For most entrepreneurs, running a business also means getting the basics in place: a website, domain, hosting and a professional email address. They’re essential building blocks of doing business today, but they can also mean yet another set of things to get done. We found that more than four in ten sole traders and small businesses in Germany spend at least six hours a week on financial administration alone. That’s time that could otherwise be spent with customers, working on products or growing the business. Which is why we’re launching “Eigene Website” in Germany. The new tool makes it easy for sole traders and small businesses to build and manage a professional website themselves, without needing any previous technical know-how. A domain, hosting and three business email inboxes are all included. It’s another step in how we think about Tide as a business management platform. Entrepreneurs need more than a business account; they need the tools to manage the many different jobs that come with running a business, without having to stitch everything together across multiple providers. Banking, financing, administration and now website creation can all sit within one platform.

There’s nothing wrong with the way you set your business up three years ago. In fact, it was probably exactly what you needed at the time.🤫 You needed a way for people to book you, so you found one. You needed to send invoices, so you set that up. Then came the website, an email platform, somewhere for your contacts to live, maybe proposals, payments, a course, a funnel and eventually somewhere for the team to work..... I feel exhausted just thinking about it all🫣 . Bit by bit, you built a business around what you needed then. The funny thing is, nobody really tells you what to do when the business starts to outgrow all of that, because technically nothing is particularly wrong. . The invoices still go out, people can still book, the website is still there doing website things 😂, clients are coming in and the business is making money. But behind the scenes, you might be doing a lot more remembering, checking and jumping between places than you’d like. Your team still asks where something lives and, despite everyone’s best intentions, you’re still the person who knows how the bloody thing works. And I think this is a stage of business we don’t talk about enough. . 🔹The space between “I’ve built something that works” and “I’ve built something that feels really comfortable to run.” Because they’re not necessarily the same thing. . And getting from one to the other doesn’t mean starting again, buying another system or having someone come in and tell you everything you’ve built is wrong. 🔹Sometimes it’s simply looking at the business you have now, keeping the bits that still make sense, fixing the bits that don’t, connecting a few things and letting go of the things you’ve quietly outgrown. Because your business isn’t the same business you started with. Quite a lot has happened since then. ☕

🎓Entrepreneur Office Hours are BACK! I’m excited to bring back Entrepreneur Office Hours with Professor Reynolds — a monthly space where entrepreneurs can learn, ask questions, and strengthen the foundation of their businesses. Our first topic: 🏛️ Is Your Business Built on a Strong Foundation? Having a business is one thing. Building it correctly is another. We’ll talk about some of the fundamentals every entrepreneur should understand, including business structure, financial systems, recordkeeping, tax readiness, compliance, and good business practices. 📅 Thursday, September 3, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM 💻 Live via Zoom https://lnkd.in/gQBWZYDe Bring your questions. Bring your notebook. And yes... Professor Reynolds is officially back in Office Hours. 😄🎓 Whether you're just getting started or you've been in business for years, this conversation can help you identify areas that may need a little more attention. Building Better Businesses Through Education. 📚 Back to School for Entrepreneurs with Professor Reynolds 🌐 professorreynolds.com #EntrepreneurOfficeHours #BackToSchoolForEntrepreneurs #ProfessorReynolds #EntrepreneurEducation #SmallBusiness #BusinessFoundation #BusinessEducation #Entrepreneurs

Owning a business is HARD. Scaling one is even harder. 😂😭 And as funny as this video is… there’s a lot of truth behind it. According to data tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 20% of businesses don’t make it through the first year, around 50% are gone by year five, and about 65% are gone by year ten. There are obviously a lot of reasons businesses close, but one thing every business owner needs to understand is their finances. Because having a successful-looking business doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making money. You can have $500,000 in revenue and barely make a profit. You can be profitable on paper and still have cash-flow problems. You can double your sales and somehow feel like you have LESS money because payroll, marketing, inventory, taxes, software, contractors and overhead grew right along with you. And I think social media makes this even more confusing because we constantly hear business owners talking about revenue. “We had a $100K month!” Okay… but how much did the business actually keep? 👀 Here’s a question for my fellow business owners: If I asked you exactly how much profit your business made last month, could you tell me without checking? I think a lot more business owners than we realize would struggle to answer that. You don’t need to be an accountant, but you should understand your numbers. Know your revenue. Know your expenses. Understand your profit margins and cash flow. Plan for taxes. Build reserves. And know what you can actually afford to reinvest or pay yourself. Because revenue ≠ profit. And profit ≠ cash in the bank. Growing a business is exciting, but growth without understanding your finances can create a bigger problem instead of a bigger business. So yes, celebrate the sales and the big revenue months. 🥂 But please know what you actually made. Business owners… could you tell me your profit from last month without looking? 😂👇 #BusinessOwner #BusinessFinance #Entrepreneurship #SmallBusiness #WomenInBusiness For educational purposes only. Not individualized financial, tax, accounting, investment or legal advice.

There's a point in almost every business where the excitement wears off and the questions start. How much are we actually making? Where's the money going? What do we need to do next? How much do we need to grow? And the uncomfortable one nobody likes saying out loud: "Do we actually have a plan?" 😅 Doesn't matter what you sell, where you're based, or how big you've grown — every founder hits this point eventually. The gut-feeling way of running things stops being enough. Here's the thing though: a business plan shouldn't just be that document you throw together because a funder asked for one. It should help you understand the business you're actually running. Where you are. Where you're trying to go. What you need to get there. And what could get in the way. The problem is business planning usually feels like homework — heavy language, templates that don't fit your business, and projections that look impressive on paper but don't help you make a single better decision. That's why we just added My Business Plan to WATHACi Digital. It's a practical business-planning toolkit built for Zambian entrepreneurs and SMEs — something you actually sit down and work through, not something you fill in because someone told you to. It won't run your business for you 😂. But it can help you get your thinking, your numbers and your plans onto paper — and make some of those big decisions a little clearer. Which is really the bigger point. A business plan isn't supposed to impress anyone. It's supposed to help you understand your own business better. Because sometimes the person who most needs to understand the plan isn't the investor. It's the person running the business. So — genuine question: what's your relationship with business plans? Useful tool. Necessary evil. Or something you wrote once and it's been sleeping in a laptop folder ever since? 😂 We will email the full business plan toolkit for free to the first 10 people who signup on https://shop.wathaci.com. So please visit our store and you might be one of the lucky one. Ciao .

You can’t fix what you can’t see. When something in a business isn’t working, we naturally look at the variables we can see. The offer. The messaging. The pricing. The funnel. The content. The ads. The strategy. Those things matter. But there’s another variable in the business equation that most business advice doesn’t account for: The person running the business. How you make decisions. How you communicate and build trust. How you create, lead and sell. How you use your energy. And the difference between what you’re capable of doing and what actually makes sense for you to keep building. That distinction matters more than I understood for a very long time. Because two entrepreneurs can come to me with what looks like the exact same business problem and need completely different next moves. One needs more visibility. The other needs to stop creating and sell what she already has. One needs to simplify her offer. The other may be trying to force herself into a business model that makes perfect sense on paper but was never going to create the freedom she built the business for. Same apparent problem. Different person. Different answer. That’s one of the reasons I created Business Code. I start with your birth data because it gives me another layer of information about you, the person building the business. Then I bring that together with what’s actually happening in your business and the specific problem you’re trying to solve. It’s not about letting a chart run your business. It’s about making sure you are actually part of the equation. Because sometimes the thing keeping us stuck isn’t another piece of information we need to learn. It’s something we haven’t been able to see yet. Your Design. Your Business. Your Freedom. Get your personalized Seven-Figure Business Code Map™  https://lnkd.in/geisFdCE

𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟯𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 I just spent two days at a business conference in Sydney. Tony Robbins and Steven Bartlett were the main key speakers. The best moment wasn't on stage. It was in the bathroom. Two young guys just starting out stopped me and asked what advice I would give them. I didn't have to think long, because I learnt this lesson myself. I didn't start my business until I was 35. What held me back was waiting for a unique idea. I thought a real business had to be something nobody had done before. Meanwhile the answer was sitting right in front of me. I could take what I was already doing for my employer and do it for myself, just do it better. I only saw that after I'd spent time building my business skills, reading and going to events like this one. So, this is what I told them: YOU DON'T NEED A UNIQUE IDEA Do what others already do just do it better. Keep your promise, then overdeliver on it. Make each customer feel like the only one. Automate whatever slows you down. Get 1% better every day and the gap to your competitors gets wide, fast. DON'T STOP GROWING YOUR SKILLS The reading and the events are what opened my eyes. Being static is how good business owners and business become average. Robbins and Bartlett said close to the same thing from the main stage. That made me smile. It's simple advice, just not easy to follow. It changed my life and business. It can do the same for you. What would you have said to them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Marco Formaggio. I help stuck owners of professional services firms take their businesses from 7-to 8-figure revenue and enjoy the journey.

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STOP RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS ON VIBES. Yes, I said what I said. 😂 And before you misunderstand me, I'm not saying you're not serious about your business. I'm saying that if you are making important business decisions based mostly on assumptions, memory, feelings and guesswork, you may be running your business on vibes without even realizing it. You make sales, but you don't know exactly how much you made this month. Money enters your account, but you can't clearly tell how much of it is business money, how much is profit and how much you've already spent. You price your products or services because “that's what everybody is charging.” You withdraw money whenever you need it because, after all, “it's my business.” You want to hire someone, open another branch or expand, but you don't have the numbers to tell you whether the business is ready. And at the end of the month, when someone asks: “So, how much did your business actually make?” You start doing mental mathematics. 😂 That's running a business on vibes. And many business owners are doing it. Not because they are lazy. Not because they don't want to succeed. Sometimes, they simply were never taught how to properly understand and structure the business they are running. But here's the problem - You cannot build a predictable business with guesswork. At some point, you have to know your numbers. You have to understand your cash. You have to separate business money from personal money. You need records You need processes You need systems You need to know what is actually working and what is quietly draining your business. Your instincts can help you make decisions. But your numbers should be able to support those decisions. It's time to stop running your business on vibes and start running it with structure. This is a conversation I'm going to be having a lot more about. Because being in business is one thing. Understanding the business you're building is another. I'm Udoka Success #WealthGridConsultingLtd #TheNoVibesBusiness #BusinessStructure #KnowYourNumbers #SmallBusinessNigeria #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneurship

I don't work with businesses that are struggling. I work with businesses that are succeeding and want to stop being the ceiling of their own growth. These owners are good at what they do. Clients love them. Revenue is solid. But the owner can't take a real vacation. The business can't run without them for more than a few days. New team members get dropped in with no real training. Financial decisions get made on gut feel. Sound familiar? This is owner dependency — and it's the quiet limiter of growth potential. The good news: it's fixable. My book walks you through exactly how. It's free for Acadiana business owners. Get it at adamoperationsgroup.com. #OwnerDependency #BusinessSystems #AcadianaEntrepreneur #AdaptOrBeManaged