While I understand the initial fear of traveling and the dilemma of meeting people on the road, I’ve actually found that it’s harder to meet people in your home country.  In L.A. where I live a lot of people are in their routines an…

I’ve recently come to have a greater appreciation for Batman thanks to this tweet.  The reality is that Batman, like any startup business owner, had to build his skills from scratch.  What he needed for the first part of his journey …

Ideally all business owners want a consistent and profitable stream of leads that don’t cost a lot of money to acquire.  But that stream doesn’t just magically appear.  You have to build it.  The good news is that I’…

A common question you find on Reddit and Twitter from those who are aspiring to business ownership is: Do I quit my job and just go for it, or do I side hustle my way to success? Once you get into business ownership and your accountants start aski…

On a recent episode of the Remote Local Podcast, David Lahav and I tossed around the concept of time zones in relation to our local businesses and we learned some interesting things about each other. David had been running a business in Colorado fo…

One of the aspects I love about the #remotelocal life is the ability to run your business from anywhere.  While some people might visualize that as a laptop on the beach, for those serious about growing their businesses, that “live anywhe…

On a recent episode of the Remote Local Podcast, fellow host David Lahav asked a key question for anyone interested in market research on local competition: “What are my odds of leading the market and how hard will it be?”  David an…

Some of you may know the story I shared in the first episode of the Remote Local Podcast in which I shared that it was a thread on Reddit that led me to start a cleaning business.  Little did I know that eight years later I’d have a chanc…

In Episode 15 of the podcast David said:  If you don't have ten minutes a day to meditate, you need two hours." I'm sure many of you have heard a variant of this quote before and some, like me, just laughed.  That's because the idea …