John Doherty Teaches You Entrepreneurship

Too many companies don’t know their metrics. Traffic, revenue, churned revenue, traffic and leads by channel. If you don’t know your metrics, you’re flying blind (which is a really bad idea.) Here is how I manage my company’s metrics and the cadence in which I do it.

I’ve hired 40+ people and worked with 5 different coaches in the last 5 years. Hiring has become a superpower of mine, enabling me to scale businesses faster than I could alone. Along the way I’ve learned some very important lessons about hiring well, and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is these 4 traits. If you hold to them, you’ll have a much higher success rate with the people you hire,...

Do you want to change your life? Then you need to be like a caterpillar. Changing your identity, and who you listen to and what you read, is imperative to growing.

Here’s how to get lucky - put in the work. Without doing more effort ahead of time to make something work, it almost definitely won’t. Apply to business, life, etc.

My wife and I are in the process of listing our old house here in Denver for sale. Today we were over there finalizing a few things, and I remembered that a good coat of white paint goes a long way. Whether in a house or a metaphorical coat of paint on your website or web app, sometimes a bit of polish is needed to maximize your return. Here are my thoughts.

I’m hearing this take a lot - that ai is going to replace agencies and freelancers, and services like mine. But I disagree! I think this take completely misses why people hire agencies/freelancers/services in the first place.

A wandering diatribe that starts with outsourcing and a good grid for what you outsource, a few stories, and then a rant on hidden costs in a business and why bootstrappers drive me insane sometimes.

If you’re an entrepreneur, don’t forget that you have something most employed people don’t - ownership of your time. Here’s my story and why I’m so grateful for this.

The difference between an expense mindset and an investment mindset can change your life.

If you’re wondering why you’re always working with clients who are subpar, or why you never seem to get closer to your goals, you need to listen to this episode.

People have been sowing FUD around “an impending recession” for months now, and I don’t think it’s going to happen. And even if it does, it’ll be controlled and nowhere close to what happened in 2008. That said, there are three things that I outline here that I think entrepreneurs should do right now to be fiscally responsible and weather any downturn.

Too many entrepreneurs optimize too early. Instead, here’s how to test a new service rapidly before systematizing and hiring for it.

A lesson I have learned over and over - if you want results to increase, you must increase the inputs.

When you ask others for input or advice, they’ll give you their take. And everyone’s is different. But this is how you make sense of it all to make it actionable.

I’m tired of hearing all the hand wringing around marketing in the SaaS and bootstrapped world. So here’s my 22 minute full take on how to market a bootstrapped company.

This is the number one thing I see people get wrong about hiring. You don’t hire the perfect employee/agency/service. You create them. Listen to learn more.

How do you win hearts instead of just saving accounts?

Change is one of those constants in life. I think we need to recognize that whether it is “good” or “bad” is simply our perspective, and not a reflection on change itself. How we respond to change determines whether it is good or bad for us.

A podcast with Bear Grylls on The Diary of a CEO made me think about this. Is it possible to recover when you’ve peaked too early? What does that path look like? Here’s my story of doing that and what it’s taken to get back.

In which I talk about ADHD, autumn, and poultry. But trust me - it’s all about business.

The old saying goes “don’t get in the mud with pigs, because they’ll enjoy it and you’ll get messy.” This principle informs how I respond to customers who aren’t happy.

If you’re struggling to get more customers for your business, then you need this episode. It’s the number one way to get more, guaranteed.