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 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
- 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
- Feb 27
- 2 min
How to Avoid Customer Disinterest
In 2013, pastry chef Dominique Ansel created what TIME Magazine would later name one of the best inventions of 2013–the Cronut. But how...
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Jacob Curtis
- Feb 20
- 3 min
The Secret to Being Different
Better is not better. Different is better. Let me say that one more time. Better is not better. Different is better. Our customers have...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jan 16
- 3 min
3 Mistakes to Avoid when Setting Goals
Most goals are not achieved. Sometimes it’s because the goal isn’t tied to your big picture. Sometimes it’s because the goal isn’t set up...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Smarty Goal Setting
Setting new years goals is nothing new and forgetting those goals or not following through isn't new either. In fact most people forget...
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Jacob Curtis
- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
The Importance of Lifelong Learning
Did you know that Warren Buffett reads five hundred pages a day? I think that’s astounding. It probably takes him at least a few hours...
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