Client Wins Are Your Wins: Scale Your Coaching Impact with TIMBUC

The Unseen Crisis & Your Coaching Opportunity

By Taylor Treese

Date: 07/17/2025

As a business coach or someone looking to enter the rewarding world of SMB coaching, you've likely encountered a recurring challenge: Many small to medium-sized business owners are absolute masters of their craft, brilliant at what they do, and deeply passionate about their product or service. Yet, despite their talent and hard work, their businesses often hit a wall. They're busy, generating some revenue, but not experiencing the consistent, explosive growth or profit increases they envision.

This isn't just an isolated issue; it's an unseen crisis across the small to medium-sized business landscape. However, this also represents a significant coaching opportunity for those who can precisely identify and solve this fundamental problem. What if you, as a coach, had a straightforward, proven method to not only determine why these businesses are stuck but also to pinpoint the exact leverage points that can unlock significant, even exponential, revenue growth for your clients, thereby proving your own unparalleled value?

II. The Hidden Truth: Why Expertise Alone Isn't Enough

(And What Your Clients Need from You)

It's a familiar story you'll hear from countless SMB owners: they launched their business because they were incredibly good at something specific. They might be a brilliant chef creating culinary masterpieces, a skilled mechanic keeping cars running perfectly, a top-tier consultant delivering game-changing advice, or an innovative designer crafting stunning visuals. Their clients love their work, and their reputation for excellence is solid.

However, as coaches, we know the critical, often unacknowledged, reality: being an expert in their field doesn't automatically equip them to be an expert at running a business. The core skills required to deliver their primary service are vastly different from those needed to promote, manage, and scale a profitable enterprise effectively. Many passionate founders, your potential clients, stumble when it comes to the less glamorous but vital aspects of business operations.

This gap leads to common pitfalls in areas like strategic marketing, establishing efficient sales funnels, precise financial management beyond basic bookkeeping, and crafting long-term strategic plans for sustainable growth. What is the consequence for their businesses? Despite offering truly excellent products or services, they often stagnate, struggle to break through revenue plateaus, or fail to reach the immense potential that their core expertise holds. As their coach, your role isn't just to motivate, but to provide the missing blueprint – to help them shift from merely working hard, to working smart on the right things.

III. Precision Power: Applying the 80/20 Rule to Your Clients' Businesses

This is where your coaching impact can truly accelerate. You've likely heard of the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 Rule: the idea that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. In business, this principle is an absolute game-changer. For your small and medium-sized business clients, it often means that 80% of their revenue comes from just 20% of their products, services, or even customers. Similarly, 80% of their profit might be generated by a mere 20% of their efforts or marketing channels.

The power of the 80/20 rule isn't just in its existence; it lies in its practical application. As coaches, our challenge often lies in helping clients cut through the noise to identify which specific 20% of activities, strategies, or bottlenecks are truly holding back 80% of their potential growth. Without this precise identification, efforts can be scattered, leading to frustration and slow progress for your clients.

This is where the TIMBUC method offers a distinct advantage for your practice. We move beyond general advice to provide you with the tools to pinpoint that precise 20%. Our system is designed to reveal exactly where your client's efforts will yield the most disproportionate returns, allowing you to focus their limited time and resources on the activities that truly make a difference. Knowing the 20% that your clients should focus on isn't just insightful; it's the strategic key to unlocking their hidden revenue and dramatically accelerating their growth journey.

IV. The Exponential Leap: Small Changes, Massive Results

Now that you, the coach, can pinpoint that crucial 20% of activities or areas for your client, the real magic of the TIMBUC method unfolds. Many business owners, overwhelmed by the sheer scale of "what needs to be done," often freeze or pursue grand, time-consuming overhauls that yield minimal results. Our method champions a different, far more effective approach: small, incremental changes focused precisely on that identified 20%.

Imagine helping a client implement a tiny tweak to their lead qualification process (part of their crucial 20% in sales) or refine their most profitable service offering (part of their core 20% of products). These aren't revolutionary shifts. They're often minor adjustments, subtle improvements, or focused efforts that require far less investment in time and resources than sweeping changes.

Yet, because these small changes are applied to the most impactful areas, their effects don't just add up; they compound exponentially. This is how you can help your clients double, triple, or even quadruple their revenue without necessarily doubling their workload or overhauling their entire business. Each minor, smart adjustment acts like a consistent reinvestment, amplifying the returns from the next. This compounding effect builds momentum, leading to a sustainable and accelerating path to growth that feels achievable, not overwhelming, to your clients. It's about working smarter, not just harder, and guiding them to make those strategic, high-leverage moves.

V. The TIMBUC Method in Action: Your Blueprint for Coach-Led Growth

So, how do all these powerful concepts—the silent SMB crisis, the precision of the 80/20 Rule, and the exponential power of incremental changes—come together for you, the coach? They form the core of the TIMBUC Method, your robust framework for delivering undeniable value and transforming your clients' businesses.

This isn't just theory; it's a practical blueprint:

1. Acknowledge and Quantify the Gap: You'll start by helping your clients truly see the hidden revenue they're leaving on the table. Our method provides the tools to precisely identify where their passion for their craft has outpaced their business acumen, turning abstract frustrations into quantifiable opportunities.

   
   

2. Pinpoint the High-Leverage 20%: Forget generic advice. With TIMBUC, you gain the clarity to swiftly pinpoint the exact 20% of activities or areas in their unique business that are holding back 80% of their potential growth. This focused insight allows you to create a coaching plan that’s surgical, not scattered.

   
   

3. Drive Exponential Returns with Small Shifts: You'll then guide your clients through implementing targeted, incremental changes within that high-leverage 20%. Our approach empowers you to show them how seemingly minor adjustments, executed consistently, compound rapidly to deliver exponential increases in revenue and profit.

By embracing the TIMBUC method, you're not just offering coaching; you're offering a measurable pathway to breakthrough growth. You're equipping yourself to reveal precisely how much revenue small and medium-sized businesses are leaving on the table—and instantly proving your unparalleled value as their strategic partner. This empowers you to build a thriving coaching practice based on precise, quantifiable results.

Here is a story to help coaches visualize the power of TIMBUC and our Assessment Software:

👟 A Quick Coffee-Shop Story

“So, you’re telling me I’m leaving six figures on the table every year?”

That’s what Jenna asked after the first sip of her latte. Jenna owns a new and growing, yet still struggling, landscaping company—$320K in annual sales, killer reviews, and crews booked solid. But at the end of each month, she’s still scraping for cash.

I slid my tablet across the table and hit “Run.” In sixty seconds, two little bars appeared on the screen.

Bar #1 – The Leak (the Inefficiency Gap)It showed three fat cost buckets:• plant & material invoices• overtime payroll• Google Ad spend that wasn’t converting

The app whispered, “If we trim just the easy-to-spot waste here, you keep an extra $42K this year.”

Bar #2 – The Empty Shelf (the Strategy Gap)Next, the screen lit up with 25 light bulbs—each one a proven growth lever (think lead magnets, referral programs, email follow-ups). The bulbs that stayed gray? Jenna hadn’t flipped them on yet.

Every time she turns a gray bulb green, the bar grows fast. Flip enough of them, and the bar multiplies itself (the app quietly caps the magic before the returns become unrealistic, so it never feels like fantasy).

Add the two bars together and—boom—$273K in found money. Jenna stared. I smiled.

That’s the same two-step check TIMBUC runs for every owner doing $80K+ a year. It’s not science class; it’s a treasure map drawn over coffee.

VI. Your Path to Impact: Become a High-Value Coach with TIMBUC

Are you ready to stop watching potential clients struggle and start transforming businesses? The TIMBUC method offers a clear, actionable path to becoming the high-impact coach you aspire to be. You don't need a shelf full of advanced business certifications or an MBA from an Ivy League university to make a profound difference. What you do need is a sharp mind, solid business experience, and the dedication to follow a proven system.

TIMBUC empowers you to leverage your existing strengths, providing the precise tools to confidently land new clients by quantifying their untouched growth opportunities. Our software allows you to demonstrate your value from the very first interaction. Once they're on board, you'll apply the strategic power of incremental changes across those 25 critical growth strategies. It's a systematic approach that builds on small, consistent wins, leading to massive breakthroughs.

This isn't just about growing your clients' businesses; it's also about growing your own. By delivering tangible, measurable results, you'll cultivate a base of happier, more satisfied coaching clients. They'll see the direct impact of your guidance on their bottom line, leading to stronger relationships, longer engagements, and a continuous stream of referrals. With TIMBUC, you gain the clarity and confidence to guide your clients to unparalleled success, solidifying your reputation as an indispensable partner in their growth journey.