Latest posts
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Cash Flow Is Queen: Meaghan Wall On The Money
Meaghan Wall of Hot Girl CFO on why cash flow outranks revenue, and the commingling mistake that makes your LLC legally indefensible.
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Influencer Pre-Flight SOP: Fix Your Site Before the Creator Posts
Sherri Langburt’s six-check pre-flight for influencer campaigns: criteria, inventory, geos, landing pages, promo consistency and the search result — everything you verify before a creator posts. Free printable PDF, no email gate.
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Selling a Pool Is Harder Than Selling Mascara
Sherri Langburt of BabbleBoxx on influencer marketing for small business — creator fit, campaign readiness, the channels nobody books, and why AI cannot replace the human.
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The Clarity One-Pager SOP: Map It Before You Build It
Dr. Julika Novkova’s pre-building step: put the role of every asset, the client journey, and what you are NOT on a single page before you build, rebuild, or automate anything.
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AI Guardrails SOP: Write Down What Your AI May Never Say
A free, do-this-today SOP from James Ernst of Core Order: capture your red lines in discovery, write them into an instruction file the system reads every time, and add a second agent whose only job is checking the output against them.
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Fix the Workflow First: James Ernst on AI That Actually Sticks in a Small Business
James Ernst of Core Order on why most businesses buy AI backwards, where homebrew beats off-the-shelf, and how to give reclaimed time back to your people instead of cutting headcount.
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You Can’t Argue People Out of Fear — John David Graham on Building Good Samaritan Home
Homeless at 53, John David Graham founded a nonprofit that now runs 19 houses and has helped 2,500 people restart. The reentry economics, the snowblower that beat the petitions, and the nonprofit mechanics nobody warns you about.
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Are You Writing for a Lion or an Otter? Cari McGee on Personality-Typed Marketing
Twenty years in real estate: the parking-lot photo that outperformed everything else she’s posted, why she only refers local lenders, what COVID masks taught her about reading clients, and a DISC-based case for writing four versions of your content.
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One Model, All Purposes: Sal Tirabassi on What a Fractional CFO Actually Does
CFO Pro + Analytics founder Sal Tirabassi on the first three priorities of a new engagement, the ~$5M revenue threshold where a fractional CFO pays for itself, the client he told to fire him, and the AI habits he uses in finance work.
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A Toaster Oven and Five Items: Rachel Smalling on Two Motels, a Speakeasy, and Running on Constraint
Rachel Smalling bought a closed motel on a joke, a second one to block a competitor, and opened Cookeville’s first speakeasy without ever having worked in a bar. The financing, the paper-calendar booking system, and the case for a deliberately tiny menu.