Profit With A Plan

Your business can be growing, profitable, and busy while still leaving you underpaid.

• Why increasing revenue does not automatically increase your personal wealth

[04:22] Why a strong fourth quarter should not focus only on revenue

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

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Spending hours creating content without a clear return? Marcia Riner and business coach Kenneth Kollasch explore why small business owners get stretched thin, how to choose one marketing platform, and what makes messaging relevant to potential buyers. Kenneth explains the three stages of marketing: curiosity, enlightenment, and commitment. He also outlines how a StoryBrand brand script, a personalized AI knowledge base, and a 12-month calendar support his approach to creating a year’s worth of content in one month.

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• Identify the owner bottleneck before deciding what to delegate or automate.

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[04:21] Why business owners stay involved in every decision

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more—whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

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If your business keeps demanding more of your time, better productivity may not be the answer. You may need to make the right hire.

Darren Tompkins explains how owners can recognize when it is time to hire, identify the role the business actually needs, avoid panic hiring, and build a company culture that supports both performance and a better quality of life.

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[00:00] Is the wrong workload stealing your time?

[02:48] How poor recruiting inspired Darren’s company

[06:06] The workload signal that says it is time to hire

[11:23] How to identify your first key hire

[14:13] Why companies lose qualified candidates

[25:13] Building a company people enjoy working for

[30:22] What overwhelmed owners should outsource first

[33:14] Hiring, retention, and organizational assessments

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

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If you stepped away from your business, would the profits, customer relationships, and daily decisions keep moving without you? Marcia Riner talks with Nitin Khanna, founder and president of N3 Business Advisors, about why a profitable business isn’t automatically transferable. They explore owner dependence, customer concentration, management succession, and a practical time-away test that reveals what needs fixing. Whether selling is years away or you simply want more freedom, this conversation shows you where to start building a company worth keeping or selling.

Why strong profits alone don’t prove your business can transfer.

How owner dependence puts customer, supplier, and employee relationships at risk.

What buyers consider beyond your last three years of financials.

Why having a general manager doesn’t automatically mean succession is covered.

How a seven-day absence can expose the systems you need.

Why selling your business doesn’t have to mean immediate retirement.

⏱️ Timestamp Highlights

[00:32] Could your business keep running if you handed over the keys?

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more—whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit Infinite-Profit.com

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You can have the right strategy, a good offer, and years of experience and still keep building a smaller business than you actually want.

Marc Hildebrand joins Marcia Riner to explore the beliefs and automatic reactions that can quietly shape business decisions. They discuss why working harder often creates more complexity, how better questions create new possibilities, and why small tests can help business owners move through growth plateaus without forcing massive change.

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• How hidden beliefs can quietly keep your business at the same level

• Why working harder may create complexity instead of solving the problem

• How to recognize reactive thinking when pressure hits your business

• Why better questions can create business options you could not see before

• How small tests help you move forward without forcing massive change

• Why reflection and accountability matter after taking the first step

[00:00] The hidden belief behind expensive business decisions

[06:38] Why old thinking can limit your next stage of growth

[13:28] How pressure triggers automatic business decisions

[21:49] Turning a mindset shift into real business action

[25:16] Using small tests to get out of your own way

[30:33] How to recognize and break through a growth plateau

Marc Hildebrand’s 5-Part Self-Leadership Series

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit Infinite-Profit.com

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Your business can be growing while the reason behind that growth remains surprisingly unclear. And when you do not know what is actually producing your results, changing the wrong thing can quickly expose how fragile that success really is.

Joel Miller, co-founder of The Sky Floor, explains what he calls an “accidentally successful” business and how owners can identify the customers, positioning, marketing, relationships, and decisions that are really driving results. You will also hear how one company eliminated more than $100,000 in questionable marketing spending and increased leads by 40%.

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• How to recognize whether your business has become accidentally successful

• Why knowing where customers come from is not enough

• How customer feedback reveals your real competitive positioning

• What happens when you remove something that was quietly driving revenue

• Why marketing activities should be measured instead of simply maintained

• How founder-led businesses can scale without removing the founder completely

[00:00] The hidden fragility behind successful business growth

[04:12] What an accidentally successful business actually looks like

[07:46] One overlooked change that caused sales to collapse

[11:15] How customers reveal why they really choose you

[18:08] Cutting marketing spend and increasing leads by 40%

[22:16] When the founder is actually part of the positioning

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Accidentally Successful Quiz

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit InfiniteProfitConsulting.com

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Stop Chatting With AI and Start Building With It

Most businesses are already using AI.

But if your process still looks like this, open a chat, type a prompt, copy the answer, paste it somewhere else, then repeat the whole thing tomorrow, AI is still depending on you to move the work forward.

In this episode of PROFIT With A Plan, Marcia Riner talks with Alane Boyd, Co-CEO of Biggest Goal, about what happens when you move past basic AI chat and start building AI into the way your business actually operates.

Alane breaks down how Claude Cowork can connect to your files, email, project management tools, and other platforms, then use reusable skills, plug-ins, and scheduled tasks to handle repeatable work more consistently.

She also shares real examples from her own business, including automating client call follow-up, updating project systems, preparing sales information, creating CPA-ready spreadsheets, and building daily meeting briefs before her workday begins.

The big takeaway is simple: AI becomes far more valuable when it stops being another place to ask questions and starts becoming part of your workflow.

EP357 Profit With A Plan Podcast

Release date:  August 25, 2026

Guest: Alane Boyd, Co-CEO of The Biggest Goal

Host: Marcia Riner, business growth strategist, CEO of Infinite Profit®️

Alane explains that chat still relies on the user to initiate the interaction, take the output, and manually move it elsewhere, which is why she considers much of that use “micro-efficiency” rather than true operational improvement.

[03:41] Why AI chat is still only the beginning

[07:07] Moving from browser chat into Claude Cowork

[11:46] Giving AI better business context

[14:34] Connectors, skills, and repeatable workflows

[20:16] Turning weeks of manual research into a finished spreadsheet

[25:35] Security, permissions, and protecting business data

[30:36] Using scheduled AI tasks to prepare your day automatically

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When calls, follow-up, scheduling, customer communication, content, and everyday decisions keep landing on you, the business becomes harder to grow and harder to enjoy.

Andrea Palacio learned this after buying a landscaping company that began falling apart within days of closing. She shares how she rebuilt the operation with stronger processes and AI automation, and how business owners can start removing repetitive work without chasing every new tool or trying to automate everything at once.

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• Why AI cannot repair a process that is already broken

• How to choose the first business task to automate

• Why one well-used AI tool can be enough to begin

• How to train AI like a new employee

• What separates basic AI use from advanced automation

• How AI can free your team for higher-value work

[00:00] When too much of the business depends on you

[03:36] Building an e-commerce business from a sailboat

[04:56] The acquisition began falling apart within five days

[08:23] Taking responsibility and rebuilding the operation

[11:55] The first automation that reduced customer complaints

[15:16] Why broken processes should not be automated

[18:08] How to train AI for better business results

[21:10] The five levels of AI in business

[24:39] Where overwhelmed business owners should begin

[29:32] How AI changes employee productivity

[32:16] Andrea’s personalized AI business guide

Andrea’s Personalized 90-Day Game Plan

https://andreapalacio.ai/personalized-90-day-game-plan

Andrea Palacio

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit InfiniteProfitConsulting.com

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Your business may look profitable on paper, but would it still work if your most capable employee took two weeks off?

In this episode of Profit With A Plan, Marcia Riner sits down with Levi Lawrence, Managing Partner at Iron House Pro, to talk about the hidden operational debt that quietly puts founder-led companies at risk. Levi shares how undocumented knowledge, overworked key people, weak systems, and delayed infrastructure can make a business look healthier than it really is.

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• How hidden operational debt weakens profitable businesses

[00:00] Can your business work without your best person?

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Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit InfiniteProfitConsulting.com

💰 Profit Booster® Podcast Monetization Hub

Turn your interviews into a client-generating machine without adding more work to your plate.

Learn more at ProfitBoosterPod.com

📈 Free Profit Booster® Growth Map

Find the gaps slowing down your revenue, profit, and growth.

Get yours now at ProfitBooster.biz

🎧 Never Miss a Profit-Driving Strategy

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When every decision feels urgent, business owners can slip into overthinking, second-guessing, or pushing harder without getting clearer. Eugene Berezin shares how a simple executive meeting with yourself can help you slow down, listen to the different parts of your mind, and make more grounded decisions.

This conversation blends mental health, business strategy, hypnotherapy, and practical self-leadership into a tool business owners can actually use. You’ll learn how to create quiet decision-making space, use parts journaling, and stop letting fear, doubt, or mental noise run the show.

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• Why busy work can hide unclear decision-making

[00:00] Why better decisions start with quiet

Eugene’s Self-Regulation Tool

LifePath Transformational Coaching

Infinite Profit

Profit Booster® Growth Map

Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit Infinite-Profit.com

💰 Profit Booster® Podcast Monetization Hub

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🎧 Never Miss a Profit-Driving Strategy