Days Become Minutes October 4, 2025 As you might already be aware, I write my newsletters myself without the aid of AI. You may have noticed my “Written By Humans” logo at the top of each article. However, writing ad copy and marketing materials is another matter entirely. I’m not the best at that type of writing and it takes me probably 10 times longer than the average copywriter to make an adequate piece of ad content. But lately when it comes to creating marketing content I’ve been able to...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Are You A BOBO? September 26, 2025 Does this sound familiar? You feel like you and your business are stuck. You are exhausted, frustrated, and overwhelmed. There’s too much chaos in your business and with your team. You, your team, and your business are underperforming. Your personal relationships are strained because you’re at work all the time, even when you’re not at work. You aren’t sleeping well and you are irritable. You my friend are on the road to burnout. So what in the world is a...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Ask September 19, 2025 There are a lot of opportunities out there for anyone wanting to own a business. And in my world a business can also be owning real estate. So here’s what I’ve learned from twenty years of real estate and business transactions. There’s one important thing that most would be owners fail to do. Ask For The Deal If you want a better price? Ask for it. Want to push the closing date out 30 more days? Ask for it. Want the seller to finance the deal for you? Ask! If you don’t...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Delegation Paradox: Yet Another Angle On An Old Topic September 13, 2025 Lonely Leader When doing research on this topic I realized there are dozens of articles written with the words “Delegation Paradox” in the title. And when I mentioned that to my wife, in a kind of complaining way, she of course had a quick answer: “Yes but you haven’t written about it yet.” So here we are. As business owners we seem to have a compulsion to try do everything ourselves and never trust anyone else with our...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Seller Financing Revolution: Why Is It Becoming More Common? September 6, 2025 Huge Opportunity Three million businesses for sale. Baby boomer business owners need to exit but can’t. The sad truth is that 70 to 90% of those businesses will never sell. Seller financing might be the only way they will get their business sold. Why? Most buyers who would normally have an interest in buying one of these businesses don’t have enough cash for a purchase. Banks that would normally make loans for a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Your Customers August 30, 2025 Who are your customers? Do you value them as customers? As people? I guess the big question is- Do you know them? Most business owners think they know their customers because they did the market research when they started their company to identify their ideal customer. But as a business grows and evolves, their ideal customer changes. They are growing and evolving too. Here’s the problem. In a world where we value automation and buying back our time, both good...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Is A Vacation Wasting Time? August 23, 2025 This week I am sharing this article written by my favorite guest writer- my wife Ericka. This is from her weekly newsletter Leadership Mastermind. If you would like to subscribe to her newsletter (I recommend it!) reply to this email and let me know. I'll add you to her email list. Are You Running On Empty? Have you ever tried to pour from an empty cup? Of course not - it’s impossible. But in leadership, many of us try to do just that. We push...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Best Lemonade Stand Ever! August 16, 2025 The Jones Family Lemonade Stand One weekend recently my wife and I were leaving to go shopping when we noticed a lemonade stand on the way out of our neighborhood. Whenever kids in our neighborhood have a stand selling things we always try to stop and buy something. We enjoy encouraging entrepreneurship in kids. But this one was different. This was the Jones family lemonade stand and it was the best lemonade stand we’ve ever seen. It was well planned,...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
The Leader Mindset August 9, 2025 If you’re a business owner you’ve probably struggled with letting go. We all have at one point or another. We tend to think we are the only ones who can do the important tasks that need to be done in the company. We don’t trust anyone else to do the work so we end up doing everything ourselves. You would think in a company with 10 or 12 employees there would be someone who can handle the bookkeeping. There would be someone who can do the marketing. Someone...
2 months ago • 1 min read