Why I Love and Support Small Business.

I’m sitting in the rental car in front of the menu board at a large, corporate chain drive thru window and I can’t make an order. It’s been 30 seconds since the voice came through the box asking me “can I take your order?”, and the answer is finally clear – “No”. Because there’s absolutely nothing here I want.

When Your Business Outgrows Your Original Team Members

The early, and best, employees I hired in my first small business were generalists. Flexible, skilled in different areas, they could do a little bit of everything. They were awesome, and exactly what we needed. Their willingness to try and do different things was critical in helping my little company take on new projects and grow.

Inspired by a Schmuck, Now What?

Change the business; change your marketing; change your strategy, but what about change yourself? Change Yourself Whom you spend time with is whom you become I’ve heard this advice before, and it inspires me and terrifies me each time. If you want to make your business something different, you often need to make yourself different first.

Is Small Business Profit Hiding from You?

Profit. We chase it. Want it. Find it. Lose it. And chase it all over again. But often we over-complicate it. But too often we lose site of the basics? New products, services, vendors and the media work to convince us that there is a secret formula, some secret product that’s going to make profit appear in our business.