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There’s nothing worse than sweating out payroll…

There’s nothing that makes me feel more like a failure than when I don’t know if I’m going to have the cash to cover payroll.  Vendors can wait, you can negotiate with bankers, even landlords will give you some leeway. But when your payroll is late you are affecting the lives and families of your…

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My business used to be so simple, and now it’s gotten so complicated.

My client called because he was going to have to skip his paycheck this week. Something that hadn’t happened in a long time.  “Brad, I used to be able to keep track of my business in one spreadsheet. I had my pipeline on one tab, and my income on another tab and my expenses on…

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“Why is common sense so hard to find?” says every business owner, at some point.

I usually hear this from clients right after they hire a new person. “I’m pulling my hair out! After spending three months interviewing candidates, and checking references, I thought this person was going to be PERFECT for this job.” “But it’s their first week and every single thing they’ve done has been messed up…and it’s…

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Do you want to do this the easy way, or the hard way?

“Sure, Brad, this mastermind thing sounds great. But I can just get 4 business owner friends together and make my own Mastermind…” Six months ago I was talking to a business owner about how much she needed to make changes in her business. She realized that time was running out. Her lead generation efforts were…

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Are you driving with your eye on the end of the hood?

When I learned to drive, we watched a series of videos that taught us some simple “rules” for good drivers. One of those rules was “Aim high when driving.” The instructor was trying to keep us from looking right at the end of the car instead of watching further down the road and trusting that the…