Mind The Business: Small Business Success Stories

Congrats! You started making money from your business. Now how do you manage your finances so you don’t take any steps back? Hosts Austin and Jannese unpack the different types of business accounts and explain how to track your cash flow while determining which costs can be reduced. The hosts are later joined by Harlem Chocolate Factory founder, Jessica Spaulding who shares her story about how she learned to adjust her accounting processes to accommodate the success of her growing business.

Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you manage your business:

• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/payments/manage-cash-flow/
• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/payments/quickbooks-checking/

For more insights on cash flow and money management, visit:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/cash-flow/what-is-cash-flow/

For key takeaways from this week’s episode, visit:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-episode-3/

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As a new business, it may take a few years before you reach profitability, but that doesn’t mean you can’t quickly reach success. Using a mix of the marketing, financing, and money management tools discussed in earlier episodes, many small business owners can create very achievable benchmarks in their early stages that support the path to profits. Emily Doyle and Mei Kwok, founders of Dune Suncare, share with us some of the early decisions they made that helped their company experience substantial growth in their first three years.

Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business:

• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/accounting/
• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/accounting/track-expenses/

For more insights around early stage company management, visit:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/the-7-most-important-kpis-to-track-as-a-small-business/

For key takeaways from this week’s episode, visit:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/running-a-business/mind-the-business-episode-4/

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The lifeblood of a small business is its customers. Going the extra mile to provide easy payment methods and clear communication can mean the difference between a couple of sales, and a couple hundred. Jannese and Austin discuss what they love to encounter as customers patronizing a business, and the customer service strategies for their own endeavors. And Jordan Rose joins the conversation to talk about how she built her Etsy shop, Fresh Prints of SF, based on inclusivity and catering to demographics that are too often uncatered to. We’ll learn about the financial incentives to earning a customer’s trust and keeping them happy as you turn your target market into a community.

Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business:

• Quickbooks.com
• QuickBooks for Solopreneurs

For a recap from this week’s episode visit: Episode 3 Recap with Jordan Rose

Or learn more about this topic at this resource: How to Give Great Customer Service

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Seeing your small business grow can be exciting, but staying on top of that growth can be difficult for a solopreneur or a small team. As demand increases, how do you keep dollars coming in and products and services going out without breaking your original business model? Unchecked expansion can lead to painful downsizing after the initial rush - which no entrepreneur wants to have to deal with. Hosts Jannese and Austin will be discussing effective small business scaling: growing your company steadily and sustainably. Daniel and Michael Jay of the LazyButtClub Clothing Company talk about their experience with doing just that. They run a small family-owned apparel line with a global audience on TikTok. They’ll tell us how they keep their lifestyle business going strong while maintaining a small team even as they service customers all over the world.

Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business:

• Quickbooks.com
• QuickBooks for Solopreneurs

For a recap from this week’s episode visit:

Episode 2 Recap with Daniel and Michael Jay of The LazyButtClub Clothing Company

Or learn more about this topic at this resource:

How to Grow a Business

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Your favorite podcast about the exciting journey of entrepreneurship is back for a second season! Join hosts Jannese Torres (Yo Quiero Dinero & Financially Lit!) and Austin Hankwitz (Rate of Return & Rich Habits) as they share more great stories from small business owners and entrepreneurs alike and guide you toward the best tools and resources to jumpstart your own business with the help of Intuit QuickBooks. Listen to new episodes featuring interviews with entrepreneurs from a wide array of backgrounds and across multiple different industries as they detail the challenges and rewards that come with owning your own business.

Learn more about how QuickBooks can help you grow your business:

• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/
• https://quickbooks.intuit.com/get-money/

For more resources and insights on how to scale your business, visit:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/growing-a-business/

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