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This Auto Drip Saved My Business

Drip, drip, drip, drip…

How can a “drip” help your business?

This drip saved my business and helped me sleep better at night starting a couple of years ago.

I’m Ron Ramsden and I’m a DYB coach, also a painting contractor North of Boston, Massachusetts.

Picture this:

January, February, it’s cold, in the middle of Winter, especially up here in New England.

Calls are not exactly pouring in, and your bank accounts getting low with all the regular expenses you have.

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Those checks that come in the mail still haven’t gotten here…

Things are tight and you find yourself waking up a little earlier in the morning worrying about bills and work, more than you ever have… it happens.

So what is this drip I talked about?

Well, first of all, we have our business checking account and then we have our business savings account.

We have an automatic drip from our business checking to our business savings, it’s an automatic withdrawal.

You don’t press any buttons, you just set it up with your bank once, and you can do it with your online banking or you can walk into a branch and have it done.

Then that’s it, out of sight out of mind.

If you’ve never done something like this before, you start out with $25 a week, automatically on a certain day you will notice it gone because you are not used to seeing that.

As time goes by, after about 10 weeks take a glance over at that savings account. It’s going to add up really fast!

Maybe you start with a little more if you have a higher cash flow, $50, or $100 a week. It’s not that you can’t take it, it’s there if you need it.

Imagine this, you let it go all Summer increasing as the cash flow gets better and better. Come September you might have $1000, $2000, maybe even $5000 dollars in there!

It’s not that you can’t touch it once again, it’s there if you need it.

Maybe you’re waiting for that large check from a job and you need something to cover cash flow.

You go in and you take it out of there, transfer it into your business checking but when the check comes you transfer it back.

Maybe it’s that large tool you need, an expensive tool, an extra piece of equipment for the business.

Then imagine this, January or February when cash flow is tight, glance over at that account, there is that extra money for you.

Maybe it’s an end of the year bonus for yourself. Maybe it’s a down payment on a new vehicle for the business.

That’s what the drip does. It’s a small drip that you won’t even notice, from week to week to week it will build the savings for your business in a different pot.

Out of sight out of mind, you’ll get used to it and you won’t glance at it.

You’ll actually start waiting until that next thousand is in the savings account. This also works personally too.

Your personal checking into your personal savings account. And that will help you grow, maybe do that purchase of a second home someday.

I’m Ron Ramsden and I’m a DYB Coach. I’m also a painting contract North of Boston Massachusetts, helping painting contractors like you work on your business so you don’t have to work in your business.

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About the Author

As many of you know, my journey has been one of grit, grace, and transformation. At 19, I was a high school dropout, single father, and struggling paint contractor in Michigan. I later moved to Florida, where I faced both personal and professional hardships. With nothing left to lose, I turned to prayer—and was blessed with a relentless hunger to learn. I devoured books, attended seminars, and discovered better ways to streamline and grow my business—even through the Great Recession (and yes, I did hit the wife lottery along the way!). In 2014, I published How To Double Your Business and later sold the painting business, launching a new chapter: coaching others to grow their businesses. For the past 10 years, I’ve dedicated myself to helping business owners scale through the DYB System, while also drawing from frameworks like EOS, Scaling Up, and The Four Disciplines of Execution. Yet something was still missing—something more adaptive, integrated, and complete. Then I found Pinnacle. After months of research and interviews with other Guides, I joined Pinnacle. Their tools and strategies have exceeded every expectation. Now, as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help leadership teams implement a custom-tailored operating system that draws from the best in the industry—but flexes with your unique business. It’s a dynamic, proven approach to achieve clarity, momentum, and lasting growth. I’m no longer taking on any more 1:1 coaching clients… Instead, I now specialize in working with visionary business owners who are ready to get their leadership teams aligned—around a clear vision, a focused strategy, and an actionable execution plan. With the tools and process I now have as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help turn alignment into momentum, and momentum into results. If your business is growing—but your leadership team isn’t fully rowing in the same direction—let’s talk.