The Great Profit Squeeze

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this urgent and no-holds-barred session, Darren Hardy pulls back the curtain on a rapidly escalating crisis facing business leaders today—The Great Profit Squeeze. It’s not just rising costs… it’s simultaneous pressure on every key input, collapsing marketing effectiveness, and dangerously outdated assumptions. In this extended session you will learn how to dobule your profit margins in 90 days, cut your customer acquisition cost by 60%, increase customer life time value and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.
0:06.1	In today's episode, Darren exposes the harsh reality every business leader is facing right now,
0:10.9	the great profit squeeze, where costs are skyrocketing, while customers still expect
0:15.6	pre-inflation prices. But here's the twist. While your competitors are drowning,
0:20.1	Darren reveals how to turn
0:21.3	this economic pressure into your greatest competitive advantage. Learn his proven framework that can
0:26.5	double your profit margins without raising prices slash customer acquisition costs by up to 60%
0:31.7	and build a referral engine that generates premium customers for free. And here's your mentor and mine, Darren Hardy.
0:40.9	Hello and welcome, everybody.
0:42.7	Okay, so last Tuesday, a successful restaurant owner in Dallas told me something that should
0:47.5	terrify every business leader in North America.
0:50.6	Darren, he said, I'm making more revenue than ever, but I'm going broke. Here's how. His food costs are up 40%. His labor costs jump 35%. His rent increased 25%. And here's the killer. His customers still expect the same prices they paid three years ago. Does that sound familiar? As business leaders, we are living
1:12.6	through what I call the great profit squeeze. And it is not your imagination. What work to get you
1:19.0	here today won't work any longer going forward. And working harder won't save you. Cutting corners
1:25.4	definitely won't save you. And get this, growing revenue, even that won't save you. Cutting corners definitely won't save you. And get this, growing revenue,
1:29.5	even that won't save you. And most business leaders think the current environment is temporary.
1:35.9	They're waiting for things to, quote, get back to normal. But here's the fact. This is the new normal.
1:43.4	And the businesses that survive won't be the ones who endure the squeeze.
1:48.5	Enduring will still be failing.
1:50.3	It will be the businesses that turn this squeeze into their greatest competitive market advantage.
1:56.2	So in this session, I'm going to show you exactly how to turn the great profit squeeze into at least a 200% profit increase in the next 90 days.
2:06.9	While your competitors are drowning in rising costs and shrinking margins, while they're desperately cutting quality to maintain profits, and while they're losing their best people to better job offers,
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