by Teresa Young | Apr 21, 2025 | Articles
If you’ve ever felt like you’re the only one in the shop keeping track of what really matters, you’re not alone. Many shop owners struggle to delegate effectively because they aren’t confident their team knows what to prioritize. What if there was a simple...
by Teresa Young | Dec 9, 2024 | Articles
Many say this business can be devilishly difficult. Between problematic retail customers, slow paying contractors, the difficulty finding good employees, and fierce price competition – it’s easy to understand how an owner can get frustrated. Yet, there are many...
by Teresa Young | Nov 11, 2024 | Articles
Or, How to Make a Recession Work For You… The talking heads agree we are in a recession. Year-over-year sales figures from many fabricators back that up. This has a lot of shop owners planning to hunker down as they wait for the Fed to lower interest rates....
by Teresa Young | Oct 28, 2024 | Articles
By Justin Shaw and Ed Young You’ve spent the last 10 or 20 years building your business, so you know it inside and out, right? How can someone who has never been in your shop come in and tell you something about your business that you don’t already know?...
by Teresa Young | Sep 26, 2024 | Articles
Economic signals are all over the map. Interest rates remain high, housing starts are down, yet the stock market is setting records. Most of the prognosticators who gaze into their crystal balls for a living are still forecasting a slowdown for the rest of this...
