Buying Or Selling A Business- The First Obstacle December 12, 2025 Whether you are buying or selling a business there is one obstacle to overcome. It’s on the seller to remove that obstacle but it’s up to the buyer to do their due diligence and make sure it’s done right. If it’s not, there should be no deal. At least no deal in it’s original proposed form. I’m talking about the business’s financials and bookkeeping. You Are Driving Down The Value I’ve seen this problem so many times when...
9 days ago • 2 min read
Holiday Overload - It's Coming! December 5, 2025 Created using ojoy.ai Here it comes- Holiday Overload! Every year it happens. Stress over everything goes through the roof. Buying the right gifts. Do we go to the kid’s house or do they come here for Christmas? Or do we just stay home and have Christmas alone, just the two of us? What do we cook for dinner? Everyone expects certain holiday foods. Turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, stuffing(yech!), etc. One year we cooked enchiladas for...
16 days ago • 2 min read
The Thanks-Giving Mindset November 29, 2025 Thanksgiving- The forgotten holiday. It comes between two of the most commercially hyped holidays, Halloween, and Christmas, and has been attached to Black Friday, a non-holiday shopping event. And for all three of these holidays the meaning is largely ignored. I didn’t want to just write the usual obligatory holiday article so I’ve decided make this about mindset. I intentionally made it two words because it's not really about the holiday. It's...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Overcoming The 3 D's Of Failure November 22, 2025 What causes failure? Can it be narrowed down to one cause? Usually not. I’ll present three causes here today. And in case you’re wondering, these are three causes of failure that I have had to deal with in my past and present adventures in business. 1. Dabbling- This is when you’re not fully committed to the business idea that you are pursuing. It sounds like something you would like to do or try. It’s fun and you think it will be a successful...
30 days ago • 2 min read
When Automations & Systems Don't Work November 15, 2025 The purpose of automations and systems is to reduce friction and make tasks easier. The idea is to reduce the work required to perform a task. If you can take a task normally performed by humans and either create a system to standardize how the task is performed or automate the task, your business should be more efficient and more productive, right? But…and this is a big but, the system or automation has to actually work as intended....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Who You Are Is Who You Attract November 7, 2025 As entrepreneurs and business owners there are many aspects to our lives and businesses we have to be aware of in order to achieve and maintain success and build our financial momentum. One of the most overlooked areas in your business is you. Or more specifically, knowing yourself. I know, it sounds very touchy feely. And I’m not a touchy feely kind of guy. But this is real and there is a financial return on knowing who you are. “Who you are is...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Real Estate That Is Also A Business October 31, 2025 Since this is the Halloween issue(Boo!) it was very tempting to write about creepy businesses (yes there are some). But with not enough time to research that topic I decided to go with this topic that might actually be helpful to some readers. Real estate has taken a turn in the last 5 years. Interest rates are high, prices are high, and sales are slow. I’m talking about commercial real estate of course. Rents are high but as long term...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
The Common Denominator October 25, 2025 One good thing about publishing your newsletter article 2 days late is that everyone knows it’s not an automated AI generated article that a subscription article platform spits out every seven days like the ones real estate agents use. So here we are, 2 days late with a human generated article that I hope you will find useful to your business. Almost Every Time I have noticed a very predictable pattern in most small businesses, specifically with...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Buying Your First Investment Property October 18, 2025 I'm in west Texas this week working on a commercial real estate/business listing. It got me to thinking about some of the past articles I've written on investing in properties. Below is an article that I published a year and a half ago. Since most subscribers came after that time, and since most have not seen this article I thought this would be a good time to revisit the topic. So, from May 2024, here is "Buying Your First Investment...
2 months ago • 4 min read