or quality of life. 🎙 Listen via the link in the comments. #predictableprofits #founderfreedom #businessindependence #predictablerevenue

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Find something that lights you up so much that you just never want to stop. Tune in to the upcoming episode of #theinnerestatepodcast with @charlesgaudet of @predictableprofits to discover how to build a business and a life that truly energizes you!

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@charlesgaudet started his first business at four years old.

He'll tell you it wasn't inspiration. It was desperation. His dad worked every waking hour of every day, leaving before Charlie was out of bed, coming home after he was asleep. Charlie didn't see his father until about third grade.

Tony Robbins says we do things either out of inspiration or desperation. Charlie chose desperation early, and carried that wiring into his twenties, into a real estate development company, into a habit of setting his alarm for 3:30 am and getting up at midnight to work if he happened to wake for any other reason.

Then an emergency room doctor told him his organs were shutting down.

The question that Charlie asked was why are my competitors working half the hours and making more money? And the answer? Systems and scalability became the Predictable Profits Operating System … a framework that has now helped 1,000+ founders in 55+ industries generate well over a billion dollars in revenue, while working less.

The business built to create freedom. The system built to deliver it.

Watch the full episode. Link in bio.

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NEW EPISODE ALERT – At just 24, @charlesgaudet built his first multi-million-dollar company by working from 3:30 am, seven days a week, until he was in an emergency room with his organs shutting down.

The doctor told him he was dying.

Driving home one day, he'd looked through the windshield, seen his house, and known he wasn't going to make it there.

What that moment forced was a question he'd never thought to ask … why are my competitors working half as many hours and making more money? What are they doing differently?

The answer was systems. That answer became the Predictable Profits Operating System, and a career coaching 1,000+ founders out of the trap he'd built himself into at 24.

On the latest episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, Charlie and I build a live model together: The Founder's Trap® and the PPOS Escape Architecture - the three layers, the three pillars and the 90-day sequence that changes everything.

"Your business should be so profitable and so effortless that you can keep it forever, or sell it tomorrow."

Watch the full conversation. Link in bio.

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Are you a CEO or have your created yourself just another highly demanding job? #ceo #business #coaching #businessowner #predictableprofits

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We ran a workshop and signed 5 new clients from it. Here are the results.

58 registrations. 62% attendance rate. 36% of those who attended booked a call, and 38% of those calls became full clients. More calls are booked for next week...

Workshops are one of our favorite conversion pathways to install in a business. Each stage feeds the next, and the follow-up between them does the work.

5 clients signed in one week is $108,000 in annualized revenue, before our typical client LTV.

We run one every 6 weeks, and our next one is Nov 11th. Save this and write down your four numbers from your last event. When is your next workshop?

I post the operator's version of this every week. Follow if you want the systems, not the theory.

#workshops #founders #businessgrowth #predictablepipeline #operator

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A workshop is not the same thing as a webinar. Confusing them is why you might be disappointed with the outcome.

The core difference is how people show up, and what they then do with the time you have allocated. That decides whether they are ready to keep moving forward.

A webinar informs. You present for the entire time, often with Q&A at the end. Registrations get watched most closely, because people are usually off camera or there for the recording, and sometimes you never see a face. Then they have to process what they learned and put it into action on their own.

A workshop demonstrates. The best ones work around one narrow, specific problem where you can move the needle in two hours or less. People are on camera, present and participating, doing the work. Consumption is built in, because the format requires them to be involved. Add a paid element and the quality of the room is almost guaranteed. Free workshops still bring some tire kickers.

Which have you been running, a webinar or a workshop? And what happened afterward? Comment below, and send this to someone who is still calling a webinar a workshop.

#workshops #webinars #foundersofinstagram #businessowner #ceofreedom

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The 4 metrics to track for your workshop, and what you should be aiming for.

Registrations: aim for 30-100 (paid rooms run smaller than free ones). We landed 64 on our last paid workshop. The raw number matters less than audience quality, how directly it maps to the number of clients you actually need to close. You often don't need nearly as many registrations as you think.

Attendance rate: aim for 40-70%, 40% is the floor. We hit 68%. Below 40%, the problem is your nurture and the consumption journey before the workshop, not the workshop itself.

Conversion rate: aim for 20-40% of attendees to the next step. We hit 33%. This depends heavily on your offer, straight to a client decision, a gateway offer, or a call, so compare like for like.

Follow-up email open rate: aim for 40-60%+. Normal email open rates sit around 20-30%, which is why this number should be well above that. Don't give the replay away for free, make people reply or respond to unlock it.

Four numbers, four different jobs. If one of yours is off, it tells you exactly where to look:

- Low registrations, that's a topic and targeting problem.
- Low attendance, that's a nurture problem.
- Low conversion, that's a room problem.
- Low open rate, that's an engagement problem, a well-nurtured list with strong attendance should carry through to a much higher open rate.

Which of these four do you actually track right now?

Save this so you have the full scorecard before your next workshop.

#workshop #coaching #ceo #founder #entrepreneurship

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Most founders become 3 bad executives rolled into 1.

Watch: where CEO, COO and CFO ownership actually splits, and why not closing that gap is capping your revenue until you fix it.

From zero to just under a million, you're setting direction, running the operations, doing the finances, maybe even building the product, all in the same day. That works, until you add a team and grow past word of mouth. Then the ceiling is you still trying to run all three seats.

CEO owns the bet. Scaling past a million means hiring people stronger than you into the other seats. Most founders reach for a sales hire first. The stronger move is handing off whatever takes the biggest share of your time, the work that keeps you in the business instead of on it. That's typically operations.

COO owns the machine. Once operations are eating your time, that's the seat to hand off first. It rarely starts as a COO hire. The path usually runs assistant, then chief of staff, then COO, each step taking more of the machine off your plate.

CFO owns the numbers. Cash, runway, reinvestment, and what you pay yourself shouldn't run on your own math. This doesn't have to be an internal hire. Affordable outsourced firms exist that take the seat off your plate entirely, and do the job better than you ever could.

Once the machine and the numbers are off your desk, your job as CEO stays the same size it always was: vision, mission, ownership of the outcome, and a culture that chases solutions instead of problems.

The time test: where's your biggest opportunity right now? Being a stronger CEO and leaning into vision, mission, ownership and culture. Offloading operations because they're eating your time. Or bringing in a CFO to open up money you can't see.

Which one is costing you the most? CEO, COO or CFO. Comment the seat you're weakest at running right now and I'll tell you where to start unwinding it.

#FoundersTrap #CEOFreedom #BusinessOwnership #ScaleYourBusiness #SmallBusinessOwner

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