Entrepreneurship

The Solopreneur to Entrepreneur Transition

I work directly with expert solopreneurs to help them make this shift, to build a small agency that supports their…

John Doherty November 13, 2025
Entrepreneurship

Rest At The End, Not In The Middle

“Rest at the end, not in the middle.” This is a quote from the late Kobe Bryant, which has been…

John Doherty December 21, 2024
Entrepreneurship

More Work, Sooner – The Secret to Success

There’s a concept that has served me well throughout my career that I’ve never been able to voice before until…

John Doherty June 24, 2024
Entrepreneurship

How To Use Pricing Strategically As A Growth Lever In Your Business

Pricing. It’s one of the topics in the entrepreneurship/startup world that’s full of ideas and anecdotes like “raise your prices!”…

John Doherty June 21, 2024
Entrepreneurship

Leaving It All On The Table

I’ll be transparent with you – from about the end of 2021 to mid-2023, I dealt with pretty intense burnout. …

John Doherty February 19, 2024
Entrepreneurship

My 2023 Recap

What a year, y’all. This is my 2023 recap and is meant to chronicle the big things that happened, both…

John Doherty January 15, 2024
Entrepreneurship

If not now, when? (A reflection on anxiety and choice).

My family moved into a new house in March 2023. With an expanding family and my wife and I both…

John Doherty December 2, 2023
Entrepreneurship

Maybe You Need To Do…More?

I talk to a lot of business owners and in-house marketers. A common trope I hear is that they’re testing…

John Doherty September 22, 2023
Entrepreneurship

Are you still selling during the proposal process?

Imagine you’re going somewhere to meet up with friends. You’ve plugged the location into Google Maps, you know what time…

John Doherty August 3, 2023
Miscellany

The Bar Is (Hilariously) Low

Want to know how to succeed in business? Do the work that others are not willing to do, or simply…

John Doherty July 9, 2023
Entrepreneurship

3 Frameworks That Changed My Life

Those of you who know me, know that I’m all about personal development. I work hard to improve myself, for…

John Doherty April 22, 2023
Entrepreneurship

6 things entrepreneurs should do in an economic downturn

On my personal podcast recently, I shared my take on “the upcoming recession” (spoiler: I don’t think we are in…

John Doherty January 9, 2023
Entrepreneurship

Short term solutions vs long term solutions

I’m sick right now. I caught some sort of cough thing (not Covid) when I was in Virginia for the…

John Doherty January 2, 2023
Entrepreneurship

“What if this was easy?”

I often get caught in the trap of thinking that anything worth doing “should” be hard. It’s a perfectionist tendency…

John Doherty August 23, 2022
Entrepreneurship

Unlimited resources

I recently listened to a great podcast episode from Brene Brown, that was published in September 2020, titled “Stretching and…

John Doherty July 21, 2022
Entrepreneurship

The slow lane – purposefully

I do a lot of highway driving up and back from the mountains between our house in Denver and our…

John Doherty July 19, 2022
Entrepreneurship

You owe it to others to sell them your services

In my day to day, I do a lot of hiring and selling. Professionally, I have two companies – Credo…

John Doherty May 24, 2022
Entrepreneurship

The number one secret to growing a successful productized service business

I’ve run productized service businesses for the last six and a half years. In that time, my businesses have made…

John Doherty April 26, 2022
Entrepreneurship

How I doubled my business by simplifying and prioritizing what we work on

One of the biggest challenges digital entrepreneurs face when building products meant to solve a problem and make them money…

John Doherty April 23, 2022
Entrepreneurship

Respond, Don’t React

I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I also have a hot temper. Those two do not go together…

John Doherty July 30, 2021

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