All posts by Jason Blumer

Word of the Day: Barriers from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is word of the day, where we take a word and strategically try to explain how you could apply it in your creative services company. Today’s word of the day is barriers. So you know what barriers are, right? You’re driving down the highway, and there’s these big concrete barriers and blocks in the way. If you hit those, you’re going to stop real fast. That’s what a barrier’s meant to do. It’s meant to stop you. But when you’re running a creative services company, that is a services company based upon […]

Word of the Day: Labels from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It’s word of the day, where we take a word strategically and we talk about how it applies to your practice, your firm, your life. And today’s word is labels. My partner busts me on labels. Sometimes I like labels. Labels are safe, softer. They help me live within a safe a world which is not a place where I grow and change. But it’s something I will be prone to do sometimes, is apply labels. And labels are okay, right? There’s a lot of different labels, political parties are labels or I’m […]

Word of the Day: Examination from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Welcome to Word of the Day. We pick a word and we talk about strategically how you can use it to live your life and run your business better. And today’s word is examination. Where does that come from? When we do consulting with clients, we’re often helping leaders assess their team better and teams, they are just not good at examining themselves. So our leader teams that we work with often find that asking team questions, working with team or even clients generates wrong answers a lot of times. You can say […]

Word of the Day: Capacity from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It’s Word of the Day where we take a word and teach some things strategically to help you understand your business, your creative business, and how you lead that. This word of the day is “capacity.” This is the magic. This is the thing you’re always managing in a creative business, a knowledge-based business where people sell their ideas. The deliverables are often the spoken word. Sometimes their deliverables have real things, tangible things, but in creative agencies and creative knowledge businesses, a lot of times the deliverables are digital in nature, and […]

Word of the Day: Self Assessment from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Yo, yo, it’s Word of the Day, where we take a word and we talk about the strategy behind that word in helping you run your agency or your creative business better, and this is a big one. It’s self-assessment. That is big, and we were talking about that in a group. We were leading an entrepreneurial group not long ago, and this self-assessment idea came up where people are generally not good at looking at themselves and determining where they are, how they feel, what they’re doing, how well they’ve done. […]

Word of the Day: Planning from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: There’s often a twist on our Word of the Day videos, and this one may have a twist for you. Word of the Day is planning, and we’ve all heard about planning. We know what that is, right? We use a calendar to plan. But planning is basically courageous. That’s how I view it. Planning is looking into the future, and it’s telling the future what it’s going to do. That is courageous, and a lot of us don’t feel the strength and ability to do that, but that’s what successful people do. […]

Word of the Day: Anxiety from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the day, where we share a word and talk about how it strategically can impact how you grow your business. And the word of the day today is anxiety. And I’ve been reading a lot about this. My partner and I been discussing this, and reading a lot about it in some books we’re studying right now. And it’s fascinating that there are some authors that approach anxiety, and that is the anxiety driven by moving forward and taking risks and doing new unknown things. This anxiety is a […]

Word of the Day: Narrow from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day, that’s where we take a word and we learn strategically what it means in growing and scaling creative service companies and this word is narrow. If you’re walking on a narrow road, if you’re in a narrow place, you’re going to meet more interesting people because not everybody walks a narrow road. And when you’re not confused with a bunch of stuff if you’re on a narrow road or if you’re in a narrow place you can notice insights more readily because there’s not a lot of […]

Consultants Avoid Risk Collusion from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Julie and I just got through doing some consulting with a client. We’re going to do more consulting soon here, and any consulting is inherently embedded in the risks we’re willing to take. Basically what that means is consulting typically ends up being change. Change has got to happen and that’s why people come to us because change has got to happen. When change has to happen, typically how much risk we’re willing to bear is embedded in the decisions of change. It gets pretty uncomfortable. Sometimes you get to a stopping point when […]

The Order of Building Your Business from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: As you think about your service based organization that you’re building, just think about there’s two sides really that you’re always managing. Right? It’s a market side.. It’s an external side. That’s your client side. That’s where you’re positioning towards and making purpose statements towards. Then there’s an internal side. That’s the service side. Right? That’s that’s the things you can control, and do things about, and build structures and team models that serve that market side. Julie and I’ve been in our service model for a long time, and we do […]