Business Insights

Thomas Castelli - Hall CPA On the Major Tax Value of Investment Real Estate: "When you buy a property, there's a noncash expense called depreciation. It's one of the biggest tax benefits of investing in rental real estate, and that's true whether you buy a rental...

Glenn Plumby - Retired COO and Author On the the Importance of Frontline Employees and Customer Service: "If that's a terrible experience, that guy could go on to have a terrible day." There are basically two ways to learn something.  Dig in and make your own...

Mike Schuster - FiddleSmart Marketing On the Getting Efficient Answers: "You might have people on the phone. It might be you, depending on your business, talking to owners, but you get the same kind of questions all the time when you're talking to people. So answer...

Valerie McGeHee PhD - Author of Atomic Grit On the Her Recipe for Success: "If you had grit, if you could set goals, and you had some sort of social support, which was the missing piece, which is accepting help from others, accepting, mentoring for account help...

Larry Pendleton - Larry Pendleton CPA On the Getting the Right People: ""I gotta be able to kind of find the right people to trust instead of finding someone that I halfway trust and I gotta oversee every every step of the way." Just about every successful business...

Mickie Kennedy - eReleases PR Agency On the Knowing Your Audience: "A journalist's job is, of course, to produce content. But even more importantly is to keep their audience happy." News is everywhere, and most of it isn't exactly positive.  A lot of it is pretty...

Jamie Gale - Helping Leaders Create Content and Podcast Guru On the Power of Gratitude: "People that are grateful, abundance tends to come to them." Podcasts.  Almost everybody has them, almost everybody listens to them.  But how do you as a business owner get a...

Sue Gresham - The LinkedIn Lady On the Power of Gratitude: "People that are grateful, abundance tends to come to them." Social media for grown-ups is really what LinkedIn has become.  It is the place to be as a professional and as a person wanting to connect with...

Eric Cogorno - YouTube Golf Education On Believing In Yourself: "That was the first time that my brain felt like it was allowed to think big enough.  It was the first time I really allowed myself to imagine, what would even be possible here?" Just about every kid...

Melissa Brumm - Slow Life Revolution On Achieving Victory in Business: "So it's sort of like if we help them win, we win. And then if we keep helping them win, we win. Everyone wins." Every entrepreneur shares at least two common traits: 1) They have boundless ideas...

Clayton Bates - Shopify Expert On Achieving Victory in Business: "So it's sort of like if we help them win, we win. And then if we keep helping them win, we win. Everyone wins." Shopify has grown to be dominant force in the e-commerce world.  Holding about 20% of the...

Phil Anderson - Candidate for US Senate On Discovering a Disturbing Truth: "It was an indication to me right off the bat that things weren't being run as honestly and fairly and democratically as I had thought they were." It is a rare person that believes that any...

Nathan Boehm - Diventures - Sun Prairie, WI On Knowing Where to Set the Bar: "Always the goal for the first day is not to cry in the water. You know, set it nice and low.." Nathan will share with us the fascinating growth story of Diventures from a modest beginning to...

Randy Lenz - Real Estate Agent Extraordinaire On the Cost of Change: "It's a little bit daunting right now because some of the new people coming in have no clue how they're even going to get paid." We all need someplace to call home and for those trying to live the...

John Casmon - Casmon Capital On Being Aware of What Can Go Wrong: "I was making money. I grew my net worth. But at the end of the day, if I got fired from my job or if I got let go, I didn't have enough money to pay all of my bills." Get your money to work for you is...