Entrepreneurship

Gross Profit vs. Net Profit: How to Calculate Both (And Why It Matters for Growth)

If you don't know your gross profit and net profit numbers, you can't make good decisions about hiring, marketing, or…

John Doherty June 18, 2026
Entrepreneurship

How to Build Your Agency’s Irresistible Offer that People Buy Instead of Being Sold To

Most agency offers are commoditized and hard to say yes to. Here are the four components of an offer that…

John Doherty June 18, 2026
Entrepreneurship

How to Get Your $250K/Year Agency Unstuck

Stuck around $15–20K/month with no time and thin margins? Here's exactly what I did to break through — and what…

John Doherty June 18, 2026
Entrepreneurship

12 Steps to Doubling Your Agency Revenue

Most agency owners try to grow by pouring more leads into a leaky bucket. Here are the 12 steps I…

John Doherty June 15, 2026
Entrepreneurship

How to Make ANY Solo or Agency Offer Scalable

If scaling your service business feels impossible, the problem isn't your work ethic — it's your offer. Here are 6…

John Doherty June 15, 2026
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

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