by Jason Long | Apr 3, 2020 | Clients, Contracts, How To, jhmg-export, Legal, Management, Running a Business
With most jobs, it’s simple: You work. You get paid. But when you’re running a business and doing client work, “simple” isn’t so simple. There are clients out there who would try to stiff you. Not many, but they do exist. And a lot of...
by Jason Long | Mar 12, 2020 | jhmg-export, Marketing, News, Sales
It’s time to let you all in on a secret: No element of our success is a secret. If you’ve been aware of our blog, our YouTube Channel, etc, for any length of time, then you know that the BrainLeaf team (and especially our Fearless Leader, Jason Long) is an...
by Jason Long | Feb 26, 2020 | blog, jhmg-export, Management, Marketing, Running a Business, Sales
Let’s start with the most basic of the fundamentals: The goal of a business is to provide a product or service in exchange for money, optimally taking in more money than it costs to provide the good or service (you know…making a profit). In pursuit of...
by Jason Long | Nov 8, 2019 | How To, jhmg-export, Scoping
How far off are you on your estimates? Ten percent? Fifty percent? Two-hundred percent? Do you know? I remember the last straw for me before we started building BrainLeaf. A developer had given us an estimate of 50 hours to complete a feature set, but 400 hours later...
by Jason Long | Aug 18, 2019 | Clients, jhmg-export, Sales
Feasibility Feasibility is in many ways the same thing as validation. If you’re a developer or development team member that is being hired to do a SaaS project, here is a word of advice; make sure that the project has a high probability of a positive outcome....
by Jason Long | Mar 17, 2019 | jhmg-export, Management
One Simple Phrase to Run and Grow Your Business “You can’t expect unless you inspect.” This simple phrase carries a lot of weight. Understanding it, and implementing it, can be a key to growth and management success. This means that when you assign...
