How can you tell when your business is moving the right direction, or the wrong direction? Is it gut? Or maybe a better question with some real dollars to it, what happens if you have a shift in cash of $10,000, would you notice? Seth...
Do you have a great product? Well Shopify.com is asking you to prove it. Shopify is holding its 3rd Build-A-Business competition with the grand prize being $50,000 and mentoring from some of the best: Daymond John (FUBU), Tim Ferris, Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Eric Ries. All...
I was immediately intrigued by an online article in Fast Company by Laura Vanderkam titled, "What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast." I tend to be an early bird and I've often tinkered with my morning rituals. I like to think you can get...
We're a fairly technologically savvy company. We're pretty much all "in the cloud", many of our employees work from home, and we really don't use a paper filing cabinet. If there's a new technology that makes us or our partners more efficient, we're likely to...
Depending upon who you ask, I'm finding that perspectives differ on whether or not the U.S. is still in a recession. If you were to pose this question to your average unemployed person or a home builder in Florida, they would probably tell you assuredly...
I am about to do something I have never done before: Go on vacation and NOT check email. I'm going to totally unplug and leave work in Knoxville. As a business owner this is difficult to do. It requires trust. Trust in the people you've hired....
I love the end of the month. I love the anticipation of reviewing the financials. I love seeing if the decisions we have made are creating positive changes in our business. What about you? Financial reports must be functional. If a CPA created them but you...
At Two Roads, we're BIG on planning, goal setting, and thinking about the future. In January, this is something I get pretty excited about. Around May and the months following, my desire to achieve my goals tends to lose a little steam. It's as though...
For some this is brand new, for others it's old hat. In either case it's GOLD! David Allen, in his book "Getting Things Done", provides this very helpful diagram for emptying the ol' inbox. This will change everything...
I am reading a book by Eric Reis right now called The Lean Startup, and the most recent chapter I came to was on "innovative accounting". It was encouraging in one sense because I think we practice a lot of what he talks about. But...
