Through the Recruiting and Leadership Modules alone I was able to increase my business in the first twelve months from $36 million to over $57 million in sales in my real-estate business. I’m now in the process of applying the principles to my building company and anticipate great success.

Creating a positioning statement and USP from the E-Myth’s Marketing Module we have improved our revenues 4 times over last years. These two elements are primarily responsible for this improvement.

We ran an ad for help wanted earlier in the year and got 8 responses. With the help from the E-Myth ideas the next ad we ran generated over 100 responses. We were overwhelmed!

Using the Key Frustration Process in the Leadership Module, we designed estimating systems for every facet of our business. We are now consistently generating an additional $1000 in profit on each job due to the creation of this system. We have no idea how much this will mean to us in the future.

At the point that I started the e-myth program, the business wasn’t giving me what ”At the point that I started the e-myth program, the business wasn’t giving me what I wanted for my life and I was feeling frustrated and discouraged to the point of abandoning the business. During our work so far, I think that I’ve gained a better, healthier perspective on my company and I’ve also gained an encouraging coach and mentor in Doug. I’ve told others that this has: - Helped me take a step back and evaluate & plan & measure - Has already helped me free up from some duties - and more to come! - We're more profitable - My marriage is better (yes, I actually tell them that) I can now see us reaching our goals much sooner and more simply that we could have ever done on our own, in fact we almost reached our personal income goal in our first year with the E-Myth Mastery Program. Owning a company can be a lonely thing. Working with Doug has made it more of a journey with a lot of little stops for contemplation along the way. I can honestly state that I wouldn’t have stayed in our business without this program.

We’ve seen a startling improvement in the efficiency of our repair process. Since May to November of this year our repair time has improved 300%, from and average of six days to two, simply by quantifying and documenting our systems through the Key Frustration Process and System Design and Documentation the E-Myth Mastery Program provided. We’ve based our entire competitive differentiation on this advantage since in our industry the normal turnaround on repairs can be from 14 to 28 days. Our Unique Selling Proposition is now, ‘Five day repair, the right way, right away!’

I was gone last week skiing in Keystone, Colorado and I was more relaxed than I’ve ever been. Knowing my staff is accepting responsibility is a great relief. They are actually creating and building the systems for our business and beginning to see the benefits for themselves and the necessity of having them.

When I see the time I‘ve been wasting it is shocking. I should have done this (daily time logs) 10, no 20 years ago. My wife has seen the difference in me and in my practice and the morale of our employees. It’s really working!

Even though I am not nearly as involved as Marcella in the E-Myth training, I just wanted to let you know that everything we have learned has been beneficial beyond explanation. I can't imagine where our business would be without learning and doing what this program teaches.

Through the Key Frustration Process we developed a tune up special, that before took my technicians 30-45 minutes. We’ve effectively reduced it to a consistent 15-minute operation, done by a 16 year old. To say I’m excited by the realization of what this can mean to the rest of my business would be a vast understatement.

The hardware store seems to be sustaining an upward trend in sales. We have shown increases over the previous year’s sales for the last 6 months and 7 out of the last 9. February and March 2004 beat February and March 2003 and 2002. Oct . +12.9% Nov. +25.2% Dec. +8.8% Jan. +7.3% Feb. +39.9% Mar. 14.7% Apr. + 47% so far I will add this that if this process is intended to have my store run without me than I believe I have accomplished that…. I am really feeling pretty good about things.

Just an observation to share: since working on our budget and talking about money and trying to find our bottom line. We have NOT been short for payroll in 1.5 months, and the next 3 pay periods (1.5 months) are looking GREAT!!!! (And that even includes paying $15,000 one time cost for construction we had done back in August!!) It has helped us so much to tackle the vague perceptions we had and start learning how to monitor our money. I expect this new phenomena to continue and get us AHEAD even for our next school year. Really, this module has changed our lives and helped us foresee a bright, long future in this business.

Hey DOUG….last night I spent an hour reviewing ALL your emails since the first---11/12/03…. My first impression was how fortunate I am (and Hoeschler & Co.) to have a consultant like YOU to work with. I have benefited greatly by your wise counsel & your experience & resources…I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT I DEEM MY CONSULTING FEES WITH YOU AS THE BEST INVESTMENT OF DOLLARS SINCE 1981, WHEN I STARTED THE FIRM….YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

In November 2005, Ideal had its best month ever! In fact, Ideal beat its next closest month by 46%. That’s a huge difference and the truth is that Ideal had a great 2005. And this winter looks to be our busiest ever. I do know how much you and the E-Myth concepts have helped us and greatly appreciate that. It’s been pretty crazy around here. Had our annual sales meeting last week. We did record bookings and record revenue for 2005. Thanks for the help.

The spark is back! Now I’m working on things I did not know how to before! Now my staff is also more energized because rather than just coming and doing it, doing it, and doing it, they are actually asking how can we do it better and coming up with the answers.