Business Video Roundup: Trusting Business Partners, Designing Your Workplace & More
This week’s business video roundup touches on a variety of topics, including the fundamentals of trusting your business partners, advice on rejuvenating a stagnant company, and designing a workplace that is good for both people and business. There’s even a solid primer on understanding profit-and-loss statements that won’t bore you to death. Plus, the CEO of a company that only hires adults with disabilities discusses his company’s vision and the unique challenges faced.
#AskGaryVee: Shonduras on Trusting Business Partners, Flipping Products & Scaling Your Brand
On the latest episode of #AskGaryVee, entrepreneurs Shaun “Shonduras” McBride and Sean Holladay join Gary Vaynerchuk to answer questions from a live audience. Among them: How do you scale a personal brand? What was your biggest struggle in building a brand? And what are the challenges of making the transition from family business to personal brand?
Brian Tracy: Practical Tips to 10x Your Company
If you feel your business is stagnating and in need of a little reinvigoration, this six-minute video from Brian Tracy may give you some ideas to help give your business the push it needs to continue evolving.
Erica Keswin: Design Your Workplace
In this 28-minute conversation, Evan Carmichael welcomes Erica Keswin, an expert on organizational culture and author of the new book Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World. If you’re in the design or re-design phase of your business, this one has some excellent advice.
Phil Town: Profit and Loss Statements
This video is intended as a primer on profit and loss statements for investors seeking to evaluate a company they are interested in, but it can also be a useful primer for business owners seeking to gain more insights into the performance of their business.
CEO David Friedman on Creating a Company That Only Hires Adults with Disabilities
Dave Friedman is the founder and CEO of AutonomyWorks, a marketing company that aims to give adults with autism and other disabilities the chance to reach their professional potential. As the CEO of a company that exclusively hires people with disabilities, Friedman talks about his company’s outlook and the unique challenges that come with staying true to that vision.
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The Underrated Power of Profit
Cash flow gets the cautionary tales. Every owner who has scrambled to make payroll learns to respect liquidity, and they are right to. But beneath the cash flow conversation sits a deeper question—one that determines whether a business is worth running at all: is it actually making money?
Profit is the engine. Cash flow is the fuel line. You can keep a clean, well-managed fuel line delivering steadily…
How Does Factoring Work for Service-Based Businesses?
If you run a service business, you might wonder whether factoring is really for you — it’s often described with examples about shipping goods or delivering products. The good news: factoring works very well for service-based businesses. What you’re factoring is the invoice, and a service invoice is just as fundable as a product invoice, as long as the work is done and billed to a business customer.
What Questions Should I Ask a Factoring Company?
Walking into the conversation with the right questions puts you in control and quickly separates the straight-shooters from the slippery ones. Here’s a practical checklist to bring with you. A good factor will answer all of these clearly and without hedging.
On cost and fees What is your factoring fee, and exactly how is it structured — flat, or does it increase the longer an invoice is unpaid? What…
