How Sara Left Her Cube to Start Her Own Fast Growing Training Business It’s not easy to walk away from a comfortable job, good paycheck and well defined career path for the unknown wilds of entrepreneurship. It’s not easy that is unless you can’t stand one more day of soul sucking monotony and feeling like…
How to Wow Your Customers Like Disney Does Lots of small business seem the same and are more or less the same- until it comes to service. If you can deliver amazing service to your clients you are going to stand out, be able to charge more, get more referrals and generally do a lot…
Should You Write One? Yes and No, With An Explanation In this episode of Questions and Rants I run through the reasons old school style 30-40 page business plans are going away but why there are still certain things you should think about figuring out before you write your plan. The exercise is not so…
Joel Libava Knows Franchises- Before You Buy One, See Him! Actually, I’ll take that a step further and say not all franchises are good, period. People new to the business of business sometimes have the idea that a franchise is an automatic success and you can’t lose money investing in one. That is absolutely not…
Taking Personal Training to The Next (Huge) Level With Jay Scott How do you stand out in an industry where you are one of over 279,000 people doing the same thing? Well, Jay Scott has figured it out for his business and I think he’s got a great approach. He is marrying technology with the…
Drew Burks and His Profit Sharing Sales Funnel Building Business There is a famous quote by sales guru Zig Ziglar that says: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” That pretty well sums up how Drew Burks business works. His company JustFunnelIt.com…
Ryan James and The Genesis Of MyStartupUniversity I had fun talking with Ryan James of MyStartupUniversity.com and StartupSavant.com because he’s one of those people with a genuine good nature and positive attitude. Plus, he’s done some really cool stuff! He started out with some other ideas for starting a business and along the way discovered…
From Navy SEAL to Cyber Security Guru Eric Basu Has Had Quite A Ride Today’s podcast is with my good friend Eric Basu who heads a large government contracting business he started from scratch while originally working on starting a biotech firm. Eric and I discuss a lot about what is means to be an…
Brittany Bearden is a PR expert. So naturally I wanted to pick her brain as to how to go about getting good press for my small business- or any business, for that matter. I know that having a third party write nice things about my company is worth a lot more than me buying an…
How Great Service and Niche Focus Can Makes For Fast Growth Matt Vaadi and I had a great discussion about building a services company the way it should be done. That is, you look at all the weak points in the way the existing businesses do it and then you design a company from the…