Business

Last week, I sent out an email talking about how every person out there in the world should have a business that makes them a whopping… $Zero$ Yes, $0. Zero dollars. Zilch. Nada. I got some good responses from that: “If more people knew what wonders that can be done via accounting, they’d be surprised […]

Reader G (who is a G, too) wrote back to yesterday’s email and commented about building skills, which is something everyone should be doing: His comment: “Very spot on my friend. Once you have marketable skills, you can always use them to do something else.” Let’s expand on this in terms of marketing (namely, marketing and […]

If there’s one mantra I’ve always lived by in the business world (and you should too), it’s this: Make it a normal thing to fire clients and customers who are cheap. The energy they take is time that you can never get back. Better yet… Filter them hard, and don’t even let these people in […]

Good, reliable talent is very difficult to find when growing and scaling a business. After running my agency for nearly 2 years, here is a value-packed email on the 11 mistakes I’ve seen people make time and time again when it comes to hiring: 1. Not Respecting Candidates Everybody is complaining that good talent is […]

In 2018, I moved from Prague, Czech Republic, where I’d been hanging out for a year or so, and moved, more or less permanently, to Kyiv, Ukraine. In a nutshell, the (now) Mrs. Trouble and I moved back to her country for a variety of reasons. Visa issues were becoming problematic in the Czech Republic, […]