All posts by Jason Blumer

Word of the Day – Alignment from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Video Transcript: So it’s word of the day and today’s word is alignment, and this word is basically trying to find a client that is aligned with you. So we’re not searching for clients, right? We’re searching for alignment, we’re searching for the right clients, not clients. And this is so key. It’s basically, this is the front door to your company and when your front door is nailed shut, so to speak, and you have to open it and you have to peek out and it takes a lot of time. There’s […]

Video Transcript:  Hey, hey, it’s Word of the Day. Jason Blumer here with a little bit of education on the strategy around running your agency in a better way, and so we do Word of the Day, and today’s Word of the Day is networking. It’s something that we all do initially when we start our companies. We’re trying to meet people and get new clients, but you know what, it’s something that falls away, and does for me too, falls away. When we get busy, and we start finding clients, and we’re doing a lot of work ongoing, networking […]

Word of the Day – Data from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day. This is where we use a word and we pinpoint some strategy to help you grow your company. The word of the day today is data. This is a popular thing lately, right? Measurement, scoring, score cards, data. These are the things you want to build dashboards to put a lot of stuff on it to help you run your business better, and data is really, really cool. But we have to remember what data is. It is a small subset of the truth. It’s a […]

Word of the Day: Emotions from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It’s time for word of the day where we strategically help you run your firm. Today we’re going to talk about entrepreneurs, those special people running these creative companies. One thing they have to deal with a lot is their emotions, and that’s the word for today. The thing about emotions is that they are real. You feel them, but it doesn’t mean they reflect the truth. And that is so hard. So we do a lot of coaching and consulting with creative business owners, helping them gain clarity. Of course, the opposite […]

Word of the Day: Roles from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day, where we teach a strategic concept to help you run your agency or your creative service business better. And we use a word, and today’s word is roles. Roles are, they’re like a definition of who you are in a company. And it’s so important to define roles. So job descriptions are one way to define roles. Job titles, that’s another way to define roles. A job title is basically a summary of a job description, right? But the job title is more of the branding of […]

Word of the Day: Polar from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day to teach strategically using one word some things that will help you run your business better. I was reading an article not long ago that talked about what the brain does in the face of stressful, urgent decisions that need to be made, and you know what the brain does? It goes polar. It goes polar. It goes to extremes, and that’s something you want to avoid. This article talked through the fact that the brain automatically responds impulsively under stress so if you’ve got situations that […]

Word of the Day: Choices from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day. At Blumer CPAs, we want to give you some strategy around running your creative agency better, so we pick a word and we talk about it. Today’s word is ‘choices,’ and choices, basically, decisions and choices they’re hard to go through, and they’re something leaders have to do all the time, they’re always making and picking between different types of choices. We just want you to know that there can be something called ‘choice fatigue.’ There could be so many choices coming at you all the time […]

Word of the Day: Restraint from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Word of the day, class. This word of the day is a weird word, restraint. Entrepreneurs love to talk about freedom. They love to talk about freedom, run your own business, be free, but entrepreneurs are particular kinds of people. Often, when you feed them piles of what they would call freedom, which means no guidance, that’s what they want, do what you want, do whatever you want, and whenever you want, that actually is the thing that hurts them in serious ways. Long-term entrepreneurs can tell you that that’s true. The gift […]

Word of the Day: Commitment from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: I want to talk to you in Word of the Day today about a big word, it’s about an article I wrote not along ago about my partner and I, Julie, we’re going to commit to running a firm forever. That’s a forever commitment. So, the word of the day is commitment. That’s a long word, so I’ve got to lean over to show you commitment. Commitment is a scary word to some people, but for an entrepreneur, it can be the thing that really changes your mindset and how you build your […]

Word of the Day: Bridge from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: For Word of the Day, I’m going to tell you a little story. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Tacoma Bridge. They labeled it The Galloping Gertie Bridge. Back in 1940, they built this bridge to span some part of Washington where cars couldn’t get across, and it cut down commutes from two hours to like 15 minutes to get across this certain part of the water. But the bridge was not designed really well back in 1940, and so the bridge would waver like this. Actually, some people would take […]