You’ve taken the time and gone to the expense of hiring people in order to create leverage in your business—that’s the good news. The question is, “How can you maximize that leverage?” Well, as you’ve probably already discovered, there are a number of factors that influence how your employees perform. For example, if morale is […]

When you get up in the morning, what do you focus on? When you arrive at work, what do you focus on? As you’re going through your day, what do you focus on? As you look at your week, what do you focus on? If you’re like most of the business owners and entrepreneurs I’ve […]

As hard as you work, doesn’t it make sense that you ought to be able to bring home as much money as possible? Absolutely. It’s one of the primary reasons why people like you and me start businesses. Yes, we start them to make a difference, to solve a problem, employ people, support our communities, […]

Whenever you’re confronted with a problem (which should be everyday), what’s the first step you take in trying to solve it? My guess is that your first thought was, “I’m not sure I have a process.” And if that’s what you were thinking, you’re pretty normal. The vast majority of people, including business owners, entrepreneurs […]

When you start your day, how do you think you should go about doing your job as “the boss”? If you’re like most business owners and/or entrepreneurs, chances are you don’t have a rubric or framework for your day, you just go at it. When you have 639 items on your to do list, who […]

If you want to build your business into an Inc 500 company (or if you simply want to build a great company) then you’re going to want to listen to this week’s interview with Ben Landers. Ben is the CEO of Blue Corona, a data-driven online marketing and analytics company located in Gaithersburg, MD (outside […]

If you want to create products that people love, you’ll want to listen to this wide-ranging interview that I had with Mark Richards—a philosophy and political science major who’s become a serial entrepreneur. Mark has a passion for developing unique products and services—as witnessed by the fact that he’s started over a dozen diverse businesses over the past […]

Ever get stuck trying to figure everything out before launching a new product, service or company? Well, if you have, you’re going to enjoy this interview with Gray Somerville—especially the story about how his company got started. It’s really pretty funny! Gray is the co-founder of Telogical Systems, a company he and his business partner, […]

Ever wonder why some business seem to take off faster than others? Well, serial entrepreneur, Patrick Bryant has some ideas about that. Patrick is the co-founder of GoToTeam, which he started in 1997 with an SBA loan that is now the largest staff broadcast video crew company in the US where they provide video for […]

If you’ve ever thought about wanting to sell your business, you’re going to want to watch this interview I did for the Wired To Grow Show with Aaron Ghais, a Mergers and Acquisitions Attorney with the law firm of Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker located in Potomac, Maryland (just outside of Washington, DC). In […]