How To Give Yourself a Promotion
Give Yourself a Promotion (Owner → CEO in 180 Days)
No one is going to promote you—your calendar will. This episode gives founders a concrete plan to move from operator to CEO by shifting time into higher-value work. We start with your Effective Hourly Rate (EHR)—your real earnings per hour worked. Quick calc: (Owner’s Pay + Distributions + Legit Perks + Retirement) ÷ Total Hours Worked. If your EHR looks like frontline pay, it’s because you’re doing frontline tasks.
You’ll learn how to buy back time—hire the most leverageable, least-expensive help first (cleaner → VA/admin → bookkeeping → fulfillment help → sales support), and capture tasks with the 10-Minute SOP (one short screen recording + a 5-step checklist). Then we climb the Value Ladder: $10–$25/hr tasks (cleaning/data entry) → $25–$50 (admin/CS) → $50–$80 (fulfillment) → $100–$500+ (sales/offers/hiring) → $1k–$10k+ (partnerships, capital, new markets).
Finally, a 180-day promotion plan:
- Days 0–30: audit time, free 10 hrs/week, install a daily CEO Power Hour.
- Days 31–90: become a manager—scorecards, cadence, a team lead.
- Days 91–180: act like an owner—replace yourself in fulfillment, add referral partners, raise EHR toward $150–$200+/hr.
Daily rule: do one thing to grow the business before anything else.
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