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You know how in regular life, over time, without meaning to, you accumulate stuff you’re paying for without really realizing it? Things like streaming subscriptions, unused gym memberships, car wash memberships, free trials, but then you forget to cancel stuff, and on and on. Life gets busy, and we mostly don’t have time to stay…

In my first webinar in the Double Your Profits series, I spent a good amount of time talking about what adding value means in a business and why it’s the basis of how business works at a fundamental level. In today’s newsletter, I want to focus more on tactically what it means and how to…

If you’ve been at your business for a while, you’ve probably had the thought more than once – boy, if I were doing this over, I’d definitely do X differently (or not do X at all!). No business ever moves in a straight line or knows exactly what it’s going to be when it just…

I am back from vacation (had a great time, thanks for asking 🙂 ) and super excited to kick off this webinar series for our Growth and Premium CapForge clients. It starts next week, Wednesday at 9 am Pacific. An email will be sent out soon to get your Zoom link! I am excited because…

Let’s assume for a minute we can all agree that if you are a business owner, then being able to eventually sell your business is part of your goal. If it’s not, then let’s just say you are leaving a lot of money on the table and value you could be adding to what you…

If you find yourself running into the same problem each week in your business, that is the clearest sign you’re ever going to get that it’s time to come up with a new system for whatever those problems happen to be.  If you fix one problem a week (even a small one) that recurs, by…

This is not a number people talk about, but it’s one that’s really worth thinking about! After all, if you have a job, you definitely know your hourly rate of pay, or if you are on a salary, you can very quickly determine how much your time is being valued. So just because you own…

From time to time, I get questions about banking for business, and I thought for today’s newsletter, I’d share some of the more common ones. Banking isn’t something I spend much time on in my business, but there are a few things worth thinking about on the topic. What’s the best bank to use for…

This is my theory, prove me wrong! 🙂 When someone buys something- a product, a service, a restaurant meal, a new car, a tiny part for a broken dishwasher, etc- they are buying because they are hopeful and optimistic. They are hopeful that they have made a good choice and that the thing they bought…