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You Can’t Sell a Job — Only a Business

7 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Speaker A probes the challenges of owner dependence in small businesses, contrasting the notion of building a personal job with building a sellable business. He references well‑known business literature such as The E‑Myth and Working on Your Business, Not in It, and asks how business owners typically react when advisors suggest shifting from a job‑centric model to a scalable, owner‑independent business. The question seeks to uncover whether owners are shocked by the idea, already aware of the need, or willing to embrace the transformation.

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So those are— there's some big, big challenges there. And I'm curious, you know, let's tackle a couple of them, you know, sort of. Yeah. So that owner dependence, you know, building a job instead of building a business, something that's been talked about in the literature, like, you know, certainly lots of books, you know, Working on Your Business Instead of in It, The E-Myth, and all of those things have been around for a while. I'm curious, you know, as you work with a business owner and say, you know, it's going to be very hard to sell a job, but we can turn it into a business. What sort of, you know, how do they respond to that? Is it sort of a shock to people as much as— or is it more that they have an understanding that they should have been doing this all along and now they're willing to, to tap into it. I'm just sort of curious what you run into.