Business Insights

Martha Sullivan - Provenance Hill Consulting Starting a business is a conundrum in balance.  First, you need to work hard, fast and long just to get the business off the ground.  Then you need to push more to add employees, expand on new ideas and keep the momentum...

Craig Lemasters - CEO of GXG It is not too often that we meet people that leave a lucrative corporate career to start their own gig and all the risk it entails.  It also isn't too often that you meet people like Craig Lemasters. Craig is one of the leader builders in...

Victoria Thomas - Kelly-Moss Road and Race When someone tells you that money can't buy happiness, understand that they probably are not looking in the right places.  For many people, myself included, going around a race track is a lot of fun.  The adage for racing...

Pam and Paul - Tintwork Pam and Paul of Tintwork are automotive window tint experts.  They also happen to be marketing and software experts as well.  This is a great combination, since many people that want to start window tinting companies are struggling with brining...

Adam Frydenlund - AF Construction The challenges of starting any business can be tough.  Starting a construction or remodeling company adds it's own challenges.  From needing the skills with the hammer as well as the skills to give quotes and estimates accurately can...

John Warrilow - Built To Sell Just about every business owner I have ever spoken to, when asked why they started their business, has the word 'freedom' somewhere in their answer.  Scheduling freedom, income freedom and the freedom to do what you want, when you want....

Howard Tiersky - From , The Digital Transformation Company Every business that is interested in growing needs to know how to market.  This includes the small businesses as well as the Fortune 500 companies.  Nothing gets done until a sale is made, and if buyers don't...

Vivian Probst - Author, Linguist and Business Consultant Like most entrepreneurs, Vivian Probst is busy.  She consults for many clients on affordable housing, is a linguist with her WEnglish forms of English that works to remove the male dominance in the English...

Matt Moseman - Node U Design and Develop LLC Manufacturing has come a long way since the dawn of stone tools and hammers.  The machines that are building the products we all use need to be ever improving in their efficiency and quality control.  But as a manufacturing...

Robert Zabbia - Zabbia Agency The insurance world is an often competitive and misunderstood world.  We as drivers, homeowners, business owners and the like are essentially paying for promises we hope we do not have to ask our insurance company to keep. So how do you...

Yakov Smart - Connect and Profit Marketing is a funny thing.  As business owners, we know that we need to market.  On the flip side, who has the time to really invest in doing all that we should, or need, to do in order to get our name out there?  Nevermind that most...

Lannia Stenz - Gilda's Club of Madison A funny thing happened in 2020.  Well, not so much funny as forcibly life altering.  Especially if you run a non-profit that helps victims of cancer. Lannia Stenz is the CEO of Gilda's Club of Madison.  Listen as she tells us how...

Carrie Waters-Schmidt - Equanimity Wealth Planning and Investing The world of investing is filled with noise and confusion.  There are so many ways to invest, from stocks and bonds to mutual funds to ETF's, to REIT's and onto strange things that combine all manner of...

Mark Leslie Lefebvre - Author, Speaker, Consultant Here's the thing about most authors, they don't make much, if any, money.  Why?  There are a few reasons.  Certainly the barrier to becoming a published author has been lowered.  Also, authors are not typically...

Joshua Rhodes - Rhodes to Wealth We have been taught to work for our money.  But did you know that your money can also work for you?  This seems to be the semi-well kept secret of the people that rise above the people scraping by.  Save as much as you can and make...