Playbook 1.5 · Open the Doors
Pay Yourself First
Profit isn't what's left over. It's what you take out first.
Who it is for
Home service owners. It sits on the Open the Doors shelf: the first ninety days. Setup, legal, money, and your first customers.
Like every Playbook, it is written for the owner who runs the business day to day, in plain English, with no invented numbers.
What's inside
Every Playbook follows the same eight sections, in the same order, so you always know where to look.
- The Argument. Why this part of the business matters, and what it costs you to get it wrong.
- What Good Looks Like. The standard to aim for, described plainly enough that you can tell when you are there.
- How to Build It. The step-by-step build, and the largest part of every book.
- The Rhythm. What to do every week, month and season to keep it working once it is built.
- The Scoreboard. The few numbers that tell you whether it is working.
- Where It Goes Wrong. The common ways it fails, including a case where the book's own advice is the wrong call.
- Related Playbooks. The other books this one leans on, and where to read next.
- Already Built For You. What GameTime OS already does for this, so you do not build it twice.
How to read it
- Download the PDF to keep, print or hand out, on Pro and up.
See the plans for what each one includes.
More in Open the Doors
- Ninety Days to Ready — Every phase asks for something different. Know what's coming.
- Licensing, Insurance & Setup — Boring work on day one. Protection on day four hundred.
- Your Truck & Equipment — Your first vehicle is a rolling billboard that happens to carry tools.
- Your First Ten Customers — Revenue before marketing. Every time.
Or see every published Playbook.
Read the whole book
The Playbooks live in the GameTime OS Library, beside the week they help you run: the meeting, the numbers and every commitment with a name and a date.