4 Lessons Learned from Year 1 with BOP
It’s been a year at business on purpose for me...and one thing I can honestly say is it’s been a roller coaster. So what are the 4 things that have truly stopped me in my tracks this year? Well, let’s talk about that today. Happy Monday friends, Thomas Joyner here...
Must Have Tool For Hiring: An Organizational Chart Template
Human anatomy is simply the study of the structure of the human body. In 1862, an antiquities dealer from Bridgeport, Connecticut named Edwin Smith was living in Egypt and connected with Mustapha Aga, another dealer. Smith purchased an ancient Egyptian medical...
Vision, Mission Statement, And Core Value Examples You Will Actually Use
It was beautifully designed and placed on the wall of their printing business in the cosmopolitan city on the southern coast of Nigeria; three wall plaques side by side by side. The first plaque read “Our Vision”. The second, “Our Mission”. The third, “Our Core...
Top 5 Hiring Mistakes
I once spoke with a former COO of Disney and had a brief conversation about how he spent the allotment of time he devoted to work each week. His response was, “I spend 60% of my week trying to find the right people to bring into Disney.” In my head, I’m thinking, “you...
Defining Your Avatar: Your One Perfect Customer
If you have worked with us in the past you know that on the vision story we walk with you through, we ask a couple of questions about the type of clients or customers that you want to work with. And on the flip side of the coin, we also ask questions about what type...
How To Determine A New Hire Salary
There are two areas of a small business when an owner will resort to gut feel faster than any other; who to hire, and how to compensate that new hire. We were a few months into coaching a business owner when the time approached for her to hire a new role in her...
Who Holds You Accountable
Who holds you accountable? To your standards, your goals, your vision? Meeting with businesses can be a roller coaster. There are hundreds, if not thousands of variables at play every single day! So how do you navigate those? How do you work through those? How do you...
When To Hire Employees For A Small Business?
He finally admitted, “we were so desperate to find people that our hiring process consisted of simply determining if they had a pulse!” Unfortunately, this is where many business owners find themselves as their business grows and they become a slave to the soupy chaos...
Let’s Talk About Your Time… Really, Your Mornings
What does your morning routine say about you? What does your morning routine look like? Does it matter? Maybe...let’s take a look. It’s been said, “The morning is the perfect time to get into peak physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state. The right morning...
The Ugly Side Of Business Growth
Ok, so you’ve reached your sales goal...now what? Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Let’s jump into that today! It’s a new week, I hope you’re doing well, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. I’ve seen businesses that earn 300k with an 80% margin...and I’ve...
Why Is It So Hard To Find Employees Right Now
We sat down for an impromptu Happy Hour last week with a handful of our local clients. The topic we thought was most relevant was “how do we manage material delays and price increases?” After some BIG Wins (we always start meetups with BIG Wins), we then lobbed the...
4 Key Steps Away from Chaos
Chaos...that ever-present foe (or friend) to some of you. How do you take much-needed steps away from it? How do you close the door on it and lock it out for good? Well, let’s talk about that today! Every single sales meeting we do inevitably comes back to employees...
How To Make Work More Enjoyable For Employees
We were sitting by the fire when the phone call came around midnight. On the other end were my son and a group of 17 and 18-year-old male voices practically shouting in unison saying, “You’re not going to believe this, we got Mr. B to do the worm in the middle of the...
Do You Have The Time?
I ran across a quote from Laura Vanderkam this week, “Do you not have time or do you just not want to do it? There is a difference! Blaming time for what you aren't prioritizing doesn't complete tasks.” I ran across this quote as I was studying because I was having...
Four Ways To Deal With Material Shortages And Price Increases
In the third month of building out our Ram Promaster van as an off-the-grid getaway camper, I walked into our local home improvement store and gasped out loud. A ¾” sheet of Oak plywood was $65 (USD). An 8’ section of poplar wood was $40 per board. Ouch. For an...