167 - The Jeremy Hanson Podcast "The 80/20 Business Blueprint: Why 20% of Your Work Creates 80% of Your Profit"

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Jeremy Hanson discusses the 80/20 rule and how focusing on the right activities can significantly increase business profits.

The Jeremy Hanson Podcast "The 80/20 Business Blueprint: Why 20% of Your Work Creates 80% of Your Profit" THE JEREMY HANSON PODCAST EPISODE TITLE The 80/20 Business Blueprint: Why 20% of Your Work Creates 80% of Your Profit Most service business owners are not under-earning because they work too little. They are under-earning because they spend most of their week working on the wrong things. In this episode of The Jeremy Hanson Podcast, Jeremy breaks down the 80/20 rule — also known as the Pareto Principle — and shows how a small percentage of customers, services, employees, and marketing channels are quietly producing the majority of every business owner's revenue, profit, and momentum. The episode is not the surface-level motivational version of this idea. Jeremy walks through how to actually pull customer revenue reports, run profit-by-service-line analysis, audit lead source data, and track time honestly for two weeks to expose where the real leverage is hiding inside a service business. He explains why most owners stay exhausted, why busy is not the same as productive, and why the most profitable owners he has watched over twenty-plus years are the ones willing to sit with…

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Hanson

Topics covered

• 80/20 rule
• Pareto Principle
• service business
• profit analysis
• specialization
• business systems

Keywords

• 80/20 rule
• Pareto Principle
• service business
• profit analysis
• customer revenue
• lead source data
• time tracking
• specialization
• business systems

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Organizations: The Jeremy Hanson Podcast

Books & works: The 80/20 Business Blueprint: Why 20% of Your Work Creates 80% of Your Profit

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