October 5, 2025

Happy Sunday, everyone!
Good morning 🌞—I hope your weekend is treating you kindly (and maybe giving you a chance to slow down a little).

Here’s something worth chewing on with your coffee: every business, no matter how big or small, has its weak spots. Sometimes they’re obvious—like a leaky pipe. Other times, they’re hidden—like a tiny crack in the foundation you don’t notice until it spreads. The trick isn’t to avoid them altogether (that’s impossible). The trick is knowing how to spot them early and fix them before they cost you time, energy, or money.

Today’s post is all about exactly that: how to find and fix weak spots in your business. Think of it like doing a health check-up—except instead of cholesterol levels, we’re checking for profit leaks, system bottlenecks, and overlooked opportunities.

Because the truth is: the strongest businesses aren’t the ones with zero flaws. They’re the ones that catch issues early, patch them up, and come out stronger than before. 💪

So let’s dive in together and make sure your business is running not just smoothly—but resiliently.

— Ryan Rincon, Founder at The Wealth Wagon Inc.

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Running a business is like running a machine. If one part is out of sync, the whole system slows down — or worse, breaks. The challenge? Most business owners are so busy running day-to-day operations that they don’t notice the weak spots quietly draining profits.

Let’s break down the areas worth auditing in your business to find problems before they become costly.

A common mistake is thinking a sales issue is about “not enough leads.” But often, it’s actually about losing the leads you already have.

Improving conversion rates even by 10% can often do more than doubling ad spend.

Business owners sometimes confuse busy with productive. If your team spends half their time on repetitive tasks, you’re losing money.

Time saved is profit earned.

Here’s a stat worth remembering: it’s usually 5x cheaper to keep a customer than to acquire a new one.

Questions to ask yourself:

If you’re losing repeat business, you’re paying for growth the hard way.

A lot of businesses fail not because they weren’t profitable — but because they weren’t liquid.

Numbers don’t lie. Make sure you actually look at them.

The people in your business are your business. One wrong hire can drain productivity and morale.

A good team multiplies your time and energy. A bad one drains both.

This one kills more businesses than people realize: chasing too many opportunities.

Growth comes from focus, not from doing more random things.

Here’s a simple checklist to run every 90 days:

Spend one afternoon answering those questions, and you’ll uncover 2–3 fixes that could add thousands back to your bottom line.

Businesses rarely collapse from one big mistake. It’s usually death by a thousand cuts. The good news? That also means small adjustments — fixing leaks, simplifying systems, improving retention — can lead to big gains over time.

Don’t wait for a crisis to do a deep dive. Treat your business like an investment portfolio: audit it regularly, fix the weak spots, and let compounding improvement do the heavy lifting.

On October 5, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a then-record high of 2,722 points. Just two weeks later, Black Monday would wipe out nearly 22% in a single day.

In Japan, companies like Canon and Hitachi once had in-office napping pods — because bosses believed short naps boosted productivity. A true “sleep-on-the-job” benefit!

Would you rather:

Three entrepreneurs are sitting in a café. Each wears either a red or a blue hat, but they can’t see their own. They’re told that at least one hat is blue. Each looks at the others and says they don’t know their own color. Finally, the third says: “I know my hat is blue.”

Question: How did the third entrepreneur know?

*Answers at the bottom

Brain Teaser - Answer: If the first two couldn’t figure it out, it means they both saw at least one blue hat. Since the third saw two red hats, he realized his own must be blue