Assessment Pricing: How to Set Your Diagnostic Fee
Assessment pricing is a quality signal. Set it with a three tier ladder and the one third test so buyers read your diagnostic as serious and worth paying for.
LIRE ▸Consulting Income Ceiling: Why Better Craft Will Not Grow It
Consulting income ceiling explained: revenue is time times rate and hours are capped. Why craft alone fails and how to replace the formula with one that scales.
LIRE ▸Service Business Valuation Multiples From 1x to 15x
Service business valuation multiples run from 1x to 15x revenue. See what changes at every stage, from a job to a system that outearns the founder who built it.
LIRE ▸Revenue per Employee: When Hiring Subtracts Capacity
Revenue per employee tells you if hires create leverage or management work. See why it often falls after the fifth hire and which three hires are worth making.
LIRE ▸Company of One: Why Growth by Default Is Not a Strategy
Company of One lessons for service founders: growth is a decision, not a law. Learn the readiness audit and why restraint is how fast growers got fast.
LIRE ▸LTV CAC Ratio: Is Your Service Business Growth Paying Off
LTV CAC ratio for service founders: divide client lifetime value by the cost of winning them. Find your number, read it and move it. Benchmark: 3 to 1 floor.
LIRE ▸Service Business Due Diligence: The Eight Question Audit
Service business due diligence in eight questions: is the service an asset or you, how the money behaves, and how growth works. Score yourself first, today.
LIRE ▸Systemize a Service Business So the System Is the Asset
Systemize a service business and the value moves from your head to a process anyone can run. Run the calendar audit and see the multiple you leave on the table.
LIRE ▸Is My Business Sellable? Pass the Buyer Mirror Test
Is my business sellable? Walk through what a buyer inspects: contracts, pipeline, processes and your calendar. Then fix the gaps even if you never sell.
LIRE ▸Proprietary Methodology: The Five Moves Behind EOS and SAFe
Proprietary methodology lessons from EOS, SAFe, StrengthsFinder and 7 Habits: five moves that turn personal expertise into a business that outlives its founder.
LIRE ▸First Year Business Plan: Work Backwards From Month 12
First year business plan the reverse way: define the Month 12 verdict, then set the checkpoints that make it inevitable. Four stages and one scoreboard.
LIRE ▸Business Owner Salary: How Much to Pay Yourself
Business owner salary in three phases: a survival budget, a fixed share of recurring revenue, then market rate pay plus distributions. The math for founders.
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