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Client Story: The "Grow Last" Strategy That Created $107K Monthly Profits


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What if the secret to massive food business profits isn't growing revenue first? Sarah reveals a counterintuitive "grow last" strategy that transformed a seasonal business from $19K to $107K monthly profits in just two years.

This client's 14% gross profit margins were a ticking time bomb – every new sale was actually creating bigger losses. But instead of the typical "sell more" advice, Sarah implemented a radical two-year approach that flipped conventional growth wisdom upside down.

Year 1 Strategy: Fix everything inside the business first. Sarah walks through the unsexy but profit-generating work that most founders skip. Revenue stayed flat while profits more than doubled – proving the model worked before scaling.

Year 2 Strategy: Revenue growth. But rather than finding new customers or opening a new locations, the goal was to maximize customer value.

Tune in as Sarah breaks down her profit assessment process and all the details of the financial and operations strategy that resulted in 5X profit growth.

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