The Sweaty Startup

How you chose to spend your time makes all the difference. Doing an 80/20 analysis can help you figure out what 20% of your efforts generate 80% of your results.

Do the smart work that is uncomfortable and watch your life open up!

Adam runs down his list of essential tools to get your local service business found online. From website builders to hosting to lead capturing he runs through all the tools he uses to build for his clients every day!

Time management is something that can make or break an entrepreneur. Nick talks about the 4 quadrants of time management and how to work on what is most important but is easy to procrastinate or ignore.

Adam tells his founding story and how he has built a web development agency that does $55k a month in revenue with 6 full time employees. He founded SparrowWebsites.com in 2016 as a 30 year old with 10k in the bank.

Nick answers a question from a listener about how he would market and build a power washing company.

Standardizing the material that new employees use to get onboarded and trained is a powerful tool that you should do right now during the slow season.

A customer in the loop is a happy customer. Set up all of your interaction in advance and spend some time thinking through how to get your message across to customers as efficiently as possible.

Nick and Jim talk about more businesses that Nick wouldn't start in if his life depended on it.

Nick and Jim dive into a few business ideas that Nick hates.

Jim Flannery is a founder and professor of entrepreneurship at University of Georgia in Athens GA. He gives his thoughts on big ideas and why they shouldn't be overlooked.

Coach Keppner runs a successful boxing gym in Athens GA and is also host of the Coach Keppner Show on a local radio station. In this episode he shares his story along with his principles and self help concepts that guide him towards a successful life.

We have a caller from Kansas City who is looking into purchasing a business. We talk about some of the questions to ask and what to look for!

Its an expense. They depreciate fast. In this episode we talk about the difference in buying a 10 year old car and a brand new car. Nick shares his cost of car ownership breakdown over the past 14 years and he compares it to the numbers if he had bought new every 5 years.

How do we find a balance in life? The media and the hustle mentality are driving us to crazy lengths. Its about enjoying life.

What is wealth to you? What are your goals with entrepreneurship? I lay out what is important to me.

Nick and Max talk about businesses they love and how they would start them.  https://sweatystartup.com/businesses-i-love/

How would I start a window cleaning business? In this episode we lay out the steps of exactly how we'd do it.  https://sweatystartup.com/essential-tools/

What makes an entrepreneur better? What sets them apart? What makes them more likely to succeed? Mindset. Nick and Max discuss it.

Nick and Max talk about their 10 favorite business books and what they like about each.  https://sweatystartup.com/booklist/

The shift was the moment we stopped pointing fingers and started taking the blame for things going wrong within our business. Instead of texting the employees the night before about their shift we scheduled them out a week in advance. Even if we weren't sure exactly what they'd be doing. We overemphasized their schedules and set up automated emails and texts to constantly remind them as the day ap...

You wouldn't expect to be able to pick up a basketball and play for an NBA team day 1. So why do we expect to start a business and get rich or make good money on day one? It's a skill. You get better at it by PRACTICING. Making decisions. Communicating. Selling. You can read all the books you want but it just takes getting out there and doing it. Starting small and working your way up. Stop readin...

Dan Nick and Max sit around and talk business once again to discuss trends and businesses they would love to start right now and how they would do it.

This book outlines and reinforces the fact that business, negotiation and any human interaction is inherently very emotional. It's centered around negotiation but this book has so many solid management and leadership principles. Mirroring, tactical empathy, starting with no and labeling are all phenomenal. https://sweatystartup.com/booklist/

Nick, Max and Dan get together to brainstorm business ideas and how they would launch and market a lawn care, Christmas light installation and mobile locksmithing company. This episode was a ton of fun.