Jacob Curtis
How Small Business Owners Break the Cycle of Constantly Doing the Work (Part 3 of 3)
When I say the acronym SOP, what comes to mind? Stock Option Plan? School of Pharmacy? Standard Operating Procedure? If you thought...
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Jacob Curtis
- Oct 2
- 6 min
How Small Business Owners Break the Cycle of Constantly Doing the Work (Part 2 of 3)
People tend to stick with something they've invested a lot of time or money in, even when it's not working out. This is called the sunk...
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Jacob Curtis
- Sep 25
- 7 min
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 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
- 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 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
- Mar 13
- 3 min
Avoid Disaster with Selective Hearing
How did you feel the first time you got terrible feedback from a customer? You probably felt terrible. I know I did. I was working on a...
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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
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
Five Tips for Beating a Recession
A recession is a prolonged period of economic decline, beginning when the economy peaks and ending when it bottoms out. A recession can...
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Jacob Curtis
- Jun 19, 2022
- 3 min
How The Blend Technique Can Keep You in Business
Think about some of the modern-day conveniences that we have today... The service industry, for example. if you need to pick something up...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 22, 2022
- 3 min
Productive vs. Being Busy What is the Difference?
Being busy isn’t the same thing as being productive. Productivity means working towards a goal. It means tangible progress, a timeline...
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Jacob Curtis
- May 15, 2022
- 3 min
How To Make Your Marketing Stand Out
Better is not better. Different is better. At least, it is when it comes to your marketing. If you believe in your business, in your...
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