Business Growth

Triple Your Profit By
Targeting A Better
Audience (Here's How)

The secret to scaling your company isn't more sales or a larger customer base. If you want to triple your profit, create more impact, and generate more income for yourself, you need to start with targeting a better audience.

In this episode, Chris explains how you can find the industry that will get more value from your offer and has the funds to pay for it.

You'll hear the questions you need to ask and the research you need to do if you're ready to stop losing time by focusing on the wrong industry.

This is step one for all high growth entrepreneurs, so don't miss this one.

The very first step in business is always finding out what industry is going to pay you the most for whatever your strength is.

In this Episode

  • Are you trying to scale your business the wrong way?
  • The very first step to creating a company that's built to grow
  • How Chris made one shift in his first business that permanently changed his growth trajectory
  • What high growth entrepreneurs do before focusing on their product or service
  • Do you want to create more income and impact? Ask yourself these questions to find the right industry for your company

Most entrepreneurs put all their focus on selling a product or service, and they keep looking for more ways to sell more.

They want more customers, or they want to sell more widgets to each one of their customers, or they want to charge more. And that's all great, but the problem with that model is that they're trying to go to step two in scaling their company without doing step one first.

It's kind of like when you were born, if you were given this personalized manual that told you exactly how to grow up into the best person you could be, the richest, the most successful, the most loved, the most healthy, the most happy and all you had to do was follow these three simple steps that that manual laid out.

But a hundred years later, when you're on your deathbed and you're scared of dying because maybe you still haven't reached the most important goals in your life and why haven't you reached them?

Because maybe you still haven't read that book, but you watch so many other people become mega successful in their lives at an early age. Why?

The Very First Step

Because they read the book and they just simply follow those three steps. Well, in business it's kind of the same thing. The very first step is always and this is super important, so listen, the very first step in business is always finding out what industry is going to pay you the most for whatever your strength is.

Businesses that skip this step are fighting for the scraps left behind by those who took a moment, literally a moment, and they studied the various industries out there and they found the one that truly needed their service and could pay the most for it.

I had this talk with my son maybe a few months ago. He's in high school and he's thinking about what he wants to do in his life. He knows that he wants to make enough money so he doesn't have to struggle and he wants to be happy and he wants to live this healthy lifestyle.

Finding the Better Audience

So it was a great conversation that we had. But we talked about it and we talked about what his strengths are and what different industries might pay for those strengths. You know, one industry might pay 40 thousand dollars a year to start and another might pay a hundred and forty or more to start.

It's the same business. Now, when I started my first company, I thought I could just make money doing what I love to do. You know, some people's first business might be cutting grass or maybe carrying people's bags at the golf course, whatever it is.

Mine was being a personal trainer because I loved being in the gym and I struggled to make more than a few hundred bucks a week because I was fighting for the scraps that other personal trainers at the gym were leaving behind.

The Single Shift That Made The Difference

Then I sat there, I thought about this and I remember the day that I made this shift in my life. I focused all of my attention on training the day traders and the stockbrokers on Wall Street. Same service aimed at the better audience who could pay more for what I had to offer.

And I made a little bit more money, a lot more money. In fact, that single shift put me in a position where I had the opportunity to build this personal training company and the challenge was actually keeping up with the demand.

It actually grew to almost 150 personal trainers on the East Coast, and that turned into a chain of health clubs, which turned into a series of books and a TV show that literally helped millions of people.

The same systems, the same amount of work, but one's a six-figure path and one's an eight-figure path. Now, I still know several of those trainers who were way ahead of me back then, and they're still training a handful of people a day in the gym, which is great if that's what excites you and makes you happy and juices and jazzes you.

Aiming Your Engine to the Better Audience

But since then, I've gone on to build successful companies in a variety of different industries. Now, most entrepreneurs put all their focus on selling a product or service but high growth entrepreneurs, high growth businesses know that before they do that, they need to aim their engine. They need to aim their company in the right direction.

You need to aim your focus at the better audience that has enough discretionary money to pay the most and get the most value from whatever your company delivers.

Now we all want to grow. That's part of what makes building businesses exciting, right? But most companies fight for small growth when there's a far bigger way to play this game, a way that helps you to help a lot more people. A way that helps you grow bigger and happier teams. A way that helps you have a bigger impact on the world and generate a lot more revenue along the way.

So, think about this for a second: what's one change in who you aim your message at that can help your company 10, 20, 100 times your growth? One simple change of who you aim your message at. Think about that for a second. What industry might pay you more and could use your services more? What industry is looking for what you have to offer and willing to just give you what you truly deserve?

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked
Questions

How do you grow revenue faster without adding more products or running more promotions?

Aim your existing offer at a better audience. Most companies fight for scraps competing in the wrong market when a different industry would pay significantly more for the same service. Before adding products or doubling ad spend, ask which industry values what you do most and has the budget to pay for it. That one shift in who you target can move you from a six-figure path to an eight-figure path with the same work.

What is the very first step in building a company that grows fast?

Find out what industry will pay you the most for your strength. Not what product to sell. Not what marketing channel to use. Which audience gets the most value from what you already do and has the discretionary income to pay for it. Businesses that skip this step compete for the leftover market. Businesses that take a moment to study the options find the one that multiplies their results without multiplying their effort.

How do you know if you are targeting the wrong audience in your business?

If you keep working the same system with the same effort and growth stays flat or unpredictable, the audience is likely the problem. You may be fighting for clients who can't afford a premium, don't value what you bring, or are already over-served by competitors. The fix isn't working harder. It's asking which industry actually needs what you have and is willing to pay what it's worth.

Can the same service aimed at a different audience really grow revenue faster?

Yes, and the difference is often dramatic. The same personal training service aimed at people in a gym fighting for small commissions versus aimed at day traders on Wall Street who could afford premium rates produced a completely different business. Same skills, same service, same effort. One is a six-figure career. The other became a company of nearly 150 trainers, a chain of health clubs, books, and a television show reaching millions.

How do you find the better audience that will pay more for what your company offers?

Start by mapping your core strength, then list three to five industries that could use that strength. Research which ones have the most discretionary spending and the least competition for what you specifically bring. Ask what industry is looking for what you have and willing to give you what you truly deserve. You are looking for an audience with enough money to pay the most and enough need to value it most.

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