Embracing Your Inner Oddball May 10, 2025 Often times increasing your financial momentum requires more than investing in real estate or buying or starting a business and making it grow. There are certain personal adjustments that need to be made. I’m talking about making changes in your mindset, your attitudes, your daily routines and your inner circle. Who Influences You A person’s inner circle has more influence on their success in business and in life than most people realize. How many...
8 days ago • 2 min read
3 Reasons Your Business Isn't Selling May 3, 2025 You’re a small business owner and you want to sell your business. It seems that no matter what you try you are stuck with it. Your exit strategy is failing! Why? What do you do about it? Let’s Back Up A Bit There are a lot of reasons why businesses can’t or don’t sell. I’ve decided to focus on three that I think are among the biggest reasons, and also the easiest to fix. 1. The Business Can’t Run Without You. I wrote about this in a previous...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Your Expertise Is Becoming More Important April 26, 2025 It’s true. Your expertise, your knowledge, and your experience are all becoming more important and more valuable. I was reading Justin Welsh’s newsletter article on how basic content is dying (https://www.justinwelsh.me/newsletter/basic-content-is-dying). I agree with this article. And I have an opinion on the topic as well. We are being flooded with AI generated content to the extent that the content is now largely worthless. If...
22 days ago • 2 min read
Failure Is Not The Problem April 19, 2025 Failure itself is not the problem. It’s what you do after the failure that matters. Many people resist doing something new because of a fear of failure. And then there are those who have the solution to that fear that tell us failure is a good thing because we learn from it. We learn what not to do. I somewhat disagree with this line of thought. We should be concerned about failure. We can learn from it. But, it is something to avoid, not something to...
29 days ago • 1 min read
One Mistake That Will Kill The Sale Of Your Business April 12, 2025 Do you dream of building your business up and someday making a 7 or 8 figure exit? Maybe higher? There is one mistake that almost every entrepreneur makes that will kill that dream and can even cause serious issues while you are still the owner. Not Letting Go - Doing Everything Yourself Are you this person: You try to wear every hat in the company. It’s easier to do it yourself than to try to train someone who you think...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hit The Reset Button April 5, 2025 Hit The Reset Button If you have ever called an IT person you have probably been told to use this fix a million times when asking for help with your computer- “Turn your computer off and back on again.” That cleared up a lot of problems. Older PCs had a reset button. Most computers today no longer have a reset button. Some do but you have to know where to look. The reset button restarts the system with a single button push and it was usually used when the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Make It Easy For Them To Give You Money March 29, 2025 Author and business coach Paul Martinelli always taught to “Make it easy for them to give you money.” Why would you not make it easy for someone to give you money? It’s not only logical but it’s smart. And yet I see it everywhere. Look at the long form sales letter. I can’t think of a more torturous, monotonous, and outright irritating journey to put a customer through before asking for the sale or offering a call to action. Long form...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Would You Give Up A Year Of Your Life? March 22, 2025 Would you give up a year of your life to be successful? I’m not talking about shortening your life. Would you be willing to spend the next year of your life totally focused on your business? Would you stop doing the things in your life that don’t move you forward? Of course some things like family, faith, and rest and relaxation move us forward and provide a return in ways that are difficult to quantify, but they are essential. My wife and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Make Use Of Your Resources March 15, 2025 "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Teddy Roosevelt Make Use Of Your Resources I know it seems obvious. And yet... We have all been there. We have that dreaded feeling of being trapped or stuck. We try all kinds of things to get unstuck. No one is immune to being stuck. It happens to everyone. And it seems that everyone with a YouTube channel or a social media account has the exact three, five, or seven step solution guaranteed to...
2 months ago • 2 min read