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Fix This Next
- Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, Clockwork, and The Pumpkin Plan, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur.
The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent—but there's no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things.
Fortunately, Mike Michalowicz has a simple system to help you eradicate these frustrations and get your business moving forward, fast. Mike himself has lived through the struggles and countless distractions of entrepreneurship, and devoted years to finding a simple way to pinpoint exactly where to direct attention for rapid growth. He figured out that every business has a hierarchy of needs, and if you can understand where you are in that hierarchy, you can identify what needs immediate attention. Simply fix that one thing next, and your business will naturally and effortlessly level-up.
Over the past decade, Mike has developed an ardent following for his funny, honest, and actionable insights told through the stories of real entrepreneurs. Now, Fix This Next offers a simple, unique, and wildly powerful business compass that has already helped hundreds of companies get to the next level, and will do the same for you. Immediately.
Includes exclusive author commentary throughout the audiobook and a bonus author interview at the end of the program.
What the critics say
"As a fellow business author, I rarely read anything in my own genre—but I make an exception for every one of Mike's books. I always go away feeling educated, challenged, and fired up to make improvements in my business. (I'm still not going to wear a vest, though.)" (Chris Guillebeau, author of The Money Tree and Side Hustle)
"Mike is a genius." (Don Miller, author of Building a Story Brand)
"Similar to the human body, a business has specific needs for it to grow healthily. Fix This Next explains the make-up of your business and how to pinpoint where its health it compromised." (JJ Virgin, author of The Virgin Diet)
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- Sarah
- 2022-09-11
Very good!
Compared to Mikes other books I found this concept a little more difficult. And maybe I should have got it in print. It’s helpful but because we are all on different steps of the hierarchy there were lots of different examples. I feel like Mike could write a book on each different step and there would be tons to say. Excellent read but maybe not as specific and practical as his other books.
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- Sheila
- 2022-01-01
Great "book", so easy to listen to!
I have to be honest - I bought the hardcover version of this book several months ago, and I've only picked it up to dust it off and move it to a more conspicuous place! I decided to try Audible over Christmas holidays, and listen to this instead.
As a busy professional, listening took much less time than reading.
Mike has a way of presenting and summarizing key points that I've not found with other books, making it easier on my ADD brain. There are many fresh perspectives presented in this book.
Learn while you drive, exercise, etc - you won't regret buying this audiobook.
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- David
- 2021-06-25
wow. well written, no fluff
wow. well written, no fluff, just good applicable stuff, well narrated by the author. I discovered a type of author I like
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-17
Great resource to identify major issues
I really enjoyed this book and find the concept of The Business Hierarchy of Needs interesting and valuable. A great tool to determine what issue in your business you need to fix next!
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- Client Amazon
- 2020-06-07
The Swiss tool every entrepreneur needs
Mike has published another great book to help entrepreneurs identify their most acute problem in their business : the hierarchy of needs of business, efficient and simple analysis tool to nail it and achieve your next success !
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- Andy Buyting
- 2020-06-03
Great framework for business growth
Loved this book! Mike makes it fun to learn new business concepts. Fix This Next is one of the best business books I've read in a long time!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-09-17
Business Bible
As someone who values the Bible as a source of wisdom, energy and life; my description of Fix This Next is high praise. MM and the Profit 1st system have revolutionized my contracting business All Star Painting from struggling paycheck to paycheck to a profitable, well respected service provider in Bismarck ND. For me personally, from a lonely,
daily-grind drudgery, to an exciting and collaborative game.
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- Jenny
- 2020-08-08
Recommend getting the physical book on this one
I love listening to Mikes books because his narrating is so great, but this one covers too much to do it vocally with no handy aid and figuring out how to download the printables was harder for this book than the others.
I didn't feel like rewinding to find the correct URL and it's not stored in Mikes normal free resource list and the questions asked at fixthisnext.com turned me off.
Overall the framework seems solid (although it was hard to really do the assessment using audible). But I didn't gain a ton of insight since I have a framework of my own I use for myself and my clients.
That being said, if you don't have a framework and want to use one from a well established expert, give this one a try. It won't take you long and if you learn great things you didn't know before it's well worth it! And actually you don't even need to read the book, you can just do the assessment.
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- Anonymous Customer
- 2020-05-11
The Hub Book
I've been waiting a long time for this to come out. Finally it's here. Great idea. Great book. The website evaluation is essential.
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- AJ B.
- 2020-08-13
Read this first!
This is the mike michalowicz book you should read first. It's the foundation which all of his other work is built.
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- chris
- 2020-05-21
Another great one
I always look forward to reading a Mike Michalowicz book. This one is great at tying together his systems like clockwork and profit first.
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- Tim Havens
- 2020-05-02
Another great tool Mike
Always looking for quality business development improvements and tools. There is allot of junk out there, typically I rate quality by whether I will buy the hardback for my library. All of Mike's are on the self and looks like I'm ordering this one to.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-02-07
Promoting his books…
At list in the beginnings, he just talks about he’s books, shamelessly pushing. It’s distasteful. Like there is no other authors in the world.
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- Mike
- 2020-09-17
Great practical advice - well presented
Great structure. loved the OMEN at end of each chapter
the BHM is simple yet smart
happy to recommend
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- Andrew
- 2020-07-17
Actionable
Love his books. Actions you can take NOW to get stuff done! This book guides you to his other books for greater how to
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- antonio smith
- 2020-06-24
Good Listen
This was not one of my favorite books by Mike Michalowicz but I can totally see the extreme value. One thing I did love about this book was how much Profit First was talked about. I highly recommend this book to every entrepreneur and business owner.
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