Notebook of a COO

This isn't another business podcast. This is for operators.Notebook of a COO delivers the systems, frameworks, and decisions that determine whether a business scales cleanly or collapses; from 15+ years of COO, CMO, and CFO experience.Weekly episodes on marketing, operations, finance, AI, and the psychology behind real business growth. No hype. No hustle culture. Just operator thinking.Start with the free assessment at notebookofacoo.com, then explore B3 courses and The Operator Academy.85% of businesses fail due to operations. We fix that.

Notebook of a COO is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 48 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Notebook of a COO, a business show with 48 episodes published.

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  You Own a Job, Not a Business

  Aug 28, 20268 min

  If your business stops the moment you stop, you do not own a business, you own a job. In this episode, JT Taylor breaks down the one test that tells you how dependent your business really is on you, and the three moves that turn a job that owns you into an asset that works whether you show up or not: the 30-day test, documenting the decision instead of the task, and the one number plus one backup that let the place run without you. Practical, no fluff, and something you can start this week. ------------ GET THE FREE SMALL BUSINESS MBA → https://notebookofacoo.com/small-business-mba.html OPERATORS LOOKING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE OF OPERATIONS → National Board of Operations Professionals - https://nationalboardofoperations.org/ SOCIAL MEDIA → The Show - https://www.instagram.com/notebookofacoo/ → NBOP - https://www.instagram.com/official.nbop/ → The Host - https://www.instagram.com/mrjttaylor/ PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE (6 book series) → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNZPGPP

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  Busy Is Not a Business Model

  Aug 26, 20269 min

  We are slammed. We are so busy. Owners say it like a badge, but busy is not a business model, and being slammed is more often a symptom than a sign of health. In this episode, JT breaks down why most of the work filling your days is motion, not progress, and the three moves to get your time back without the business falling apart: learn to tell motion from progress, kill the work that feels productive but is not, and fiercely protect the handful of hours that actually move the needle. Ends with a one-week time audit that will show you exactly where your hours are leaking. The goal was never to be busy. It was to build something that works. ------------ GET THE FREE SMALL BUSINESS MBA → https://notebookofacoo.com/small-business-mba.html OPERATORS LOOKING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE OF OPERATIONS → National Board of Operations Professionals - https://nationalboardofoperations.org/ SOCIAL MEDIA → The Show - https://www.instagram.com/notebookofacoo/ → NBOP - https://www.instagram.com/official.nbop/ → The Host - https://www.instagram.com/mrjttaylor/ PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE (6 book series) → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNZPGPP

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  Your Customers Decided to Leave Long Before They Told You

  Aug 25, 20269 min

  The worst surprise in business is the customer who leaves out of nowhere, except it was never out of nowhere. They decided to leave weeks or months before they told you, and the cancellation was just the paperwork. In this episode, JT breaks down why retention is not measured at the renewal but decided in a hundred small moments along the way, and the three moves to see churn coming while you can still stop it: read the relationship at every touch point instead of waiting for the finish line, act at half the time to churn so you are preventing a decision instead of reversing one, and build one escalation that fires on a number and lands with a named owner. Ends with a one-customer homework assignment that will change how you see every account you still have. ------------ GET THE FREE SMALL BUSINESS MBA → https://notebookofacoo.com/small-business-mba.html OPERATORS LOOKING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE OF OPERATIONS → National Board of Operations Professionals - https://nationalboardofoperations.org/ SOCIAL MEDIA → The Show - https://www.instagram.com/notebookofacoo/ → NBOP - https://www.instagram.com/official.nbop/ → The Host - https://www.instagram.com/mrjttaylor/ PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE (6 book series) → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNZPGPP

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  You're Not Too Expensive, You're Selling to the Wrong People

  Aug 24, 202610 min

  My prices are too high. I keep losing deals on price. Almost every owner believes it, and it is almost never true. In this episode, JT reframes the most common complaint in small business: you are not too expensive, you are selling to the wrong people. Built on the Market Pyramid, he breaks down the three moves to fix it: see the three tiers of every market and choose yours on purpose, make the four things that signal your tier finally agree, and decide your way up instead of drifting. The three expensive mismatches that disguise a positioning problem as a price problem, plus a four-question homework assignment that finds the biggest leak in your business. You are not too expensive. You have just been aiming at the wrong people.

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  You Don't Have a Marketing Problem, You Have a Follow-Up Problem

  Aug 23, 20269 min

  Before you spend another dollar on ads, hear this: most small businesses do not have a marketing problem, they have a follow-up problem. Half of all leads never get followed up with even once, and most sales take five or more touches to close. In this episode, JT breaks down the three moves that plug the hole in your bucket: trace what actually happens to a lead after it comes in, build one simple automatic follow-up sequence, and treat speed-to-lead as the multiplier it is. Ends with a one-week homework assignment using a single real lead. You already paid for these leads. Go win them back.

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