Alexander Interviews Jason Meyer, President of Hearth + Home
Alexander’s very first podcast. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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Your Urgency is Throttling your Business
This is going to sound like it’s coming from an old man standing on his porch yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn, but it needs to be said: all of you need to slow down and take a breath. I talk to a lot of business owners. And one common thing […]
Your Disorganisation is a Habit
The word “addiction” brings up an awful lot of nasty images: we tend to associate it with vices like drugs, alcohol, or gambling. But it can be a lot more benign than that. There are tons of people out there addicted to being disorganized. This can be particularly nasty, especially in business. And the worst […]
Trying to Have it All Leaves You With Nothing
The biggest threat to any business is the owner of that business. As entrepreneurs, we’ve already decided to tackle one of the most challenging things anyone could possibly do: build a business. For one reason or another, we’ve committed ourselves to take on accountability when so many people spend their lives desperately trying to avoid […]
POINT OF VONCURSION
You guys have heard me say before that dissatisfaction drives innovation. Well, I started off the day today dissatisfied with something: how can we turn our website traffic into customers? We started breaking down the problem and dove into a rabbit hole: what’s our single point of conversion? What does our funnel look like? What […]
Role Roulette
Happy Halloween, everyone. Take care to watch out for all the ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and other monsters wandering about today! Although, I have to admit that there’s one thing I find scarier than any monster: spending my time doing low-priority work. Sometimes that can be hard to distinguish. Like many business owners, I have so […]
Schedule or Suffer
There’s a limit to how much any of us can have in our heads at any given time. As businesses scale and get bigger, with more needing to get done, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the time to work on everything that needs your attention. After all, even if you’re getting new clients, you’re […]
Get a Daily Success Metric
Everyone (me included) wants to be able to know they did a good job. How do you get there? How can you know for certain, when you lay your head down to sleep at night, that you had a “successful” day? The answer to me is in measurement. You need to find something you can […]
There Can Only Be One
What are you working on right now? Actually, maybe I should ask what you’re SUPPOSED to be working on right now. If you’re reading this, you’re clearly not doing it. Here’s the thing, though. That’s okay. If your attention has brought you to this post, honor the fact that you’re distracted. That’s a sign that […]
Skip The Plan
Maybe your track record with goal-setting isn’t the greatest. It’s hard. It’s something you have to work at every day. Even if you miss a day, just get up and try again.
