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Word of the Day: Sowing from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Welcome to Word of The Day where we pick a day and we talk about how this word strategically can relate to you running a creative services business, and sometimes the words are unusual and this one is sowing. You’ve heard the principal sowing and reaping and that’s a farmer term, right? If you’ve ever planted anything, you know kind of what that means, because when you plant a seed, the plant doesn’t pop up immediately right out of the ground, which you have to do is wait. Time is involved in sowing […]

Word of the Day: Follow Up from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo.

Word of the Day: Limitations from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: Yo, yo. It is Word of the Day, and the word of the day today is limitations. I wrote this the other day. I said, “You can’t do everything, and you can’t be good at everything.” That was in a group of entrepreneurs we were leading. That basically means you’re limited in your time, which is the first part of that, you can’t do everything, and you’re limited in your abilities, which is the second part of that, you can’t be good at everything. But you know what people value? They value your […]

Word of the Day: Risk from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is word of the day where we pick a word and we tell you what it means to help you run your creative services company better and what is today’s word? It is risk. And if I were to define or ask you to define the word risk… I don’t know, many definitions. People might say doing something crazy, and that’s not what it is actually. I can’t believe we’ve never talked about this on word of the day. Risk is such a huge core foundational part of something you have to […]

Word of the Day: Energy from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It is Word of the Day. And what we do on Word of the Day is we pick one word, and we describe how that can help you strategically in your agency to grow. Today’s Word of the Day is energy. So a lot of times we talk about putting an effort in or time in, but energy is a key concept I’ve read about in a book recently. I want to read you a quote from an HBR, Harvard Business Review article. Here’s what it said, “Energy,” and it’s describing energy, “Energy […]

Word of the Day: Maturity from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT: Hey, hey, it’s Word of the Day where we take a word, we pick a word, sometimes a phrase, and we say how that applies to the strategy of growing a services company. Today’s word is maturity. Maturity is something entrepreneurs should always be doing. That’s the job of an entrepreneur, mature. You should be maturing and growing. Well, what is maturity? Well, I thought about that because I’ve matured so much in the past five years. I’ve grown personally to learn a lot about what it means to […]

Word of the Day: Leverage from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: My partner and I were working the other day on our relationship, actually, our partnership relationship, and what we get off the page, she was talking about we can’t leverage our relationship. And that makes a lot of sense. Today’s word of the day is leverage, and leverage has a lot to do with any kind of creative services business. If you have a big team and that team grows, then you make a leadership team, and that leadership team has different levels of knowledge and then the owners […]

Word of the Day: Perspective from Blumer CPAs on Vimeo. Transcript: It’s Word Of The Day. This is class time people. We’re going to take a word and we’re going to talk about strategically how this can change you and your business and this word is perspective. Have you ever heard somebody say, hey, you need to travel the world. That’ll change your life, change how you do business. I’ve heard that all the time and actually my partner and I were meeting with somebody recently and they talked about some travels they had done to South Africa and how […]