Envision the business of your dreams, and build it

Before you can build the business of your dreams, you have to understand what you want out of it. To do that you need to understand what you like and don’t like, and then you need to understand the lifestyle you want to live (location, income, hours worked,...

10 Tips to Building a Successful and Sellable Service Business

Build your business from the ground up like you’re planning to sell it and you’ll make better longterm decisions, develop better processes, and be more likely to not try to do everything yourself (nobody wants to buy a job). Chances are, these same things...

4 Lessons Small Biz Can Take From Amazon & Whole Foods

With all the talk of the $13.7 billion cash deal for Amazon to buy Whole Foods, most people are just talking about it in relation to the retail industry and what it will mean for its future. I think small business owners should be looking at it to see what they might...

Take control of your business to take back your life

You didn’t start your business with dreams of working all the time doing stuff you hate and answering to a ton of bosses, better known as clients, who don’t understand what you do but want to tell you how to do it anyway. (whew – run-on sentence!)...