Writing

Longer pieces.

Eight of these, published one at a time. Each one is the real method on a single problem — enough that you could do it yourself, which is rather the point.

• The two-week test — what actually breaks when an owner leaves, in the order it breaks
• Your effective labor rate is not your hourly rate — how to calculate the real one in an afternoon
• The ten leaks — what a job walk finds in a service business, and what each one costs
• Hiring the person who takes your job — what a real second-in-command costs, does, and is paid
• Why 92% of small businesses close instead of selling — and which of the reasons are fixable
• Customer concentration is a screen, not a discount — the number that quietly removes most buyers
• What a lender actually reads — three years of returns, and what they're looking for
• The cost of selling a Texas business — the full stack, line by line, on a $2M sale