I am competitive by nature. I enjoy taking quizzes to see how well I know my geography, or if I can answer trivia questions about the 80’s and 90’s or whatever other challenge some clickbait link is throwing at me. I can’t pass them up and I like to see where I stand when they…
It’s interesting to me that for as big a part of business as price and price strategy is, you don’t hear it talked about much. In my MBA program, it was barely mentioned. If you look at the books in the business section at the bookstore, there isn’t a whole section on it. In fact,…
Back in 2004, I bought a business using an SBA loan, money I’d saved from consulting, and a lot of confidence I probably shouldn’t have had. I wasn’t naïve to the restaurant industry; I’d been working in restaurants since I was 16 as a waiter and then assistant manager and general manager. I knew the…
This week is one of my favorites of the whole year because it’s the week of our company retreat. This is the fourth year we’ve done it. I love getting to see everyone again in person! For the first eight years of the company, everyone (or nearly) worked in the office together. We would occasionally…
In my specific neighborhood, there are about 250 homes. And there is one real estate agent who gets about two-thirds of the listings in the area. Her name is Sandy and she also lives in the neighborhood. If you go by the stat I found that San Diegans generally sell their homes on average after…
Today’s newsletter is going to be short because I need you to save your time here and go spend 79 minutes listening to this guy on YouTube. I know 79 minutes sounds like it’s a lot but in fact there is no fluff and it’s all super relevant and helpful for anyone working on growing…
I tend to harp on growing your business a lot in this newsletter but it’s been a long time since I covered the “why” of growth and I thought that might be something worth discussing today. Wanting to grow your business is something I take for granted that any business owner would want to do…
I was at a conference a few weeks ago talking to other business owners and one of the topics that came up was business growth. I took the opportunity to throw this question out since I’d been thinking about it a lot myself and I posed it to the group: “What is stopping you from…
When I first met my wife, she was a nurse. She went to school at Villanova for nursing and had been in the field for four years at that point. But that was long enough for her to realize it wasn’t for her. She loved working with patients but really disliked all the admin, paperwork,…
Something I did fairly recently was get a private pilot’s license. It’s been something I wanted to do forever, but only recently have I been able to spare the time and cost to make the dream come true. It has been one of the hardest things I’ve done in a long time. Running the business…