Hey, I’m Chris. For ten years I ran service businesses in America from a desk in Japan, with four exits along the way. If you’re new, this is the order I’d take things in. Nothing here needs buying until the last step, and that one can wait.
How one cleaning company, started with seven hundred dollars and run from a desk in Japan, led to everything on this site.
Read the story →Notes from an Optional Owner, now most weeks: on running a business that doesn’t need you, and what to do with the time it gives back. Written from Yokohama, usually after a run, and easy to leave.
You’re in. Welcome.
Start a local service business the way I did, in the right order: five stages from first customer to a company that runs without you. Self-paced, bought directly, running since 2018.
Start at localbusinessmba.com →A small-group programme for owners who have built something that works and want it to work without them: the day to day handed over, the business run remotely if you like. The capstone.
How it works →Private one-to-one work is closed for now.
Build a VA agency: the remote office behind local businesses, taught by the founder of Inova Local, the first virtual staffing agency dedicated to home services. Not open yet.
Thanks. You’ll hear from me when it opens.
Goes straight to me. It doesn’t sign you up to the letter.
Written from the other side of the world · Yokohama, Japan