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As entrepreneurs, we have a low tolerance for boredom and a high drive for opportunity seeking. It’s how we got here in the first place. The problem is it can also get us in a lot of trouble. The last few years, I’ve gotten into flying airplanes. It’s something I always wanted to do, but…

There’s this moment every business owner knows too well: you’re reviewing last month’s numbers, and the labor line item makes your stomach drop. It’s crept up again, somehow accounting for 38% of revenue when you swore it was supposed to hover around 30%. Your first instinct is to do something dramatic: hire someone to fix…

Look, if you run a small business right now, you’ve probably noticed something weird happening. The stuff that worked two years ago? It’s just… not hitting the same way anymore. And you’re not alone in feeling that. Turns out about 80% of small businesses are basically in the same boat, scrambling to figure out what…

Here’s something that might sting a little. While you’ve been grinding away, pouring money into improving your product, developing new processes, or figuring out how to make your business run better, the government has essentially been saying “we’ll chip in for that,” and you might have been leaving that money on the table for years.…

You know that feeling when you’re about to make big decisions and your stomach does that weird flip-flop thing? That’s your gut telling you something important: that maybe, just maybe, you should think this through a bit more carefully. For small business owners, that sensation often hits right before signing a lease, hiring a key…

We do reviews of businesses for sale all the time, and one of the most common things we see outside of ecommerce businesses is very low spending on advertising. I’m talking about numbers of 1-2% or less of revenue. Why is that? When I look into it further, there are some common thread explanations: These…

I got a call recently from a prospective client who wanted some help with his tax returns. As we talked more, it turned out he actually needed help with almost five years of taxes he had never gotten around to filing. It also became clear that he was doing his own bookkeeping, but admittedly didn’t…

Remember when you could borrow money without wincing at the interest rate? Yeah, those days are gone. If you’ve been running a business for more than a couple of years, you’ve probably noticed your monthly loan payments creeping up like an unwelcome houseguest who keeps extending their stay. And if you’re thinking about taking out…

When you first started your business, you probably didn’t dream about tracking receipts and reconciling bank statements. You had bigger visions. Maybe you wanted to design beautiful spaces, bake the perfect croissant, or help companies overhaul their marketing strategies. Then reality hit, and someone (probably your accountant or that one friend who took a business…