Your Obsession with CRMs Is Killing Your Growth (and Your Sanity)
Why a $120/user/month tool won’t fix your broken sales engine—and what to do instead You closed another $37k deal yesterday. Revenue is climbing—$1.2M, $3M, maybe $8M this year. But growth feels like wading through cement. Deals stall. Forecasts are fiction. Your sales team mutters in Slack:
Read MoreGrowth Killers: The $500k/year Trap Hiding in Your “Free” Trello & Asana Accounts (And How to Escape)
You’re drowning in sticky notes, Slack is a black hole of requests, and your team feels perpetually scattered. Growth is happening – revenue is climbing past $3M, $5M, maybe $8M – but instead of excitement, you feel a creeping dread. The chaos is winning. So, you
Read MoreWhy You Can’t Buy a Business Until You Have These 3 People on Your Team
So, you wanna buy a business? Cool. But hold up—let me tell you why you might be setting yourself up for a disaster. “The Numbers Looked Good… But I Had to Stop Him” Last week, I chatted with a buddy who runs a marketing agency. He
Read MoreSeller’s Discretionary Earnings (SDE): The Small Business Owner’s Secret Weapon for Selling Your Business
So, you’re thinking about selling your business. Exciting, right? But before you slap a price tag on your life’s work, there’s one thing you need to understand: Seller’s Discretionary Earnings (SDE). If you’ve never heard of SDE, don’t sweat it. By the end of this guide,
Read MoreWhy Hustle Breaks Your Business (And How to Fix It by Scaling Your “OS”)
Most businesses don’t fail because the founder was lazy. They fail because the founder kept treating their business like a rusty old pickup truck when it needed to become a bullet train. Here’s the dirty secret nobody tells you: Hustle is the worst kind of drug
Read MoreStop Begging for Deals: How Saying ‘No’ Can Actually Scale Your Business
“Sure, we can do net 90 terms!”“Of course, we’ll drop the price!”“Custom contract? No problem!” …Said every struggling business owner right before their company became a hot mess. Here’s the truth: Giving in to every customer demand doesn’t make you flexible—it makes you desperate. And desperation?
Read MoreBusiness Valuation Decoded: 7 Numbers That Skyrocket Your Company’s Worth
Welcome to the Golden Age of Entrepreneurship… Where Numbers Rule We’re living in a time where anyone with a laptop and a dream can launch a business. But here’s the kicker: 50% of startups die before their 5th birthday. Why? Because they ignored the numbers. And
Read MoreSlow Growth, Big Wins: 7 Tricks to Turn Your Business Scale into Investor Candy
Slow Growth, Big Wins: 7 Tricks to Turn Your Business Scale into Investor Candy Imagine your business is a rocket. Right now, you’re taxiing on the runway—not exactly thrilling, right? But what if I told you that slow, steady taxiing is how rockets avoid exploding? Investors
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