Improving the businesses bottom line is always a nice thing to do. Usually, the strategy to do so is increase sales. But when you’re already working hard and long hours, more sales means more work. More work means more hours and less time at home with your spouse and family. How much more can you handle?

It typically takes a significant (near) life tragedy to change someone’s perspective. Many of us entrepreneurs are wired to achieve while neglecting our most important relationships. Imagine being in a commercial jet that is about to go crashing into the Hudson River…

Welcome to Thriving in Tandem. It’s a podcast for you the married entrepreneur that wants to win in business and marriage at the same time. The biggest challenge for the married entrepreneur isn’t just succeeding in business, it’s succeeding in all areas of your life including your marriage…

We’re all about helping the married entrepreneur create greater work-life balance. A lot of our discussion is around setting boundaries and being more efficient with our time. This week, we want to talk about an often overlooked aspect of the business that largely determines how hard the business has to work to make a profit. PRICE.

Training and developing employees seems like common sense but many small businesses do an inadequate job of doing so. Lack of time and resources seems to be the primary excuse. But if you knew that creating a culture that constantly develops its people would increase your profits, you would do it in a heartbeat, right?

We hope to save some marriages with this episode. Since money issues is the number one reason for conflict and divorce in a marriage, we would be remiss if we didn’t address it. The conflict boils down to this difference. One spouse is a saver while the other is a spender.

If you’re like us, you started the business for greater freedom. Freedom to do what you want, when you want. Freedom to take time off to have fun and be with family when you want.

I’m not sure if you realize but we all buy based on what we read. Sure, what we see, feel and taste are part of the sales process but ultimately, we need to read what we are buying, how to buy it and what it costs.

Succession in business isn’t often done or done well. If you look at the statistics, only 30% of first generation businesses transition to the second. Why is the success rate so low?

We did a thing! Our first book is released today on Amazon. What’s it about? Work-life balance and how to win in marriage and business at the same time. Is this even possible? It is.

I often hear budding entrepreneurs tell me they’re going to start a business so they can have other people manage it while they go off and do something fun or significant in their life…

The top reason for business failure is lack of money, pure and simple. No money, you can’t pay the bills, right? Sure, there are many reasons for that lack of money like low demand, poor marketing, or too high of overhead.

Because of our experience consulting with businesses from a variety of industries, we often get asked “what the most profitable business to own” is. From a profit margin standpoint, my usual answer has been most service type businesses like accounting, law, financial services and life insurance.

When you talk about marketing, what comes to mind? Digital ads, SEO, websites, and sales funnels to name a few? It’s all about customer acquisition and finding new customers, right?

Many businesses have the perception about marketing that it’s about trying to convince someone to purchase a product or service. Hopefully, you’re being ethical about your marketing but many toe the line if not cross it.

You may be working harder than ever this year yet the profits just don’t seem to be there. In fact, your total revenue may even be up but the profits aren’t. Why is that? It may be a simple fact that you aren’t charging…

If you’ve been struggling with finding a better balance between marriage and business. Trying to find more time to spend with your spouse and family. The solution may be to scale your business. What? How can growing the business be the

You want to grow your business or at least get it to a level of sustainability yet you just haven’t been able to get over the hump. Certainly, last year didn’t help but even pre-COVID, your business may have been as busy as ever…

One of our roles as Christians is to represent God to the world around us. Well, God is anything but average and ordinary so we shouldn't settle for average and ordinary either. If we really want to represent our God, we should believe for…

Join bestselling authors, and Co-Directors of Love-Wise, Bill and Pam Farrel who have been married and in ministry (and business) together nearly all of their 41 years of marriage. Bill and Pam will share tips on how rhythms and habits…