My Business On Purpose

The State of your Attention Determines the State of your Life/Business Hey folks, Brent Perry here, and I am one of the coaches here at Business on Purpose. Let's take a quick assessment.  James Redfield has a quote that states: " Where Attention goes Energy flows! " Take a few minutes and think over the past few weeks of work and life. Especially you business owners out there. Where has your atte...

Four Steps Towards Better Intuition in your Business Do you have intuition? Or do you think you do? Do you just wing it or do you have a process for it?  Well, let's take a few minutes to find out if you truly do. Good afternoon friends, Thomas Joyner with Business On Purpose here.  This past weekend, our entire team flew up to Franklin, Tennessee to celebrate the opening of a new BoP location in...

3 MUST DO business tasks at mid-year… We're at the halfway point of 2021... so what now? Well, here are 3 MUST Do business tasks that every business should do this month. Good afternoon Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose. It's easy to get into the habit of putting it on cruise control. It's summer vacation for kids, everyone is restless to get on the water over the weekend. It's hot and h...

Why Transfer Your Influence: How A Business Sets Itself Free by Scott Beebe Founder | Head Coach Business On Purpose 12 Week Plan Live Event Hewitt Oaks, Bluffton, SC 17th June 2021

"Transferring Your Authority: How To Equip Your Team And Set Them Free" by Thomas Joyner Business Coach, Business On Purpose 12 Week Plan Live Event Hewitt Oaks, Bluffton, SC 17th June 2021

What exactly IS the function of an ORG Chart? Two phrases I've heard in the past week… "I feel like our business needs more from our employees." and  "I feel like we have holes between what our business needs and what it actually has!" My answer? You're absolutely correct. Happy Monday friends, Thomas Joyner with business on purpose here. We're going to answer the question today of what exactly is...

How To Develop A Job Description Growing up in a faith community, we would head out for loads of different community service opportunities picking up trash at a community park, repainting old homes, sorting through spoiled food at a local food bank; or the time in Denver when we were serving in a food line while a group of men smoked pot on one side of us while a knife fight broke out on the other...

4 Four 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 with Business on Purpose.  Coaching 20+ businesses, writing new content, helping clients...

 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 papyrus that dates back to the 17th century BC and had taken residence for a...

Happy Friday folks. Brent Perry with Business on Purpose here. It's June... we made it. Summer is here, and I hope you are ready. My best piece of advice... don't let your clients ruin your vacation.   Story of 2 clients this week talking about summer.  Mexico story Freedom fishing in Florida  What are your summer plans?  So the question of the day, how do you save your vacations? And yes, I think...

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 Values " The world of business has been uniquely lulled...

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 mean to tell me that you are basically devoting all of Monday, all of Tuesday, and all of Wednesday to findin...

Defining Your Avatar: Your One Perfect Customer" Happy Friday folks. Brent Perry with Business on Purpose here. It's nice and rainy here is good ole' Tennessee, but we still have some good content to talk about. 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...

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 contracting business.  After helping her think through what to offload to the new team member, write t...

Who holds you accountable? Who holds you accountable? To your standards, your goals, your vision?  Happy Monday friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. 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 make sure you put the work in to buil...

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 of product creation, delivery, billing, payables, taxes, and dealing with employees....

Number One Team by Greg Gray Business Coach My Business On Purpose Greg Gray is an international leadership and business coach, who has been serving others for over a decade. He is the author of Business Owner Freedom: Transform Your Business To Create The Lifestyle You Desire. Greg also hosts the Everyday Business Leader Podcast. He is a regular contributor to the Business On Purpose Podcast, tha...

What Makes A Great Leader? by Greg Gray Business Coach My Business On Purpose Greg Gray is an international leadership and business coach, who has been serving others for over a decade. He is the author of Business Owner Freedom: Transform Your Business To Create The Lifestyle You Desire. Greg also hosts the Everyday Business Leader Podcast. He is a regular contributor to the Business On Purpose P...

"Let's Talk About Your Time... Really, Your Mornings!" Hey there, Brent Perry with Business on Purpose. Happy Monday. Or, whenever you have stumbled across this video I hope you are doing well. 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...

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 seen million-dollar businesses with 3% margin. You tell me which you'd rather have! You see, we hear...

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 topic for discussion.  Within five minutes, all of our business owner clients were knee...

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! Happy Monday friends! Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. Every single sales meeting we do inevitably comes back to employees and sales. Every. Single. One. But wh...

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 dance floor!" It was prom night, the final opportunity for these young men to slay th...

Do You Have The Time? Hey there, Brent Perry with Business on Purpose. Happy Friday. I hope whenever you have stumbled across this video you are doing well. 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 studyin...

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 amateur just learning how to do basic woodworking and sure to miss-cut,...