When you own a business you get to be the top dog, things run “your way,” and you get to decide what you want to do, when you want to work, everything about your business is yours to decide. It also means that when things go wrong, it’s your fault. When your team members drop…
When I as in Jr High, I started buying bikes at garage sales. I had a paper route, so I had a little money, but not too much. So most of the bikes I bought were non-functional. I started cannibalizing parts from one bike to make another bike work. I could generally make one “franken-bike”…
There’s a lot of stress and fear right now. I feel the anxiety in every call! Where have all the clients gone? How long will this last like this? What’s next? No matter how successful your business was eight weeks ago, you’re going to have to make changes this year. You can do it out…
I’ll be honest with you; for about a year, I told myself that I was going to do video. I think we’re at the point where we all realize video is something that you need to have as part of your marketing mix. It’s not optional anymore. It’s not that I wasn’t committed to it….
“When are you going to stop treating your body like a rental car?” When my coach said that to me a few years ago, it stopped me dead in my tracks. “What do you mean, treat my body like a rental car?” “You only have one body, Brad. You can’t just turn it in at…
Planning for the future right now is extraordinarily difficult. We know that unemployment is at record high levels. High unemployment is a signal the economy is going to tank. When consumer spending drops significantly (like when lots of folks lose their jobs), the consumer companies get hit first, but pretty soon the whole economy suffers. Worse…
It looks like the US will be reopening slowly, perhaps county by county, but the fact is that where ever you are, your business will eventually get the chance to resume working in the office. When that chance comes, what will you do? At this point, my assumption about the “Level 1” opening is that…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some anxious conversations with business owners who are looking at their workload, and their staff and wondering, “Do I need to make some cuts?” To answer that question, we need to have a solid look at your finances, and a point-of-view about what the future holds. How…
I had been getting anxious emails from one of my clients for a couple of days. Each day the anxiety seemed to be getting higher and higher. She was worried about the future of her business. (Aren’t we all!) It seemed like every night she’d wake up, and her mind imagined another doomsday scenario that…
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked. ~ Warren Buffett What’s going on right now is not a test, but it is showing you what’s not working. If you step back from the crisis a couple of paces and look at your business overall, the stress of…