Back in 1998 my call center company, Appletree Answers, was an absolute disaster. Started in 1995 it was only 3 years old at the time, but I was struggling to make payroll, was living on a twin bed at the office, and sleep deprived at a level I can’t even fathom...
John Ratliff, Founder of the align5 Companies, CEO of Scaling Up Coaches, and an overall Serial Entrepreneur and Pilot was honored to be a guest on The Beer Mighty Podcast hosted by Kyle Rheiner. They discussed John’s first business as a kid, entrepreneurship,...
A few weeks ago I wrote about how lonely it can be as an entrepreneur. I had a surprisingly large number of people reach out and share their own stories, and the theme was pretty consistent… “I just don’t have anyone to talk to”. It confirmed my story and what I was...
I said in a previous email the single most important habit we had at Appletree, the call center company I built, to scale our business was the daily huddle. What I want to share today may be the second most important. In fact, it might even be 1a important. The Weekly...
Often times when I’m talking with entrepreneurs, they are in the throes of business success BUT are also using heroic efforts to achieve their results. They are motivated by the success but exhausted by the energy being expended to reach those results. How many of you...
