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…
Today’s newsletter is going to be short because I am traveling but it actually reminded me of one of the key traits you want in your business. And it’s one of the things that as a small business you can definitely include and which is much harder for larger businesses to replicate. I was reminded…
Value and price are two very fundamental but very important concepts in business and not something I think a lot of business owners think about too much. When I ask clients about how they came up with their pricing the answer very often is along the lines of “that’s about what other people were asking”…
Lately, we’ve had some things happen here that get me down as a business owner. The good news is, I’ve been doing this long enough that it doesn’t get me nearly as down as it used to but that’s because I’ve been around long enough to know what business ownership is really like. If you…
I was listening to a podcast recently and was introduced to the idea of Output Thinking and I really liked the message and thought it was something I should share. There are tons of business books out there and many simply rehash old ideas or are too high level to be of much day-to-day use…
We all have periods of time when business feels slow and we’re not feeling great about the prospects for growth even in the busiest and best-run businesses. Imagine though if you ran a business where the entire business itself was facing the possibility of dying off. Maybe not this year, maybe not next, but it…
I had what is probably the weirdest small business experience of my recent memory this past weekend. It started out simply – I needed my eyeglasses fixed and in a quick Yelp search, I came across this place 15 minutes from my house that had good reviews and unlike every other one wasn’t an optical…