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Jacob Curtis
Sep 4, 20235 min read
What is your Big Promise?
Traditional wisdom says that you need to “pivot” to serve your customers. It used to be “inflection point.” Before that, “paradigm...
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Jacob Curtis
Aug 28, 20235 min read
A Simple Shortcut to Attract More Great Customers
Imagine that you have created a new sport. It's a blend of croquet, sailing, and curling. You call it Muddle, and it is going to be huge!...
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Jacob Curtis
Aug 21, 20236 min read
How to Escape from Your Jail-Cell Store
Do you feel shackled to your business? Are you the CEO–chief everything officer? Do you think to yourself, “Just one more day and soon...
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Jacob Curtis
Aug 14, 202329 min read
Podcast with Like Sew
Transcript: [00:00:00] Spencer: Okay, well welcome to the Quilt Shop Podcast. I have Jacob Curtis here with me from Nashville, Tennessee....
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Jacob Curtis
Aug 7, 20236 min read
How to Get Off the Struggle Bus
Suppose you are out in the forest and come across someone working feverishly to cut down a tree with a saw. "You look exhausted," you...
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Jacob Curtis
Jul 31, 20235 min read
How 1+1=4
When Sir Winston Churchill was called upon to head up the war effort for Great Britain, he remarked that all his life had prepared him...
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Jacob Curtis
Jul 24, 20237 min read
How to avoid frustration with your team
Suppose you've been having trouble with your eyes lately and decide to see an optometrist for help. After briefly listening to your...
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Jacob Curtis
Jul 10, 20237 min read
How to Avoid the Frustrations of Working with People
Imagine you are in your garden. It's beautiful! Bright colors everywhere! The roses are brilliantly red. The corn stalks are tall and...
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Jacob Curtis
Jun 26, 20237 min read
How to Put First Things First
Take a moment and write down one thing you're currently not doing that, if you did consistently, would positively impact your life. Just...
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Jacob Curtis
Jun 19, 20236 min read
Begin with the end in mind
Imagine you are at your funeral. You see the flowers and can hear the soft music. You see all your family, friends, employees, and...
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Jacob Curtis
Jun 12, 20236 min read
The first habit of highly effective people
Close your eyes and project your consciousness up into the corner of the room, in your mind’s eye. Imagine you are someone else watching...
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Jacob Curtis
Jun 5, 20233 min read
How to know if you are successful
How do you know if you are successful? Or how do you become successful? Stephen R. Covey in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective...
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Jacob Curtis
May 29, 20236 min read
How to avoid the vicious, negative cash-flow cycle
True or false: The only way to start and run a quilt shop is with debt. The answer is false. But if you’re like many other business...
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Jacob Curtis
May 22, 20233 min read
3 Financial Duties
Did you know that one of the top reasons for businesses failing is financial problems? They mismanage their money somehow and it results...
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Jacob Curtis
May 15, 20233 min read
3 Tips to managing your cash flow!
What’s your system for managing cash flow in your shop? I don’t mean your bookkeeping system, like QuickBooks. I mean a cash management...
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Jacob Curtis
May 8, 20234 min read
You have a conjoined twin
You have a conjoined twin–it’s your small business, your quilt shop. If you own a business, your personal financial health is in lockstep...
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Jacob Curtis
May 1, 20234 min read
How to take your quilt shop to the next level!
One of the most common questions I get after explaining the Profit First system is, “Do I really need all of those accounts?” But after...
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Jacob Curtis
Apr 24, 20235 min read
4 tips to find more money in your quilt shop
We all want a rainmaker–someone who is great at getting sales. They could sell ice to an Eskimo. You especially want someone like that...
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Jacob Curtis
Apr 17, 20234 min read
How to Destroy Your Debt
Well-dressed poverty is still poverty. Just because your business is making a lot of money doesn’t mean you’re keeping it. Often we focus...
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Jacob Curtis
Apr 10, 20236 min read
How to be successful from day one with Profit First
Today, I will show you the steps to take in your Profit First journey after you have used the instant assessment to calculate your...
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