Podcast: Play in new window | Download
From a dream to a horror show, business can kick you in the gut and walk away without a care.
Brian talks about how to pick yourself up in tough times and keep moving.
Amazon-Proof Your Business➡️ https://brianjpombo.com/amazonbook/
Transcription
Is your business, your own worst nightmare?
Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.
This idea came to me, because I do run into quite a few business owners who loved their business when they got involved, they would not have gotten involved if they weren’t somewhat in love of the idea of their business, or at least what their business could provide them.
But now, it’s the monster that’s gone out of control I have here, this is an old classic illustrated not old, it’s a it’s a old, it’s a reprint of an old book, let’s see, this is probably from the 40s or 50s. I don’t have the date right in front of me.
But they used to take classic stories and make comic books out of them. And so they these are reprints of the originals. And so this was one that I, one of the stories that I’ve always enjoyed is Frankenstein, if you’ve never had a chance to read, or listen to the book on audio of the original Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it’s worth doing.
Because it’s not what the movies show it to be. It’s something completely different. And the main concept is that is that it’s mainly about the main character. It’s not about this creature that he created.
But it’s about Victor Frankenstein his journey into trying to create something and having that thing that he loved, that he wanted to love having it become the very thing that he ends up hating, and then they end up getting in a battle toward the end to where they’re hunting each other down to kill each other.
And so that’s what a lot of times I meet business owners who they are in a love hate relationship with their business. And nowadays, I hear more often than not, I hate relationship, I hate hate relationship with their business, but they don’t know what to do about it.
Because you’re, and this may be you perhaps you’re stuck in a situation where you’ve got employees that you’re taking care of their like family, and you can’t just leave them, you can’t just if you shut the doors, it’s not gonna hurt you, but it’ll hurt them, you know, or you, you’ve maybe you still owe money to creditors and investors and so forth.
And you don’t want to let them down, you want to at least get that money back out of the business. That could be you also, there’s a lot of different reasons why a person gets to the point where they can’t stand their business, it’s not providing what they wanted it to provide.
It’s not going they don’t see it going in a direction that it will ever do that. But what if it could?
Is my question, what if you could take the business you have at least build it up to a point to where it could be sold to someone that could that can do a better job with it, or can have more of a love for the business or where can go from here.
Maybe someone’s already in the industry that you can sell it to that they can add it to what they already have, their their portfolio that they already have going.
You know, there’s a lot of different options on the ground, besides just closing it up or continuing to allow it to wreck your life. Because it is it’s hurting you. And just you being self sacrificial may not be the only option necessary and it probably isn’t necessary at all, you could probably get around that. What you have to do is step back and take a look at all the options.
It’s tough to have that conversation with your employees, it’s tough to have that conversation with anybody that’s not a business owner that doesn’t understand the headaches, the hassle, everything that it took to get to where you’re at.
You don’t just want to flush it down the toilet, you want to make sure that it moves on from here and becomes what it can be.
So I’m going to offer my services if you’d like to be able to talk to me, I’d love to be able to talk with you.
One thing that I’m I’m having all my clients do ahead of time is at least download my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. It’s not a long book, and you don’t have to read it cover to cover.
But I do insist that you go through that first at least be able to skim through and look at what I help people to be able to do with their businesses. It’s a great example.
It’s not just held to these nine ways, but these nine ways give you an idea of the type of scope that I’m looking at doing and hopefully something that I can help you out with your business. So go check out my free go get your own free copy.
Go buy a buy if you want a hard bound version, but you over on Amazon.com but you could get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. So, stop being scared of the creature that you created.
Let’s see if we come to some closure or at least you can start living your life again. Go to AmazonProofBook.com and connect with me through those pages because in that book, it will tell you the best way to get in touch with me.
So we’ll be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, you get out there and let the magic happen.