Back in 2020 and 2021 and into 2022 we were getting flooded by two kinds of calls – ecom sellers who wanted to get their books together so they could sell their businesses and ecom business buyers wanting to know if any of our clients wanted to sell. We had built out a specialty in…
It is amazing to me how often the littlest, simplest things can be the most powerful. Sometimes people get all caught up in wanting to make things really extraordinary and over the top and amazing but in doing so they lose the point in the first place. I’m thinking of weddings and gender reveals and…
I love to read and am rarely without a pile of books I’m working on. One of my favorites, which I found years ago in my sister’s room because she had been assigned the novel at school, is The Princess Bride. At first, I thought it probably wasn’t something I’d want to read (very much…
I find for most entrepreneurs I meet they feel it is very hard to stop having business ideas. Once you go down the road of deciding to do your own thing and see how making a business out of solving a problem can lead to a very rewarding business it is hard to then stop…
I’ve never had a business partner, so how do I know this? Simple – I’ve seen dozens (hundreds?) of businesses break up over partnership issues and way, way fewer partnerships actually thrive. In fact just yesterday in the news was the story of the bitter break up of a thirty-year partnership between the guy who brought Sriracha…
I have often said that I wouldn’t mind being rich but I’d never want to be famous. If I was someone who happened to love and excel at something that made me well known as a byproduct, I guess I’d still do it, but I’d spend any time I could away from the scrutiny and…
For most of my life, I’ve played sports. When I was young, I tried basketball and soccer because that’s what most kids played and I had no baseline to know what I liked or didn’t like. Turns out, I didn’t like either of those much, probably at least partly because I wasn’t very good at…
There are two general kinds of marketing a business can do. You can do brand building or you can do direct response. Brand building is what Coke does, what beer companies do, and what a lot of car companies do. They make expensive commercials whose only purpose is to remind you that they are out…
A lot of people think of small business and entrepreneurship as a highly risky venture. Everyone knows someone – maybe even someone in their family or circle of friends – who went into business and it didn’t work out. There are all kinds of stats floating around on the internet about how 1 in 5…
This is the time of year when a lot of people are trying out goals they set at the end of last year. Some may have already given up and others may be going strong. But usually, these goals are personal in nature and for some reason, most people don’t carry this idea over to…