Before we jump in: My friend Sahil Bloom wrote a new book called The 5 Types of Wealth. It's phenomenal. You should buy a copy here. -- People watch too much Shark Tank and think too much about entrepreneurship through a new-idea lens. This makes them delusional. If no one has succeeded before or if your business[...]

I see a funny trend with small business. Owners will spend $60k on a new truck or $10k on a family vacation at the drop of a hat. But they are running a multi-million company with a crappy website they paid somebody $2,000 to build. They don't understand that millions of dollars worth of business is deciding[...]

Customer service is a weak point of most service based businesses. Missed calls. Grumpy overworked employees or owners. Chain smoking unkept technicians. Unreliable. Over promising. Disappointing. Just answering the phone puts you ahead of most of your competitors in this space. But you can take it a step further[...]

Its a tale as old as time. A real estate investor makes their first real taste of money. They sponsored a deal and either sold it or refinanced it and made a million bucks. Maybe more. Maybe their net worth is suddenly $5 or $10 million and they are still young, energetic and hungry for more. What happens next? A[...]

Quick note before we dive in: I'm hosting several free online workshops over the next few weeks. ​ Should I buy a franchise? (Happening TODAY at 2:30pm EST) ​ Incentive Compensation 101 June 17th ​ CEO Bootcamp June 18th ​ Building offshore teams on July 1st ​ How to build a personal brand on July 15th ​ Business[...]

There is a proven playbook to grow companies. What tools to use, agencies to hire, strategies to employ. I’ve launched 9 companies in my life. 3 of them are fairly large. ​ Bolt Storage owns 2 million square feet of self storage and has 50 employees. ​ RE Cost Seg has done 6000+ cost seg studies and has 67[...]

I sat down with a mentor in Ithaca NY when I was a junior in college. I had just started Storage Squad. He had gotten wealthy off a sweaty startup. Foundation repair. And sold the company for 8 figures in 2007 before coming on as an entrepreneurship professor at Cornell is 2010. A great guy who is one of my[...]

Before we jump in: Do you run a business and need a new website? The team at WebRun is offering $1000 off plus a free brand book with the purchase of any custom website design and development package for the first 5 people who respond to this email. If you are interested, just reply to this email and I'll make a[...]