How to Make the Shift from Business Operator to Business Owner and CEO – In Just 7 Minutes with Paul Maskill

 The systems you need so that your business can survive without you The easiest way to start delegating: know how you can make more when you start working less Tips for escaping the “this is how I’ve always done it” mindset Resources/Links:  How to Pivot When You’ve Plateaued: The 6 Mistakes You Must Avoid Before You Break Through Summary Paul Maskill is a business coach and investor focused on helping service-based business owners go from Business Operator to Business Owner & CEO. Paul's focus is on putting systems, processes, and people in place so that the business can thrive on a day-to-day basis without the owner. In this episode of Marketing the Invisible, Paul shares how to help business owners crush chaos and uncover the income and freedom they always knew was possible. Check out these episode highlights: 00:42 – Paul’s professional background as a business coach, from being a business operator to CEO 01:52 – His ideal clients: a service-based business that offers a great service who needs help in the backend 02:23 – The business chaos he help solve for his clients 02:57 –The hamster wheel feeling his clients experience when trying to solve their business chaos problems 04:44 – The common mistakes that business owners feel when they try to seek for scalability and predictability on their business 05:28 – Importance of having systems and processes in your business 06:47 – Paul’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): Get started. Get out of your own way. You're not special. Other people can do it just as well as you can if you provide them the roadmap to success. 07:16 – Paul’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): How to Pivot When You’ve Plateaued: The 6 Mistakes You Must Avoid Before You Break Through 07:12 – What's the one thing that's the most important and the highest priority when someone is stuck in this position and what can they do just to get started and get that momentum going Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Get out of your own way. You're not special. Other people can do it just as well as you can if you provide them the roadmap to success.” - @paulmaskillClick To Tweet “I help them get rid of that chaos, focus on what they really do. Which allows them to uncover the income and the freedom that they sought when they started their business” - @paulmaskillClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland:Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to another edition of marketing the Invisible. My name is Tom Poland beaming out to you once again from on the sand at Little Castaways Beach in Queensland Australia joined today by Paul Maskill. Paul, where are you hanging out. Paul Maskill:Hanging out in Raleigh North Carolina where we're hanging out in yesterday and you're hanging out in tomorrow night. Tom Poland:How could we agree I'm a man ahead of your time. Paul Maskill:You are by about 10 hours. Tom Poland:Yeah I think that's pretty much the only way. I mean a good time. But you know I'd love. Yeah I'll take that. I'll take that. Tom Poland:All right. So for those we don't know Paul,he is an interesting guy because he's got a special kind of brain. He's got the sort of brain that can look at and this is not on his bio. This is just my observation. He's got this sort of brain that looks at things strategically that can also drill down to systems and that's a unique individual because most of us can do one or the other. He's a business coach,