As a business owner, one of the most significant challenges you’ll face on your journey to success is assembling a team of individuals who can capture your vision and help you execute it as you’ve imagined. These team members must not only embrace your vision but also possess the skills and dedication necessary to bring that vision to life. This task goes beyond merely hiring…
Creating an environment that fosters Innovation can be difficult. Many corporate offices and structures tend to stifle creativity rather than promote it. But fostering creativity and promoting innovation can be incredibly beneficial to business owners. Creativity and innovation in the workplace lead to better products, improved processes, higher revenues, and greater employee satisfaction. Innovation Defined Innovation is the process of creating something new or improving…
When I started my first company, I had no idea what I was doing. I winged it every step of the way, every day. Finally, I got smart and started reading. I learned a lot about building a successful business from the likes of Jim Collins, John C. Maxwell, and Seth Godin. That, combined with the knowledge and experience I picked up along the way,…
Do you struggle with motivating your employees? Many business owners do. They find themselves thinking on a particularly frustrating day, “The business would grow and prosper if only my employees would do what I want them to do.” Instead, you find them chatting in the halls, taking long lunches, and acting busy while not really accomplishing anything. That’s if you find them at all. Some…
Do you have a way of collecting customer testimonials and reviews from your customers? If not, you should. Online reviews may be more critical to your business success than you think. Gone are the days of casual shopping. Yes, specialty boutiques still pop up in both large cities and small towns, providing an interesting diversion for those with time on their hands. But for everyday…
Has anyone else noticed that the overall quality of the goods and services we’re purchasing has dropped in the past year? Hotels that previously offered free breakfasts now don’t. They don’t provide room cleaning for guests staying more than one night, either. Some hotels don’t even have coffee makers in their rooms anymore. Meal portions look smaller in our favorite restaurants, and wait times are…
In February, I had the opportunity to talk to 7,000 conference attendees at Win the Storm, the nation’s largest roofing, restoration, and solar conference in Dallas, TX. Since I’d also just been recognized as a Comeback Kid (an award that goes to roofing contractors who have rebuilt their businesses after experiencing extreme setbacks or hardships), I decided to tell the audience a little about my…
When you made the decision to start your business, how many people did you have on your team? If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you probably had only one: yourself. If you were lucky, you might also have had supportive partners (aka a spouse, children, parents, and friends) who cheered you on from the sidelines. If the stars really lined up for you, you were able…
Building entrepreneurial success is not easy. If it was, everyone would do it. And unfortunately, there is no single key to success when building your own business. Finding success as an entrepreneur comes from a culmination of different lessons, values, and hard work ethic. And while everyone’s journey will inevitably be different, there are a few constants. Here are a few of those lessons that…
If you’re an entrepreneur by trade, you probably cringe at the term “work-life balance.” Not because you don’t agree that it’s important, but probably because it seems so painfully out of reach for you and your lifestyle. Entrepreneurs can be guilty of thinking that if you’re not investing as many hours as possible, you aren’t doing everything in your power to make your business succeed….
Spring is finally here. With flowers and trees budding all around us, I thought maybe it was time to talk a little bit about growing things, specifically, how to grow a business. During my journey over the past five years, I’ve been able to grow my roofing business significantly in spite of what some might think of as major setbacks. Any of you can do…
There are several lessons to be learned from the coronavirus pandemic. One of the most impactful, in my opinion, is that it’s never good to take things for granted. When you take things, people, or situations for granted — assuming they’ll always be there, no matter what — you devalue them. Then when they’re gone, it’s a blow that’s hard to recover from. Time to…
With Halloween fast approaching and ghouls and goblins popping up everywhere, it seems like a good time to talk about what scares you. If you’re an entrepreneur, there’s a good chance that you have a whole list of items that strike fear at your very core – regardless of how long you’ve been in business. And this year has been an exceptionally scary one for…
If you’ve ever launched a product or service, you know that it’s no small feat to get it off the ground. Coming up with the business concept, obtaining funding (or pulling together your own resources), developing a prototype or basic service to start with, putting together a sales and marketing plan, and timing the whole thing so that it launches at the most optimum time…