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Cut Smart: Cut Costs Without Cutting Capability

Intermediate 42 min 9 lessonsGold Standard

Cut business costs without cutting what drives growth: sort every expense before you cut, test which cuts pay and which bleed, renegotiate old vendor contracts, clean up an overgrown software stack, and find the waste hiding in payroll.

9 lessons: 1 audio lesson (26:50 of listening) and 8 short reads, plus a 5-question quiz. By iMU. Members only.

Go deeper in the iMU Library: Cut Smart (book), plus 4 matching guides in Guides: The Four-Beat Vendor Renegotiation Script; Kill the Franken-Stack; 7 Cost Cuts That Save Cash Now and Bleed Profit Later; Strategic Cost Reduction.

General education. Examples and figures are illustrations; no income or results are promised. Not financial or investment advice: do your own due diligence and talk to a licensed professional before you buy, sell or invest.

What's inside

Welcome: How This Course Works
  1. Welcome: How This Course Works
Listen: Cost Control That Compounds
  1. Listen: Cost Control That Compounds
Day 1: The One Sort That Decides Every Cut You Make
  1. Day 1: The One Sort That Decides Every Cut You Make
Day 2: Two Tests That Separate Cuts That Pay From Cuts That Bleed
  1. Day 2: Two Tests That Separate Cuts That Pay From Cuts That Bleed
Day 3: Renegotiate the Legacy Contracts You Haven't Touched in Years
  1. Day 3: Renegotiate the Legacy Contracts You Haven't Touched in Years
Day 4: The Four-Step Audit That Kills the Franken-Stack
  1. Day 4: The Four-Step Audit That Kills the Franken-Stack
Day 5: Three Questions That Find the Waste Hiding in Payroll
  1. Day 5: Three Questions That Find the Waste Hiding in Payroll
Day 6: The 90-Day Test That Prevents Costly Staffing Mistakes
  1. Day 6: The 90-Day Test That Prevents Costly Staffing Mistakes
Day 7: Three Numbers and a 30-Day Plan to Put This in Motion
  1. Day 7: Three Numbers and a 30-Day Plan to Put This in Motion

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