Ryan DeissCo-Founder & CEO, The Scalable Company

4 Signs Your Business is Out of Control #Shorts

11 Oct 2021 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ryan Deiss. This content was uploaded by Ryan Deiss. This is a YouTube short titled "4 Signs Your Business is Out of Control #Shorts" (created 2021-10-11). The clip features a single narrator who lists warning signs that a business is spiraling out of control—chaotic work, constant firefighting, team members needing micromanagement, last-minute status surprises, eroding profit margins from project bloat or poor pricing, and a lack of ownership for fixes—and directs viewers to other videos on the channel for help. Single-speaker, short-form business advice content.

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Here are some signs that your business is spiraling out of control without you even knowing it. Work is chaotic and nothing important ever seems to get done except those things that are on fire. Team members need to be constantly told what to do, including the ones who should know better. I mean, if you're getting constantly pinged with questions like what's the subject line of this email supposed to be? Or worse, you're having to ask last minute about the status of an important project or campaign might be a problem. Profits are lower than they should be, even on higher sales. Look, poor margins are an indicator that someone on the team hasn't been paying adequate attention to project bloat, or they haven't been doing competitive benchmarking for your pricing. Finally, no one seems to have any idea how to fix anything in your business. Maybe you have this nagging sense that things are out of control, but you can't quite articulate a path forward. If you can't define your problems, you certainly can't fix them. If any of these challenges sound familiar to you, be sure to check out some of the other videos that we have on our channel.