Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But… If I’m constantly working in my business, what does that tell you? When I found that I was burnt out and missing out on time with my health, growing kids, aging parents, and heck, even my marriage, I knew I had to make some changes. Look, there’s a time to hustle, but not as an overall culture. I still love to work.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

How, for the first time, smaller businesses can harness the power of big data to more efficiently and profitably manage their companies. The first point is that for the vast majority of small businesses “getting lost” in the data is the least of their concerns. Some readers expressed skepticism that this "stuff" actually works.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

” But we also knew that most Fortune 500 M&A transactions aren’t at unicorn levels (actually well sub-$250m), so we advise founders to not over-raise capital until they’re using it to fund profitable growth (or a clear path to profitability). .” So, is it true? Lowest Level – Buying Talent.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that’s what entrepreneurs and business leaders have been doing. But if you provide your team with an unbeatable quality of life in and out of work, you will keep the best talent, and they will make your business thrive and increase your profitability. If you don’t have one for everyone in your business, create one now.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Involved across a variety of commercial and non-profit efforts, he’s quick to volunteer his help and always lives up to his words. If someone just looked at your resume, what narrative do you think it tells? Fortunate for me, the collaboration of our friendship has been more enduring. Jeff Berman: Well it certainly seems random.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Since 2006, I’ve been learning how to combine passion, purpose, people, and profits. If you focus on the end game of creating value, serving people, scaling smart, and driving profits, you are eons ahead of everyone. Focus on what you get done day by day that drives revenue. It is not for the faint of heart. Pick a name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

1:55] What does Podcast Movement look like today? [3:26] 3:26] What’s been your history, and how did you get into podcasting? [5:12] 11:31] What you’ve seen people doing to make podcast guesting just as effective as podcast hosting? [11:31] 20:54] What’s your current podcast setup? [22:52]

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2020

by Rizwan Virk, author of “ Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School “ Now that almost everyone is working from home, startup founders looking to raise money from investors will need to do so remotely. So, what do I mean by the story? We’re making quite a bit of profit. ER: Nodding.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What would you do in his shoes? In the torrent of real and fake news, what’s his competitive edge other than name recognition? Will his digital presence measurably affect sales of his newest book What Unites Us ? What happens to his digital property when he passes? What happens to his digital property when he passes?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

What do you think happened? What you deem as success creates an incentive for an individual employee, the group/division, your company’s partners, to behave in a certain way. A story where data is the hero, followed by two mind-challenging business-shifting ideas. You’ll be surprised how small that number is. They hurt ACT, and comp.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 26, 2020

But you can accomplish both survival (heck, thriving) and impact – even during a pandemic. So let’s recap what I have been posting about: Using The Business Hierarchy of Needs (The BHN) is the key to the success of your business right now. The same is true for me. I wanted (and still want) to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

That includes abstaining from water, despite the 95-degree heat.) ”What’s the problem?” Never mind that tourists of all nationalities, sizes and colors streamed past us carrying similarly weighty “prosumer” equipment.). Tempers flared, fueled by the unrelenting midday sun. (It every day for a month.

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The Next Web

JULY 30, 2014

His new book, Creativity For Sale, is an in-depth look at how to turn passion into profit. You have an idea, now what? For many of us, it’s not coming up with an idea that’s the hard part, it’s what the heck to do next. For many of us, it’s not coming up with an idea that’s the hard part, it’s what the heck to do next.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The real job of a leader is to ensure the organization aligns with what the team is looking to achieve personally with what the company is looking to do. . Because a good leader knows that the happier and more supported employees are, the more profitable a business will be. I know, shocking, right?). The team. .

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 15, 2021

Building my first two businesses taught me that the only way to get in front of the people who need you is to master marketing, and that has nothing to do with mastering an actual marketing plan. Any marketing plan is just fiction if you can’t get prospects’ attention in the first place. And what about more tactile marketing?

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Social media is about connecting with the people in your niche: customers, potential customers, people who are interested in what you do, or who share similar interests and circles or hubs with you. Let the public know what you’re an expert at and use that to boost your credibility and value. Social Media Marketing Strategies.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Literally, from one of my rehearsal spots where I was rehearsing keynotes on Profit First and Pumpkin Plan. . While this is true, each keynote is tailored to a new audience and what serves their specific needs. As a small business owner, the best thing you can do to scale your company is master what you’re good at.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Questions I ask Barry McCarthy: [1:21] What were you trying to convey with the word ‘revolution’ in the title of your book? [3:56] 7:08] What has gotten harder for small businesses in the last decade? [7:08] 7:08] What has gotten harder for small businesses in the last decade? [8:27] What’s your advice? [16:29]

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

After all, I proudly wore my super hero cape through fifteen years of risk taking, innovating, stumbling and expanding before selling my business in 2012 for a very nice profit. For the last several years, I’ve been on the other side, dutifully studying what entrepreneurs actually do from a practical and academic perspective.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What To Know Before Starting A Podcast written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 1:55] What does Podcast Movement look like today? [3:26] 3:26] What’s been your history, and how did you get into podcasting? [5:12] 18:44] What’s the best starter setup for somebody who wants to get going on a podcast?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she had access to entities with inorganic intelligence, it truly jumped the shark in 2016. Primarily because we got our first real everyday access to products and services that used some form of AI to delight us.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

Now that our seed fund Homebrew has past its first anniversary , people often ask what has surprised me during my year as a VC, or what am I liking/disliking about my new profession. ” Sourcing feedback from LPs, VCs and entrepreneurs, here’s some of what I heard, and the implications: 1.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The first part of the equation, for better or for worse, improves in an evolutionary manner. The first part of the equation, for better or for worse, improves in an evolutionary manner. Wait, Wait, What the Heck is Attribution? Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But, the good news is, if all these people could start a brewery, then you can too—as long as you know what you’re getting into and have a solid business plan for your brewery. It’s a messy, convoluted job full of twists, turns, delays, setbacks, and surprises—but it’s also one heck of a ride.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

As we have all learned, tools matter a lot less than what we do with the tool. :). 5: What-if Analysis Models. Take time to really understand what’s going on, go to the site, play, look at the higher resolution versions (click on the images), make notes of what you’ll do for the first time or change about what you already do.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 23, 2019

What is the best way to create a loyal customer base, and therefore a more profitable business? How else will you know what their expectations are? You have to create a relationship with them to identify what their demands are – and fulfill them before they even know what they wanted. Exceed expectations.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 15, 2010

A particularly revelatory component of Ridley’s analysis revolves around what the real process of innovation is and what it is NOT. Ridley first points to what innovation is NOT. Heck, even the Wikipedia entry re the program’s scientific and engineering legacy is a scant 3 sentences. It is NOT Government Research.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. And, then I started to redefine what daily, weekly and monthly even means. You are doing i am wasting earth's precious oxygenalytics. Let's back up.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 16, 2019

First, you want to ask yourself, every 90 days, “What’s working?” Is there one service or product you have that is bringing in the nicest profits? Once you identify what is working, you now need to amplify it. You need to think about, plan on, and simply start doing more of what is working. No exercise?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The first two are from editions of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect (it goes out weekly, and is now my primary publishing channel, sign up!). The Next Career Plan: Prepping For An AI-First World. There is never a boring moment, there is never time when you can’t do something faster or smarter. The answer was, yes.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2016

More often than not though I’ve had sometimes long stretches where I mostly just felt a bit stuck – not going anywhere exciting and not knowing what my next move should be – only that I should move. Sure, I do want to save the world and the whales, but sometimes I have trouble aligning that with what I do day to day.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “ We put the customer first. The fact is, we’re so concerned with bottom lines, profit margins, and paying the bills (at work and at home!) that we instinctively put ourselves first. that we instinctively put ourselves first. I should know.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

What he didn’t realize at the time was that this wasn’t how the people that attended art galleries wanted things to work. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores. The old model wasn’t broken.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the early 1980’s that they formed Silicon Valley’s first lobbying group. Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 19, 2012

So, what is it and what does it mean for small business. tsuda via Flickr CC The “what is it” part is pretty easy to explain in textbook terms, but the hype that’s currently surrounding the idea makes it much harder to bring down to practical application. So, what is it and what does it mean for small business.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). I've expressed it often. :). The primary reason is simple: You are unique. Your business is unique. Why would a report created for everyone work for the special someone that you are? Seven more!

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. What about you? I think that’s the starting point for most businesses is that things like the bank lending space, the what is the SBA and how are they here to help me? Our Thoughts on the Apple Watch.

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