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Profit Lever Optimizer

There are four ways to increase profit without taking on more clients or working more hours: pricing, efficiency, client value, and cutting low-margin work. Most owners guess at which one matters — and pick wrong. Answer the questions below and this tool rates all four levers for your business, puts a dollar figure on each, and hands you a 30-day plan for the one that moves the needle most.

Business basics

A typical month is fine — don't average your best one.

Your best guess works. If you ran the Profit Margin Check in Step 1, use that number.

Anyone you've billed in the last 90 days.

Go with your instinct — the report will tell you whether the numbers agree.

Lever 1 — Pricing

An across-the-board raise — bumping one client's rate doesn't count.

Most owners answer "matched competitors" — and that's usually where the money is hiding.

"Rarely" isn't a badge of honor — it's often a sign you're underpriced.

Whatever you'd tell a coach — "haven't touched retainer rates since 2022" is exactly the kind of thing.

Lever 2 — Efficiency

The test: could a new hire run a job from your docs alone? If not, pick "Partially."

Scheduling, invoicing, chasing paperwork — the hours a $25/hr hire could take off your plate.

The one that eats the most hours for every dollar it brings in.

Lever 3 — Client value

Rough is fine — is it closer to 10% or 60%?

Money that arrives on a schedule, without a new sale every time.

Think annual re-tests, maintenance checks, seasonal service — things they only remember when something breaks.

Lever 4 — Low-profit work

The jobs you sigh at when they come in — name them.

If you've never compared job margins, "No idea" is the honest answer — and a finding in itself.

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