• #163: How to Evaluate a Commercial Building for Your Business
    Feb 9 2024

    Bekkah covers why it’s important to be patient in looking for a property, evaluating if you can grow in the space, if it has enough parking and easy accessibility, considering a property on the national historic registry, and more! Listen now!

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    27 mins
  • #162: How to Become a Property Manager
    Feb 1 2024

    Rena Freeman shares how to build a property management business. Rena covers getting the correct licensing, managing all of your properties efficiently, how to vet possible renters, ways to price yourself in a way that makes sense for property owners, how to maintain great customer service relationships with your tenants, and advertising your rental openings. All this and so much more, take a listen!

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    29 mins
  • #161: How to Navigate Commercial Property Grants as a Business Owner
    Jan 26 2024

    Have you ever wondered what resources are available to business owners for commercial properties? This episode covers how to look for grants within your region, what questions to ask as you prepare for your grant application, when to start spending money on your project, when you should apply, and how to encourage your local region to make more economic development funding available to small business owners. If you’ve ever wanted to find ways to make a building renovation project more affordable for your business, this episode is for you! Take a listen!

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    35 mins
  • #160: How to Evaluate Buying a Business That Has Buildings and Property
    Jan 19 2024

    Richard Parker has bought 13 different businesses personally and has spent 34 years working with acquisitions and mergers. In this episode, he discusses how to separate the value of a business from the value of real estate. Richard covers how you should consider how the actual property rental costs, noting that many business owners paying themselves rent for the use of the property space the business occupies or won’t pay themselves any rent at all. These two distinct differences are big items to consider when projecting what you will need to factor into your own costs of running the business once you acquire it. This tip, and so many more are in this episode. Take a listen!

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    40 mins
  • #159: What to Look for When Buying a Multi-Family Property
    Jan 12 2024

    Brandon Freeman discusses how he has built his rental investment portfolio, and explains how to calculate a cash on cash return so you can understand for yourself how to strategically build your own portfolio. He discusses why he separated out his property management company from his assets, and how he keeps a mix of short term and long term rentals to maintain a diversified amount of cash flow options for his business.

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    28 mins
  • #158: What is a Good Location for a Business?
    Jan 5 2024

    Bekkah explains what factors you may want to consider when you open up a physical storefront! This episode covers considerations such as whether you are hiring employees, being in the right location for your target market by researching your target market demographic, exploring overall city and regional resources that may be available to your business, and leveraging what your business will bring to the community when choosing a site location.

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    29 mins
  • #157: How to Build an Indoor Billboard Advertising Company
    Dec 29 2023

    This week Roger Pogorelc (Pooka) shares how he set up, not one, but TWO different indoor billboard advertising companies starting with absolutely no connections in two different markets. You are going to want to listen in to this conversation as it’s a business anyone could build, and his advice regarding how he did it is so valuable. This episode also has some fantastic advice on how to just get up and get going with sales to meet your target customers where they are at. Roger is a pro. Take a listen!

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    35 mins
  • #156: P2 How to Set Annual Goals for Your Business
    Dec 22 2023

    This is part 2 in the series on goal setting, and you’re not going to want to miss this! This episode covers how to set your goals to be specific, what you need to consider whenever you set yourself a sales goal for your business, and how to get tactical with examples of goals you can really hold yourself accountable for in pushing yourself and your business forward. Listen now!

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    23 mins