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What If You Could Have It All: Business Growth & Lifestyle Freedom?

Now is your time to reclaim your freedom and say goodbye to being sucked back into the day-to-day. Now is your time to enjoy more stability in your business with a concrete plan in place to fund retirement.

As consulting business leaders, we pour our hearts and souls into our companies. Years of missed family events, late nights away from loved ones, stress, and often neglecting our own health and hobbies – all sacrifices made to build a successful company. But at what point do these sacrifices stop being worth it?

The truth is that many agency CEOs find themselves trapped in their own success. The business they’ve created to provide freedom has become a ball and chain, demanding more and more of their time and energy as it grows.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

What If You Could Have It All?

What could be possible if you created what you actually want as if you couldn’t fail? What if you could have a dramatic increase in growth AND lifestyle freedom?

You can have both, but you’ll need to embody INTENSE courage, commit to the process, and focus on your vision. Especially on the days when it feels like it’s not working – it takes time to turn the ship.

Those who don’t take this leap continue to be the bottleneck to growth, with endless decisions and responsibilities piling up on their desks.

Will this be your life? How many more years will you allow your business to be all-consuming while your family silently resents your lack of full presence in their lives?

A Real-World Transformation

Mark’s story demonstrates how transformative this approach can be. His firm was already world-class in the small banking and credit union industry as the leading branding and marketing expert.

But when we connected with Mark, he’d packed so much into each day that he was about to fall over. His business would bring in sales, but they were smaller projects that created inconsistent cash flow, requiring more of Mark’s personal involvement. He was booked solid and wanted more team-led growth. But, unfortunately, clients always wanted him.

Mark wanted long-term commitments from clients so that he didn’t have to personally upsell clients each time. This would also give him certainty to invest in more growth.

Right as the pandemic hit, small banks freaked out and slowed investments. When we put together his Irresistible Offer for a $100k package, Mark was nervous that clients wouldn’t buy it. Mark put faith in the proven process and went from selling mostly $10,000 to $30,000 projects to selling $100,000 to $120,000+ growth programs.

His visual Client Success Map acts as a powerful sales tool that makes selling so much easier. It’s the foundation for all their marketing and has enabled them to increase fees by 600%.

Mark found that clients liked seeing the bigger picture and wanted more certainty. While his clients were cutting budgets everywhere else, they more than tripled their investment with Mark’s firm because they now had a vision of an elevated growth path with outcomes that they eagerly desired.

Mark has dramatically cut the amount of time he spends on each client engagement. Longer engagements were the key that increased cash to scale and unlocked more growth for the business and freedom for Mark.

The Path Forward

The journey to becoming a Hands-Off CEO starts with these key foundations:

  1. Find Time NOW: Free up 10 hours weekly to invest in strategic growth.
  2. Create an Irresistible Offer: Command 50-600% higher fees that reflect your true value.
  3. Build Operations Leadership: Empower others to manage day-to-day business operations.
  4. Clone Your Expertise: Develop systems to scale your knowledge across your team.
  5. Delegate Sales: Create a process for others to sell your premium services.

Most CEOs know they’re missing out on big opportunities due to limited bandwidth. The pressure to deliver can be overwhelming, and the fear of quality slipping becomes paralyzing.

How much growth would be possible if your team could deliver excellent results without your involvement? If you could double growth while working less, how might you approach your business differently?

Do not fall for the lie that “no one can do it as well as I can.” With the right focus, systems, and leadership development, you can build a business that serves you rather than consumes you.

The only question that remains is: Who are you willing to become to create the business and life that you desire?

On March 18th, I’m hosting a live workshop where I’ll break down this exact process and show you how to:

  • BUILD WEBSITES FULL of breathtaking case studies (without waiting for “perfect” clients)
  • INSPIRE CLIENTS TO UNLOCK bigger budgets they didn’t know they had
  • GENERATE EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS even when initial project scopes seem limited
  • PROVE THEIR VALUE in ways that make premium pricing the obvious choice

The investment? Just 100 bucks.

AND! We have good news. So many people have requested a live recording, in case they can’t attend the workshop, that we decided to give you this opportunity.

Everyone who would LOVE to join us, but can’t be present, can sign up for the Quantum Leap Method Live Workshop, and will receive a LIVE Recording. Only for 100 dollars.

Only 30 spots available, and we’re filling up real fast.

Register here: handsoffceo.com/workshop

This workshop isn’t for everyone. If you’re comfortable with your current pricing and enjoy giving away your expertise for free, please don’t register.

But if you’re ready to be compensated properly for the value you deliver, I’ll see you there.

APPLY NOW

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Mandi Ellefson

Mandi Ellefson

Mandi Ellefson helps service businesses with the tricky task of becoming scalable. Her passion is helping freedom seeking entrepreneurs scale the better way– for success in their business and in the rest of their life. Out of a decade+ experience and testing as a business manager, and then building and selling a design business, Mandi has created a system that is responsible for generating tens of thousands of dollars of new revenue for businesses she's worked with.

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