{"id":94956,"date":"2024-05-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeybook-blog.site.strattic.io\/?p=94956"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:16:53","slug":"creating-profit-first-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/creating-profit-first-business","title":{"rendered":"Creating a profit-first business with Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/hbbadmin.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94957\" style=\"width:1450px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new-1536x1189.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/54-blog-new.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udca1<strong><strong>There is power in knowing your numbers and how you can use that data to create a profit-first business.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it look like to create a profit-first business? 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While it sounds simple, it\u2019s actually hard to build a profit-first business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With traditional businesses, we\u2019re taught that our profit equals revenue minus expenses. While this makes logical sense, it doesn\u2019t make behavioral sense. It\u2019s human nature that when something comes last, it\u2019s not a priority. Most businesses wait until the end of the year to prioritize their profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A profit-first business flips the formula. In this model, sales minus profits equals expenses. Every time revenue comes into the business, you take a predetermined percentage of it and hide it away from the business, and then run the business off of the remainder.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By doing this, you reverse engineer your profit. Your business will adjust to run on the remainder, just like US employees adjust to living off of their net incomes instead of gross incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The psychology behind building a profit-first business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a behavior propensity called loss aversion, which is when we incur more expenses as we incur more income. The second that our income starts to dip, a theory called Parkinson\u2019s law sets in, which compels us to continue spending at our new lifestyle. We try to sustain our spending habits despite our income decreasing, which leads to debt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast majority of small business owners experience this pattern because our income is volatile. Flipping the paradigm and operating with a profit-first business model is the way to get out of this pattern and see success in your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common resistance points to a profit-first business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some independent business owners resist building a profit-first business because it feels opposite from what they\u2019ve been taught and doing in their business. You have to overcome thinking that this model is wrong before you can make the switch, and part of that process is noticing the flaws in the bottom-line business model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next resistance is the fact that you have to change your own behavior to move to a profit-first business, and behavioral change is hard. You have to break out of your regular routine and be disciplined enough to do things in a new way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, business owners don\u2019t want to interfere with their bank to set up a profit-first system. 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If you have a bookkeeper, ask them to explain what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The four principles of a profit-first business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set up your envelope system so that your profit is automatically taken from your revenue before your expenses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sequence matters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove temptation \u2014 make your profit account inaccessible to your business so that you aren\u2019t tempted to pull from it to cover your bills.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get into the rhythm of checking your balance every week or every two weeks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The biggest differentiator between the businesses that succeed and the ones that fail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike believes that the biggest differentiator between the businesses that succeed and the ones that fail is that entrepreneurs who care for themselves, physically and mentally, have healthier businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id='lightbox-inline-form-72d76c86-612d-405d-b925-c461f6acfb95'><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important sections of the conversation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[1:40] Defining a profit first business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[5:45] The psychology behind building a profit first business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[8:54] Common resistance points to a profit first business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[15:48] Creating profit first systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[21:18] The four principles of a profit first business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[26:30] The biggest differentiator between the businesses that succeed and the ones that fail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connect with the guest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemichalowicz.com\/\">https:\/\/mikemichalowicz.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Profit First book: <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemichalowicz.com\/profit-first\/\">https:\/\/mikemichalowicz.com\/profit-first\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<span id=\"transcript\"><\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-accordion ugb-accordion ugb-5eb442b ugb-accordion--v2 ugb-accordion--design-basic ugb-main-block\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"transcript\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__item\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__heading\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"><h4 class=\"ugb-accordion__title\">Episode Transcript<\/h4><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\" class=\"ugb-accordion__arrow\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><path d=\"M16.7 3.3L10 10 3.3 3.4 0 6.7l10 10v-.1l10-9.9z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"ugb-accordion__content\" role=\"region\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__content-inner\">\n<p>Akua: What does it look like to create a profit first business? Well, today on the podcast, you are going to find out Mike Michalowicz, who is the author of Profit First joins us on the show today to talk about the financial strategies we need to be implementing to create a successful and sustainable business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this episode, Mike reminds us that there is power in knowing your numbers and how you can use that data to propel you forward to create a profit first business. Now let&#8217;s get into the episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey everyone. This is your host Akua Kanadu and you&#8217;re listening to the Independent Business Podcast. More people than ever are working for themselves and building profitable businesses in the process. So on this show, I get to sit down with some of the most influential authors, entrepreneurs, and creators to break down the signs of self made success so that you can achieve it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, Mike. How are you?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: I&#8217;m doing well, Akua. How are you?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua: Great. So excited to have you here because we have heard your name thrown around in the entrepreneurial community. And so&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: I&#8217;m so excited that you were sharing that off air. And we both are cacklers. So we start co cackling. Thank you for sharing. It gets me excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua: Yes, absolutely. Because you are impacting so many business owners. And so we were like, we have to bring you on the show and know more about you and know more about your book, Profit First. And we are just so, so excited. So thank you so much for being here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: That&#8217;s my joy. Thank you for having me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua: Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay. So let&#8217;s just hop in and give us a quick rundown of what a profit first business is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: Okay. It&#8217;s a business that takes its profit first. It literally is that simple and also that hard traditional business we&#8217;ve been told. I know who you know, this is our revenue, our sales, my expenses. Result in profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while that makes logical sense, it doesn&#8217;t make behavioral sense. It&#8217;s human nature that when something comes last, it&#8217;s not a priority. Uh, you know, if you love your family, a coup, I suspect you don&#8217;t say I love my family so much, I&#8217;m putting them last. It&#8217;s absurd. You say, I love my family. I put them first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, I care for my health. I put it first, but we&#8217;re told profits the bottom line or the year end, which is vernacular for saying it comes last. So for most businesses. We wait till the end of the year. It doesn&#8217;t present itself or maybe next year, maybe next year. And it&#8217;s this constant struggle. We hope we can sell our way out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It profit first business flips the formula. It&#8217;s sales minus profit equals expenses. And what I mean in practice is every time revenue comes into your company, we&#8217;re going to take a predetermined percentage, five or 10%, whatever it may be, hide that money from the business. And run the business off the remainder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s a form of reverse engineering profit. The last thing I want to share about this is the greatest savings mechanism in US history has proven so far to be the 401k. The reason it&#8217;s such a great savings mechanism is we receive a gross income, but prior to receiving the net, the actual check. Our savings are taken out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we ultimately don&#8217;t miss it. We adjust. So will our business. And if you take your profit first, you assure permanent profitability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua: That is true. We always do put profit last. And so naturally you just do, it&#8217;s like the traditional, like I think in your book, you call it the traditional business accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so we do look at it that way, but it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s such a great mind shift of, you know, taking that money and putting it aside easily because then it also makes it a lot easier to manage your money. So that actually makes like a lot of sense where you&#8217;re like, Oh. Why am I not doing that?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: So I used to, you know, for my business, say a thousand dollar deposit would come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say, Oh, okay, I got a thousand dollars. I need to buy a new computer. I can use it here. Or maybe I can hire someone else if I can keep this up. So what we do is we look at the total amount and then we make assumptions on how we can spend it. But the reality is that 1, 000 has multiple responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A portion is to give you profit. I will tell you, if you started a business, you are an extraordinary human being because the vast majority of the world will never start a business or run a business. The majority of the world is looking for good jobs with good companies. And so our job is to build a good company to give good jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, I say the number one job of an entrepreneur is not to do the work. It&#8217;s to be a creator of the work. So when a thousand dollars comes in, some of it&#8217;s to profit rewarding you for contributing to our society. Secondly, we got to pay you a normal compensation. Like for the work you do, you deserve a salary if you&#8217;re working in the business and then taxes, you know, these taxes come up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And right when we&#8217;re recording this, we&#8217;re approaching tax season. Those bills are going to comment on historically. I was like, well, uh, how do I do this? I have to have a fire sale and some of it is to cover expenses. 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And just some of the cycle, it doesn&#8217;t have to be specifically that, but just some of the psychology that you have seen as to, again, why traditional like business accounting doesn&#8217;t work, why we struggle to make a profitable business essentially.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: Yeah. So there&#8217;s this behavioral propensity called loss aversion, and this is my passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;m a behavioral psychologist. I&#8217;m not certified in this, but I study it constantly because when we understand how our mind works, we can understand how we manage all aspects of our life, including money. So loss aversion is this. As income increases, you may have noticed that we have a propensity to spend at the same rate of increasing income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect where you are today, Akua, in your life, where I am today, and many of the listeners, you have probably more income today than you did at a certain point in your life. There was a point when you had less money. Ironically, for most of us, as we incur more income, we incur more expenses, almost at the exact same rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what happened, and there&#8217;s a reason behind that called Parkinson&#8217;s law, another behavioral To your earlier point, is the second we start feeling a dip, like our income drops, loss aversion sets in and we say, well, I can&#8217;t lose my new lifestyle. This is my new standard. So we actually try to sustain the spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often the only way to do that is running up debt. Credit cards, loans and so forth. So now we have this gap. Our income is less than our spend. This gap increases debt and puts burden on us. The vast majority of entrepreneurs live in this situation because income is very volatile. It&#8217;s not a straight line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time there&#8217;s a dip, we sustain our new standard. So there&#8217;s a funny saying that small business is on the brink of failure. 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You know how to sustain. Now we&#8217;ve got to change a few things. The final point is most success is already embedded in your business. It&#8217;s just an awareness of the things that work need to be amplified, do those better. And the things that aren&#8217;t working need to be adjusted or removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if we stay in that discipline of amplify works, fix what isn&#8217;t or ditch, what isn&#8217;t. You&#8217;ll find your business starts shifting very quickly to the positive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua: Oh, I love that so much. That&#8217;s such, such a great, again, like, I just love the mindset change. It doesn&#8217;t make money hard. Again, it&#8217;s just like really taking the time, taking the time, setting that time, dedicated time aside to be able to get a better understanding of your finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you talk about, Exactly like the four principles and I think you&#8217;ve already just touched through it So if you could just summarize it beautifully so people can have a like understand like okay This is the next step of what I can do&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: So number one we already talked about setting up the envelope system, but it is rooted in this concept called parkinson&#8217;s law So i&#8217;ll touch on that really quickly It was a theorist in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that we are driven more by supply than demand. We&#8217;re often told as demand increases, the more we&#8217;ll supply to meet demand, right? The more people want your service, the more to buy it. Uh, the Parkinson point actually reversed. He says, human nature, as supply increases, we consume more. You put more food on a plate in front of me, I&#8217;ll eat more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if we intentionally constrain things, We&#8217;ll actually work within the confines of that constraint. Money&#8217;s the perfect example. The more money we make, the more we consume, the more we spend. So the profit first, we&#8217;re immediately hiding away like the 401k some money. We&#8217;re constraining the money available to the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what it does is it triggers us to work within that. It&#8217;s called forced frugality. But there&#8217;s also this beautiful thing that happens. It&#8217;s called innovation. We started thinking outside the box. There&#8217;s a team, a baseball team that you may or may not have heard of, but you will, if you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s called the Savannah bananas, uh, and they&#8217;re becoming wildly popular, their users of profit first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They emailed me seven years ago when they were starting up and said, we&#8217;re implementing is from day one. They implemented it and there wasn&#8217;t enough money to pay to maintain the scoreboard. If they took their profit first, instead of saying this doesn&#8217;t work, they said, we can&#8217;t have a scoreboard. How do we tell the score without having a scoreboard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they invited people from the audience to hold up the score, kind of like a boxing ring or a boxing match. Then they actually invited the audience to be cheerleaders. They now call them the grandma bananas. Uh, yet the rule is you have to be 80 years old or over and teeth are optional. 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So I&#8217;m going to wrap this up with one last question that we love to ask everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the biggest differentiator between the businesses that succeed and the ones that fail?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: I&#8217;m going to start something crazy with you because you probably never heard this before. I find that entrepreneurs who care for themselves Physically, mentally, inevitably have a healthier business. I I&#8217;ve been studying so many businesses and like, what&#8217;s the common thread?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the entrepreneur is willing to care for themselves first, which is sacrifice. It means you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re doing the exercise, you&#8217;re spending the time on yourself and they&#8217;re coming to their business, which much more strength it&#8217;s these all in workaholics maybe look good in the moment. 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And it&#8217;s like, if you didn&#8217;t take care of yourself and do the things that you needed to do in order to be at a good place to attain that, now that you&#8217;ve attained that, that it doesn&#8217;t necessarily like feel as good as you had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I think that&#8217;s just, Mike. I have loved this conversation. It has been so impactful. Um, y&#8217;all please get profit first. We will absolutely be having the book in the show notes, but Mike, for people to connect with you, where can they find you?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike: I&#8217;ll give you a shortcut. My last name is so hard to spell McCallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s there&#8217;s a shortcut. You can go to Mike motorbike as in the motorcycle. It rhymes a nickname from grade school. It&#8217;s the only PG nickname I had. Mike motorbike. com. Uh, all my book chapter downloads are for free. I have like two or three chapters from each book. 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