Blue Collar Business Podcast

024 – Start A Small Business The Smart Way Businesses are struggling and failing all over the place and yet so many people believe that it is still smart to borrow money to start a business. In this show I explain how I’m pretty much giving my employees my business to take over and yet [...] You just finished reading 024 - Start A Small Business The Smart Way! Consider leaving a comment!

023 – E-Myth Unpacked In this week’s show I talk about one of my favorite business books of all time, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. Mr Gerber describes it like this… The “E-Myth,” or Entrepreneurial Myth, is the flawed assumption that people who are expert at a certain technical skill will therefore be successful [...] You just finished reading 023 - E-Myth Unpacked! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 022 – Never Miss A Payroll In my [almost] seven years of running a business I have never missed a payroll. My formula for such a feat hasn’t always been filled with sound financial practice. In this week’s show I explain some of the bad ideas I used to pull this off as well [...] You just finished reading 022 - Never Miss A Payroll! Consider leaving a comment!

021 – Part 2 – Leadership Insights From Catalyst 2010 With Gregg Pechmann In part two Gregg shares with us a mountain of content that was delivered by one of the foremost experts on leadership today, Andy Stanley. Andy is lead pastor of the 4th largest church in America, Northpoint Community Church. Andy has been [...] You just finished reading 021 - Part 2 - Leadership Insights From Catalyst 2010 ! Consider leaving a comment!

019 – Google AdWords for Service Pros In this week’s show I’m joined by Tony DiLorenzo AKA The Dent Dude. Tony has been using Google AdWords to drive traffic to his paint-less dent repair services. He has been using this service for 6 years now and shares his strategies with us. As promised during the [...] You just finished reading 019 - Google AdWords for Service Pros! Consider leaving a comment!

018 – Facebook For Contractors In this week’s show I welcome my very first guest, Mr Andy Traub. Andy is co-host of Business Tech Weekly and a great friend. I brought Andy onto the show to help us all understand how we can use Facbook to help us build local relationships. Andy uses an example [...] You just finished reading 018 - Facebook For Contractors! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 017 – Quitting In The Dip Ryan, in Canada sends us our very first Voice Mail feed back! You have got to love those Canadians! I get a majority of my feedback from them. They must really love business and serving others up there! Ryan wants to know who else I recommend for podcast [...] You just finished reading 017 - Quitting In The Dip! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 016 – What Does The Blue Collar Community Need From Me? This week’s show is a re-release of an interview I did with Justin Lukasavige (one of my business coaches) at http://coachradio.tv. I thought long and hard on whether or not I should do this. I realize that I have already told my story [...] You just finished reading 016 - What Does The Blue Collar Community Need From Me?! Consider leaving a comment!

015 – Employee Shuffle Trying to keep payroll down is a huge key to staying profitable. Your payroll expenses will always be a focus. As business owners we are always looking for a bargain. As today’s example finds out bargain hunting the employee market can be a tricky game. Meet Paul Downs, contributing blogger at [...] You just finished reading 015 - Employee Shuffle! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 014 – Should contractors use social media? Should businesses that get 100% of their work locally use social media to grow their brand? That’s the question I take on in this week’s show. It is my belief that companies who are ignoring social media will eventually be playing catch up. I profiled Attaway Renovations [...] You just finished reading 014 - Should contractors use social media?! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 013 – Noise Reduction – Who Has Your Ear? Who has permission to speak into your life? Negative words and stories will only serve to discourage you. We all need to limit how much negativity we allow into our lives. In this week’s show I promise to deliver a list of who I have [...] You just finished reading 013 - Noise Reduction - Who Has Your Ear?! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 012 – Business Is A Moral Activity – Part 2 This week Justin and I finish up our review and discussion of Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s book, Thou Shall Prosper. Here are the commandments for making money we covered this week. 6 – Learn to foretell the future 7 – Know your money 8 – [...] You just finished reading 012 - Business Is A Moral Activity - Part 2! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 011 – Business Is A Moral Activity In this week’s show I simulcast with Justin Lukasavige with Coachradio.tv and we go through the first 5 commandments in Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s book Thou Shall Prosper. In show one of two we go through the following commandments. 1. Believe in the dignity and morality of buisness [...] You just finished reading 011 - Business Is A Moral Activity-Part 1! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 010 – Independent Contractor or Employee? In today’s show I explain why you aren’t in charge of whether or not someone you hire is an independent contractor or employee. I discuss my experience with contractors vs employees as well as my customer’s experiences. Let’s face it. The more people who stick their hand in the [...] You just finished reading 010 - Independent Contractor or Employee?! Consider leaving a comment!

Episode 009 – Monkey Business In this week’s episode I talk about a $43,000.00 job I lost by $2,500.00 and explain that if you just go with the cheapest bid every time then a monkey can do your job. I talk about what I should have done to increase my chances of landing this job. [...] You just finished reading 009 - Monkey Business! Consider leaving a comment!