We talk a lot about business growth in this newsletter but we don’t often talk about how much growth. Mostly that’s because growth goals are personal and a function of what each owner wants from their business. But let’s talk about it today! How much growth should you aim for and what’s a good but…
Last week I was in Japan which is why I didn’t write a new newsletter. Instead, you got the one on measuring business success by how many vacation days you can take without your business falling apart. I am happy to report that while I was gone for eleven days things ran beautifully without me….
As amazing as it sounds, we just hit the halfway point of 2024. I might be aging myself, but this year seems to have flown by so far and there is so much I still want to do! If you’re like me, you made goals for 2024 before the year even rolled over and have…
Today’s blog is going to be short and sweet. I often talk about your goals and how you should set them, review them, measure them, and so on. Today I am going to tell you one of my goals – but it’s about helping you! In a business, there is really only one number that…
As business owners we generally want our businesses to grow and consider growth to be a good thing! The bigger you get the more you can do, the more you make, and the more successful your business is considered by almost everyone. But sometimes growth isn’t good for everyone. Sometimes growth is bad – for…
When you own a business and almost anyone asks you how it’s going, your natural instinct is to say “Great” because: Part of the problem is a lot of your personal identity can get wrapped up in your business. Which means if the business is having a bad day, then you must be doing something…
I came across this article from Entrepreneur magazine and there were so many great points in it I just had to share. The article features a couple who opened a small bar in Las Vegas in 2021 and in just three years have gotten it to the point where it was voted the #1 Mom…
Everyone’s heard the old sayings about the importance of a first impression. But I think most people associate that with either dating or making friends or even with customers if they are thinking about business settings. But there is another key place where the first impression can really set the tone and make a huge…
I once started a business in four days and then made over $1,000 in the next five days running it before pausing it momentarily, only to never restart it. Back in 2009, I had been reading about how people were making money with lead generation businesses and the business model appealed to me because it…
I like to think of myself generally as a pretty brave person. I’ve climbed to the top of mountains other people have died attempting. I’ve many times gone SCUBA diving with sharks that have been known to attack and kill people – with no cage. I have launched myself into space hanging from nothing but…