Kit Barber explains why small business revenue often depends entirely on the owner's presence. He suggests a simple audit: write down every task only you can do each day. By week's end, you'll see exactly which processes need to run without you.
A successful business owner doesn't have to be there every day for the business to make money, but most are, and it's costing them. If your sales slow the moment that you step back, it's not a people problem, it's just a structure problem. You're not running the business, you are the business. And when the system takes a break, the revenue goes with it. So this is where to start. This week, every time you catch yourself thinking, if I don't do this, it won't get done, write it down. Write all of it down. By Friday, that list shows you exactly where your business still depends on you and exactly where it doesn't need to. That's your starting point.
