Laughlin Business Advisors Start Here
Craig and Jessica Laughlin, founders of Laughlin Business Advisors

Advisors to owners · Alexandria, Virginia

Build a business
you could sell
tomorrow.But don't want to.

Most owners try to fix a money problem by selling more. The money is usually already in the business, sitting in a handful of places nobody checks.

Find your path See how the math works

What we do

We turn the revenue you already have into more profit.

$90,158New profit, year one

Five small fixes on a $500,000 business with a 10 percent net.

5% + 5% + 5% + 5% + 5% is not 25%.

Added up, five fixes would mean 25 percent more profit. They multiply instead, because each builds on the one before it. Profit goes from $50,000 to $140,158. Up 180 percent.

Sample figures.

Run your own numbers
The fixYear one
Cut your costs5%$22,500
Stand out from competitors5%$12,500
A better offer5%$13,125
Raise your prices5%$27,563
Sell more to each customer5%$14,470
Added to the bottom line$0

Our influences

We studied the best. Then built our own.

A few of the thinkers who shaped how we work. We kept what held up with real owners and layered it into one system you work in order, on your own numbers.

Opening a business
  • The E-Myth RevisitedMichael Gerber
  • $100M OffersAlex Hormozi
  • The Lean StartupEric Ries
Making it pay
  • Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've GotJay Abraham
  • Profit FirstMike Michalowicz
  • Blue Ocean StrategyKim and Mauborgne
Selling it well
  • Built to SellJohn Warrillow
  • Finish BigBo Burlingham
  • Walking to DestinyChristopher Snider
Coaching other owners
  • The Coaching HabitMichael Bungay Stanier
  • Million Dollar ConsultingAlan Weiss
  • The Prosperous CoachChandler and Litvin

Our books

Three with our name on them.

Free to read, all three.

Profit Acceleration Secrets
Profit Acceleration SecretsAccelerate. Elevate. Dominate.
The Entrepreneur's Playbook
The Entrepreneur's PlaybookForty essential strategies to dominate profitable growth.
Leads Unleashed
Leads UnleashedFifty-two game-changing ideas to bring customers in.
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The path to freedom

The math is not new. The delivery is.

Every owner who gets free climbs the same four stages. No book can climb them for you.

01 · AwakeningYou see the number.The problem becomes something you can measure.
02 · SubmittingYou stop arguing.It is real, it is yours, and more hours will not fix it.
03 · BecomingYou do the work.Weekly, then monthly, until it is how you run.
04 · LiberatingYou are free of it.The business pays you, and your time is yours again.
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Where you are today

Which one is true right now?

Most owners walk more than one of these, usually in this order. Pick the one that is true today.

Launch

I want to open a business.

Launch path

Profit

It is open and underpaying me.

Profit path

Exit

I want to sell it one day.

Exit path

Coach

I want to guide other owners.

Coach path

Above every path sits The Boardroom: a weekly 1:1 call with Craig plus quarterly and annual planning, five owners at a time.

Who you would be working with

I failed so you don't have to.

Craig Laughlin Jr, founder

I built my first business by adding hours, and it cost me nearly everything. What I teach now is proven. Nobody showed me while there was still time.

Jessica and I are equal partners. I run the advisory work. Jessica runs delivery and keeps every piece of it on track.

Read the whole story
Craig Laughlin Jr
Craig Laughlin JrFounder · Master Business Coach
Jessica Laughlin
Jessica LaughlinFounder · PMP®
16Years in business

Building, running and fixing businesses.

2Businesses built and sold

Built, grown and sold before this firm.

250+Business owners a year

For five and a half years, in four countries.

5×Certified

Launch, Profit, Exit, Master Coach, Warrior Trainer.

Try it on your hardest question

Bring the problem that's keeping you up at night.

Join The Profit Room free for seven days. Post that question the day you join and get on a weekly call. You may not solve it in a week, but a Master Business Coach and a room of owners will be working it with you.

I can't serve you if I can't see you. So bring it in.

Start your seven days free
The Profit Room on Skool: local business owners, get your money and your nights back

Your seven days

  • Day one. Post the question you have been wanting to ask a coach.
  • This week. Join a weekly call and work it live.
  • Day eight. Worth $97 a month? Stay. Not worth it? Cancel it yourself before then and nothing is charged. No refunds after that, and no contract.
  • For scale. A seat in The Boardroom, our top tier, is $7,497 a month. The Profit Room is $97.

Not sure where you fit? Four questions, about a minute, no email.

Find your pathTalk to Craig