Excited for our Member Meet & Greet this week!

Great question from the Scalepath Slack: How do you make sure your SOPs actually get used? It happens to every business eventually — a key employee resigns, taking years of knowledge with them. Your company takes a huge hit as everyone scrambles to cover everything they

How do you promote someone from hourly to salary? A great question from the Scalepath community. Here’s my take: — 1. Understand the challenge You have an individual contributor (IC) who’s killing it at their job and love it, but they want a salary, more responsibility,

CEO is a weird job. Nobody really teaches you how to do it. Here’s some stuff the business books don’t tell you:

Happy last day of Q3! We just announced a new slate of programming for October. Hit us with any questions about membership 👍

I asked my audience for the biggest lie about small business. Here are my six favorites:

This question came up in the Scalepath Slack the other day. It’s a tough situation. So many of us are wired as people-pleasers, but it can also lead to being taken advantage of. Here are my 3 suggestions for saying “no” to a client: 1) Create a process where someone who isn’t

Death. Taxes. And if you run a small business: raising prices. Because costs will never stop rising. But how do you raise prices and not lose customers?

Learn what it takes to grow your business with confidence—join our 8-week Scalable CEO Cohort starting October 15! Included with Scalepath membership. Learn more via link in bio!

What's your plan for 2035? That's not a typo—it's the first question you should ask before thinking about your goals for the year ahead. When you know where you're headed in the big picture, the shorter-term goals come into focus. Join us 1/10 for a lecture with Michael

Do you want to think in decades (not years)? (It's hard to do.) But, I've found two free, open-source tools I use when I plan each year. I'll share them in a live online lecture with Q&A done with my colleague Tony Bacigalupo. It's free. No strings attached. The signup link is

Excited to be hosting some fresh events for February. Hit us up if you'd like to join as our guest 🤙

Business update! Over the last few years I’ve been building a community of small business leaders called Scalepath. As of this week, @randbusiness will join as CEO (and acquire a majority of the company!). Rand Larsen is the perfect guy for this seat. He’s been driving all

HUGE news!! We just acquired a majority of @joinscalepath - with Girdley staying on as an advisor. This partnership is a win for everyone - me, Michael, but mostly our combined members. Their team built something loved by many, and I’m pumped up to take it to the next step

CHICAGO - I am hosting an event IN YOUR CITY! Myself and my partner in crime Chase Murdock are hosting the best SMB/ETA meetup you’ve ever experienced! - connect with other small business owners - get in a room with friendly, ambitious, helpful people - leave the room with new

Attention: U.S. manufacturers!! We are hosting a manufacturing business owner retreat in Atlanta, September 16-19th. Bringing together 15-20 other manufacturing business owners from across the country to go on 2 large manufacturing facility tours, and have intentional

$25,000 went into developing this project I created a collectible card series for entrepreneurs. All generated with AI I did this not as a joke, not as a product, but a marketing experiment for my peer group business, Scalepath. 121 unique designs, 250 decks, 12,500 cards.

Okay, I just finished the weirdest marketing experiment of my career Here’s the results… Concept: Design and print collectible cards for the speakers at Main Street Summit. Portray real entrepreneurs as superheroes, put them in popular movie scenes, etc that relate to their

Another fun Main Street Summit highlight. On Thursday morning, I texted almost everyone I knew at the conference to come get BBQ at a spot down the street from the last MainStage event in the evening. I don’t know how many people showed up, somewhere between 30 and 50. I bet

Can you really opt out of traditional health insurance entirely, save money, and still deliver better care and coverage for your team? Ben Little's done it, and he’s going to show us how. Learn about alternative approaches to employee health coverage that are ACA compliant,