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…
We go to several trade shows per year as a way to meet potential new clients and keep on top of the goings on in the industries we serve. Nothing beats face-to-face discussions to find out what potential customers really care about and how they make their buying decisions. Sometimes though we also meet other…
One of the things we’ve been doing a lot lately here is working with potential buyers of businesses. I used to be primarily focused on being a business broker before I moved into the accounting side of things so it’s a space I know well. There also seems to be a big push lately into…
I had an interesting conversation the other day with a fellow accounting firm owner. She had hired a few different firms to do lead generation for her – cold emails, LinkedIn outreach, and some paid ads. None of it worked. At all. The interesting part was that she was complaining that the marketing agencies she…
There are a lot of things you need to grow your business successfully, all of which are important and necessary. It would be hard to put them in any kind of order of importance since with any one missing you’ll find your growth slowed or completely stalled. Most business owners I know, however, have many…
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…