Grow Your Business Newsletter

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…

What Is Your “Year-End Inventory Value”? This is the total dollar value of all products in your warehouses as of the end of your fiscal year. We adjust your inventory account in QuickBooks to ensure the balance in your warehouse matches the balance in QuickBooks. Why Do We Do This? We do not have direct…

Company culture is a term you hear thrown around a lot but usually in reference to larger businesses. The reality is though that every business has a culture even if there is only one person there. The culture is generally determined by the owner because they determine what the business is, how it operates, who…