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Startup Planning: Why Revisiting Your Plan is Critical for Business Growth

As I reflected on my business journey, at every stage of my business development I was always planning for the future. At the earlier stages of my business the goals were to get clients and sales. I spent the first few years really learning and understanding the target client that I was looking for and understanding my competition. Once I had a handle on that, the next stage was growth, taking the model that I developed and repeating that process, over and over again. Finally the last stage was focusing...

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How Super Connectors are Changing the Game in Networking and Relationship Building

Good business sense, and amazing customer service are the foundation of good business, however to scale you need sales and to get sales you need to get your name out there. Advertising and marketing will only get you so far and yes brand and company story are valuable tools to garner interest but the fastest way to grow your business is through word of mouth referrals. Enter, super connectors. Super connectors are customers that are fans of the business, and the experience they have. Super connectors are influenced by their...

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Entrepreneurial Side Hustles That Can Turn into Full-Time Businesses

It shouldn’t be a huge shock, but almost all companies started are a byproduct of a side hustle. A side hustle is working after your primary job on something your interested in for additional money or fun. I mentioned this in my first video, I started my IT services company while working two other full time jobs at the time. There are some key rules when it comes to a side hustle that I really believe in. A side hustle is just that, something on the side, it must be...

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Embracing Authentic Connections in the Business World!

I still remember it vividly, one day my phone rings and its one of my clients letting me know they had a friend that worked at a company that they feel could really use my services. Great, I got the information and went in to see the potential new client. I got there and pitched my services and was asked, we really value one on one service what kind of service will I get with your firm? I paused and thought and said its just me, I run the company...

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Why Focusing ON Your Business Can Lead to Greater Success

I did have a question because of what you mentioned in your inability to work on the business because of what you were doing, so now that you’ve. Done this. Has that provided a chance for you to step back perhaps from tech support in some way and allow some of, I don’t know, Interlaced staff to take some of that burden from you? Or is that not part of the game yet? So we just finished the integration of the ticketing systems, which was the biggest roadblock and hurdle...

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The Importance of Effective Team Communication in Dynamic Environments

Yeah, I think that the hurdle that I wasn’t as ready for, and the thing that kind of took me off guard was I came into the team. And I had built this thing and I was very comfortable where I was as the business owner operator, and I just assumed that I would continue to feel that level of comfort in continuing to build my book of business. I think that when you’re working in a large group, in a large team, especially one as large as Interlaced, it’s...

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