by Jason Long | Apr 4, 2019 | Management, Running a Business
A long time ago, my very financially successful grandfather told me that you can never really be friends with people you employ. For a long time I held to that and kept coworkers at an arms length. When I started my business many years ago all I had was the...
by Jason Long | Mar 17, 2019 | Running a Business
Stay On Top of Your Business We often, colloquially, say that we’re “in the business of [insert industry].” But there is a difference between being in the business and being on the business. This concept comes from a book called The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber, which I...
by Jason Long | Mar 17, 2019 | Management, Running a Business
Cultivate my laziness took me forever to learn. Jason Long You have likely heard this advice before, but the importance of being able to give work to other people is worth reiterating: You’ve got to give things to other people. When you’re running a business you need...
by Jason Long | Mar 12, 2019 | How To, Running a Business
Project Management Comes First Over the years we’ve figured out a few things that work very well for our weekly company meetings. I want to share those with you. We always start by looking at our main company KPIs. For us, this includes criteria like: How...
by Jason Long | Mar 8, 2019 | Management, Running a Business
Today, we’re going to address a common misconception that you’ll run into when dealing with your clients. This misconception is that work time and duration are the same things, or that there is a close correlation between the two. Let’s begin by...
by Jason Long | Mar 6, 2019 | Running a Business, Sales
Put that jacket back on!! It’s not what it sounds like! What is Selling Naked? The “naked” in the name of the technique doesn’t refer to your attire, at least most of the time. It means you are going in without any sales materials. That’s...
