Category: Links of Interest
What is your business in service of?
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It started as a bit of a throw away comment on a run as I saw the mountains. I don’t run the roads or do hill repeats just to be a faster runner. I don’t do it to ‘win’ the ultramarathon I’ve got on the calendar. I do it so I can move fast in…
How Brent Weaver uses a 35 hour a week constraint to grow his business
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Today we talk to Brent Weaver from ugurus.com about how he runs a business. We talk about his 35 hour rule and how that shows itself in his business and how he uses the constraint of 35 hours to help grow the capacity of his business. The show ends with some banter at the beginning…
Are you profitable? Are you paying yourself market rates?
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Despite having the best year financially in my business last year, it felt like the hardest. Today I’m going to talk about some of the changes I’m making in 2017 to make my business way more profitable. Hear the Digital Agency Show where they talk about paying yourself market rates and how profitable you are.
Don’t fool yourself, it’s a long hard road to a successful business
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Don’t fool yourself in to thinking that you can start a business with anything but a lot of work. It’s a long hard road to start a business and keep it successful. Today I talk about that work in the context of running and the years it takes to really hit your peak.
Sometimes there are consequences when you choose family instead of work
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If you’re winning at business and ruining your family, kids, spouse, partner, or relationships you’re still failing. Today I’m talking about a real life example where I picked my family and our house rules. Someone was mad at me and called me a bunch of not so nice names. They said they looked forward to…
Can you do your job?
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Today we’re going to talk about what you really mean when you tell a client “That can’t be done”. Far to many business owners aren’t really saying that the task can’t be done. They’re saying something else entirely.
Why you may not want to say sorry
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Many times saying sorry is more about you feeling better than actually resolving things with your clients. Today I’ll talk about what I think you should be doing.
How family and business work together
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Don’t fool yourself, your work and your family are not separate. They’re especially not separate if you run your own business. Today my wife and I talk about how we work out running a business together.
Should you just start a business out of school?
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So you’re just about finished and ready to head in to the big world of work. Should you dive right in and start a business?
Why productive people embrace constraints
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The biggest problem with digital tools is their lack of constraints. If you use OmniFocus you can put 10,000 things in your inbox. It gets to a point where you never look because you know there is so much there you never want to see. Today I’m going to talk about how I embrace paper…
