How Small Business Owners Break the Cycle of Constantly Doing the Work Part 1!
Are you feeling burned out and ready to throw in the towel? While it makes sense that you must do everything when you start, it's not...
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Jacob Curtis
- Sep 18
- 6 min
How to Use Your Team Without Abusing Them
The first articles written about Amazon told about this guy who moved to Bellvue, Washington, to open an online bookstore. Google a young...
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Jacob Curtis
- Sep 11
- 8 min
Copy the Bees to Scale Your Business
Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring and giving you the steps to growing and scaling your quilt shop. As you may recall, there...
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Jacob Curtis
- Sep 4
- 5 min
What is your Big Promise?
Traditional wisdom says that you need to “pivot” to serve your customers. It used to be “inflection point.” Before that, “paradigm...
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Jacob Curtis
- Aug 28
- 5 min
A Simple Shortcut to Attract More Great Customers
Imagine that you have created a new sport. It's a blend of croquet, sailing, and curling. You call it Muddle, and it is going to be huge!...
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Jacob Curtis
- Aug 21
- 6 min
How to Escape from Your Jail-Cell Store
Do you feel shackled to your business? Are you the CEO–chief everything officer? Do you think to yourself, “Just one more day and soon...
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Jacob Curtis
- Aug 14
- 29 min
Podcast with Like Sew
Transcript: [00:00:00] Spencer: Okay, well welcome to the Quilt Shop Podcast. I have Jacob Curtis here with me from Nashville, Tennessee....
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Jacob Curtis
- Aug 7
- 6 min
How to Get Off the Struggle Bus
Suppose you are out in the forest and come across someone working feverishly to cut down a tree with a saw. "You look exhausted," you...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jul 31
- 5 min
How 1+1=4
When Sir Winston Churchill was called upon to head up the war effort for Great Britain, he remarked that all his life had prepared him...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jul 24
- 7 min
How to avoid frustration with your team
Suppose you've been having trouble with your eyes lately and decide to see an optometrist for help. After briefly listening to your...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jul 10
- 7 min
How to Avoid the Frustrations of Working with People
Imagine you are in your garden. It's beautiful! Bright colors everywhere! The roses are brilliantly red. The corn stalks are tall and...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jun 26
- 7 min
How to Put First Things First
Take a moment and write down one thing you're currently not doing that, if you did consistently, would positively impact your life. Just...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jun 19
- 6 min
Begin with the end in mind
Imagine you are at your funeral. You see the flowers and can hear the soft music. You see all your family, friends, employees, and...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jun 12
- 6 min
The first habit of highly effective people
Close your eyes and project your consciousness up into the corner of the room, in your mind’s eye. Imagine you are someone else watching...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jun 5
- 3 min
How to know if you are successful
How do you know if you are successful? Or how do you become successful? Stephen R. Covey in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 29
- 6 min
How to avoid the vicious, negative cash-flow cycle
True or false: The only way to start and run a quilt shop is with debt. The answer is false. But if you’re like many other business...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 22
- 3 min
3 Financial Duties
Did you know that one of the top reasons for businesses failing is financial problems? They mismanage their money somehow and it results...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 15
- 3 min
3 Tips to managing your cash flow!
What’s your system for managing cash flow in your shop? I don’t mean your bookkeeping system, like QuickBooks. I mean a cash management...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 8
- 4 min
You have a conjoined twin
You have a conjoined twin–it’s your small business, your quilt shop. If you own a business, your personal financial health is in lockstep...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 1
- 4 min
How to take your quilt shop to the next level!
One of the most common questions I get after explaining the Profit First system is, “Do I really need all of those accounts?” But after...
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