WI added 2,500 new subscribers last week from this post . If you came from it and you're looking for my list of 200+ business ideas, you can find that here . A quick sponsored note before we jump in: Tax season is right around the corner - DO NOT FORGET TO GET COST SEGREGATION STUDIES DONE ON YOUR REAL ESTATE.[...]

From 2013-2017 my partner and I rented a small apartment in Boston as our company "office" and went there very day with our employees. We were still very hands on and we were most productive together. It was a scrappy time where we really accomplished a lot to set us up for the success we enjoy now. I switched[...]

Doing this while you have a full time job is the perfect way to start. More on that here . Step 1: Do a quick and dirty market study - start searching and calling competitors. Use trends.google.com to find out which company in your town is the largest (most search volume) and study them. Are they doing digital[...]

I’ve bought over $100 million worth of self storage. It took looking at over 5,000 deals to get it done. What I'm about to tell you is not a full underwriting process. It is not comprehensive. This is the back-of-the-napkin work I do to see if a deal is worth spending more time on. You'll learn really quick in[...]

So you have a . Your new business must provide a service either faster, better or cheaper to carve out a slice of the pie and be successful. So your market analysis needs to be a deep look at the main companies offering the same service you plan to offer in your area considering these three criteria:[...]

I haven't been as active on here lately. As some of you know Dan and I are doing big things right now. We're closing on the big self storage facility refinance in about 2 weeks and will be pulling out about $2.1MM in equity in the form of cash. We were considering selling the property after we got a nice offer[...]

Starbucks spent 10 years spending big money each year, I’m guessing 10s of millions of dollars, getting followers on Facebook. The plan was simple. The goal was to get followers and then reach them organically and drive value over time. Right now they have 36 million followers on Facebook. Well it turns out[...]

How much money does a lawn care company make? This full time owner with a part time employee generated over $100,000 in revenue and $70,000 in profit working 54 hours per week for 32 weeks over the summer. AND he graduated from a top 15 business school in the middle of his busiest month. Impressive! Andrew Huber,[...]