How to Market Your Small Family Business
How to Market Your Small Family Business If you’ve just started your small family business, or if you’re just considering it, the marketers who have your information DON’T want you to know some important secrets about how to market it well. Today,....png)
What kind of family business should you start?
What kind of family business should you start? Have you been asking yourself lately what kind of family business should you start? Today, I’m walking through some key things to ask yourself before getting too deep into the process. If you want to take full...
How to Keep the Conversation on Track in a Family Business
How to Keep the Conversation on Track in a Family Business Do you know how to keep the conversation on track in a family business? It’s difficult but attainable. Not only are there the emotional landmines of finances, performance issues, and too much coffee, but you...
Should I take over my family business or NAH?
Should I take over my family business or NAH? One of the questions I get asked all the time is, “Should I take over my family business?”Let me tell you; DON’T DO IT without thinking through these five things!Many different scenarios might cause you to be asking that...
This is Why Working With Family is So Hard
Working with family is hard because there's so many layers to what makes it work right and what can make it go wrong.
It might seem like a dream to work with family, until they decide they care a little more about profits than they do about cousin Jeb. Ouch! That Hurts!
I spent a huge part of my career working with family, so I have my own perspective on what makes it hard, but I also worked with a lot of family-owned businesses besides my own and got to see how many versions of how families make business work for them!