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How Small Businesses Can Beat Big Businesses

Name: How Small Businesses Can Beat Big Businesses
Uploaded: 2024-08-13T01:30:22+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker explains that the perceived disadvantage of being a beginner entrepreneur is offset by a natural business cycle: large…

13 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains that the perceived disadvantage of being a beginner entrepreneur is offset by a natural business cycle: large, established firms eventually lose the advantages that made them successful, creating space for agile newcomers. Small businesses benefit from a lack of scale, allowing them to offer highly personalized attention, rapid responsiveness, and direct, high‑margin pricing because they avoid layers of management. The speaker emphasizes a commitment to work intensely for each client, positioning personal investment and risk‑sharing as key differentiators that enable small firms to compete effectively against larger incumbents.

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Every beginner thinks that they have a disadvantage, but there's a cycle in businesses. Like there's only one business in the S&P 500 that has been here 100 years. As much as we like to think of these behemoths as these big things, it's like there's disadvantages to being large. That's why there's this constant cycle of new up-and-comers who swell and get bigger and bigger, and then they forget what made them good, and then they, they go. It's a cycle more than it is linear. And so when you are a beginner, you have the advantage of no scale, which makes it really compelling. And saying, I will give you personalized attention. Like if you're competing against an established person, you say, hey, you're just a number to them. You're personal to me. I'll give you my cell. I want to get amazing results for people. I would like to do it for free. You're still gonna obviously incur the risk of me not knowing what I'm doing, but I'm trying to decrease the risk as much as I can. And I promise you that I'm gonna work as hard as humanly possible 'cause I have no other client. I'm just so invested in making this win because if you don't win, I'll never win. And if there's ever a problem, I'll be there. And you can obviously run better margins than they can because you don't have all the layers of management in between. And so everything that you charge goes straight into your pocket. So you run the most efficient business model ever.