Efficient but utterly miserable?

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Perry Marshall: Live! Southern California on June 12 Register Here Mel, In his insightful book “Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense” Rory Sutherland points out… Something clearly went wrong with food in both Britain and America between the 1950s and the 1980s. It came to be considered to be more about convenience than pleasure. It seems astonishing now, but the predictions of the future I read as a child assumed that meals would be replaced by parcels of nutrients consumed in handy tablet form. It was for some reason thought that the purpose of food was to provide the necessary minerals, vitamins, protein and energy, and that the job of the food industry was to supply them in as efficient a form as possible. Some forward thinking people had defined food's function narrowly, in order to create a rational model of what the food industry should do. In this focus on scale and efficiency, people lost sight of what food is for. While it is, of course, a form of nourishment, it also serves a host of other ends. The proponents of delivering food in pill form had lost sight of the fact that it is enjoyable to eat, and a necessary prop at social occasions. Even if such pills could be produced, it is perfectly plausible that people who ate only such food would be utterly miserable. This is always the siren song of automation and efficiency.  It happens with every leap in automation. The Industrial Revolution: "We can replace craftsmen with machines!" The Internet: "We can replace in-person thingies with online thingies!" AI: "We can replace…EVERYTHING…with ChatGPT." Each time, there's a temptation to overreach.  To eliminate things for the sake of elimination. But the most valuable things are always the ones that cannot be replaced. The craftsman's eye. The handshake. The succulent meal. The magic of live performances. The brainstorming breakthroughs that never happen on Zooms and webinars.   Business education went through the same transformation. Webinars have become the food pill. You can consume information in your pajamas. Scalable. Efficient. But live events can never be replaced.  The breakthrough during someone else's hotseat. The partnership formed at lunch. The confidence from being in a room with sharp people who get it. The sheer human enjoyment of eating, drinking and telling stories together.  The unpredictably productive stuff that ALWAYS happens at great live events.  Strip that away and we might learn some things…but we’d be utterly miserable. As AI automates everything else, the truly human experiences become MORE valuable, not less.  Join us at the next truly human experience… Upcoming Perry Marshall Live Events: Wednesday, June 3, 2026  – London, England Friday, June 12, 2026 – Pasadena, CA Thursday, July 23, 2026 – Boston, MA Wednesday, September 9, 2026 – Greater Chicagoland Area  [Reserve Your Spot Now] Get my best answer to your most pressing business challenge – guaranteed. Seize the year, Perry   ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States

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Three questions your business must answer

These are not hypotheticals, they are filters

Mel, At my Intervention Seminar, I asked every business owner in the room three questions. I want to give them to you now, because they're the fastest way I know to show someone where they actually stand. Can a smart teenager get 80% of what you do from ChatGPT? If yes, that's a serious problem. Not someday, now.  If your value is in information or general advice that a good AI can approximate for free, your moat is already draining. Is your revenue tied to result, or to hours worked? Result is the right answer.  Hours is a billing model that AI is dismantling from both ends. Clients increasingly resist paying for time, and AI keeps compressing how much time things actually take.  If your revenue is tied to hours, you're exposed in a way that's going to become more obvious, not less. Can a $100 million company staff your niche? If a large, well-capitalized competitor decided to enter your space tomorrow and throw serious resources at it, is there anything stopping them?  If the answer is no, you don't have a business.  You have a position that someone bigger could take from you whenever it becomes worth their while. These aren't hypotheticals.  They're filters.  Every business in the room at my seminar had to run themselves through all three. If you have a 7-figure business, and answered any of them with hesitation, Advanced Mastery Network is worth a serious look.  This is exactly the kind of diagnostic thinking we apply to member businesses.  Not to make you anxious about the gaps, but to help you close them before they become crises. Email Josh at josh@perrymarshall.com to see if your business qualifies for AMN. Seven-figure businesses only. Seize the day, Perry     ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States

The last quadrant standing?

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Perry Marshall: Live! Southern California on June 12 Register Here Mel, Remember my 4 work quadrants? Barnacles Work Ethic Renaissance Time Celebration  Well, 3 of them are being inhaled and consumed by AI.  The Celebration Quadrant is the only AI-proof quadrant left. If you’re not spending time there, you’re doing something AI will probably steamroll soon. If you’re not offering more elements of celebration to your customers, your competitors will probably scoop them up.  What are the elements of celebration? Analog — Must be in meat space, not cyberspace Communal — Can't celebrate alone Gastronomic — Eat, drink, be merry Artistic — Music, poetry, play, ideas Altruistic — No money motive Subversive — Makes "sensible" people ask "Why are you doing this?" First Question: What Celebration Quadrant elements can you offer your customers? Second Question: Are you putting yourself in Celebration Quadrant events… Here’s one for you to consider… Upcoming Perry Marshall Live Events: Wednesday, June 3, 2026  – London, England Friday, June 12, 2026 – SoCal, CA Thursday, July 23, 2026 – Boston, MA Wednesday, September 9, 2026 – Greater Chicagoland Area  [Reserve Your Spot Now] When you attend a Perry Marshall Live you’ll get my best answer to your most pressing business challenge – or I’ll return every penny. Seize the year, Perry   ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States

Revenue drag eliminators (7-figure webinar)

Mel, Last week, I told you about the first move Tony DeQuick made to break through his revenue plateau at Entropy Radiator Corporation — upgrading his sales team. That added significant revenue. But Tony wasn't done. His reps were generating leads. What they weren't doing was following up on all of them with any consistency. Leads were slipping through. Timing was off. Good prospects were going cold because nobody had a clear picture of what was in the pipeline. Tony built a custom CRM using AI tools.  Himself. No consultant. No expensive implementation project.  He built it, gave his reps a clear view of every lead and every open opportunity, and the leakage stopped. Same leads coming in. Better systems tracking them.  More revenue from what was already there. No more revenue drag.  Two moves.  No new marketing. There's a third move Tony made and he and Josh are covering all of it on Thursday, May 21st at 12pm Eastern. If you have a 7-figure business, this is for you.  Register Here Seize the day, Perry     ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States

Once you see it, you can’t unsee is (7-figure webinar)

Mel, Tony DeQuick had a good sales rep. Frank had been in the automotive industry his whole career and was closing $1.25 million a year for Entropy Radiator Corporation. Reliable. Experienced. The business ran. Josh Long looked at the situation and asked a simple question: is Frank getting to every lead that comes in? Not really, Tony admitted. What would happen if you added a second rep? Tony didn't know. So he tried it. Revenue jumped by $500K. But when Josh assessed the two reps side by side, something became clear.  Frank was generating more than twice the revenue from the exact same volume of leads.  The gap between what the second seat was producing and what it could produce represented serious money walking out the door every single year. Josh calls this revenue drag.  And once you see it, you can't unsee it. They made a change. The new rep added a million dollars in new revenue on top of what Frank was already doing.  The business that started at $1.25M with one rep is now pushing toward $3M. That was just the first move. Tony and Josh are walking through all of it on Thursday, May 21st at 12pm Eastern.  If you have a 7-figure business, you have revenue drag.  This is for you.  Register Here Seize the day, Perry     ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States

No thumping heart to give the crime away

No heartbeat. No confession. Just six months of lies in a desk drawer.

Mel,   In Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator kills an old man and hides the body under the floorboards.   When police arrive, he begins to hear what he thinks is the dead man’s heart thrumping louder…and louder…and the sound drives him to confess.  One of Josh Long's clients hired a bookkeeper. Didn't think much of it. Bookkeepers know how to bookkeep, right? Six months later the bookkeeper quit.  So, Josh’s client went to clean out her desk. Found bills stuffed in a drawer. Four months old. Five months old. Six months old.  Vendors hadn't been paid.  The money was sitting in the bank the whole time.  There was no cash crisis, no unusual stress, no thumping of a murdered heart to give the bookkeeper’s “crime” away.  The bookkeeper just couldn't be bothered some days and shoved things in a drawer. Josh’s client had been making decisions for six months on data she didn't know was incomplete. Josh told this story at my The Intervention Seminar to make a specific point: a bad bookkeeper isn't just a nuisance. They're a blindfold.  You think you know what's going on in your business, but you're working off corrupted information and you don't know it. Josh says it can apply to every key role… An operations coordinator who's slow to onboard clients costs you in churn you can't trace back to the real cause.  A fulfillment manager who tolerates rework costs you in refunds, callbacks, and reputation.  An office manager who lives in reaction mode costs you in owner time…yours…which is the most expensive resource in the building. None of these show up as line items. They don't appear on a P&L.  They don’t thump incessantly like the heart under the floorboards.  But they're costing you, every month, whether you can see them or not. Josh has a framework for finding these blind spots and putting a dollar figure on them.  If that sounds like a conversation worth having, email Josh at josh@perrymarshall.com.  Seven-figure business owners only. Seize the day, Perry     ***NOTE: This email address isn't monitored! If you need help, please email: support@perrymarshall.com Not interested in this topic? Click here to be removed from this email series. If you’d rather not receive *any* more emails from us, Unsubscribe Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 805 Lake Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States