Posts by Brandon Green
How Brandon Green Consulting can help small businesses survive the COVID crisis
When the market crashed in 2008 it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was unprepared. As a result, I sat at the precipice of financial collapse until I figured out how to pivot, be successful, and grow during a recession. It was painful. This time it has been the speed of change that…
Read MoreThe Black Swan
For most of us, this is the Black Swan event that will define our career. How are you doing so far? I was in the early years of my real estate business when 2008 hit and I learned a few things I’ve been deploying the last couple weeks I thought I’d share. Speed matters. As…
Read MoreWhat Inspires Me During a Difficult Week
Who can adequately describe the last seven days? Experiences like this are beyond language and will be told best by artists, philosophers, and historians in the years to come. I’ve been in emergency triage mode this week speaking with our teams, securing our finances, cutting expenses, canceling commitments, and brainstorming ways to make lemonade out…
Read MoreFocus Forward, it Helps.
This coming week is likely to be chaotic and full of twists and turns. It’s incredibly stressful right now to adjust to so many things so significantly, all at once. And by all measures, we are all going to be susceptible to a variety of increasingly aggressive measures to contain the virus. There is little…
Read MoreMaking some early predictions: How will Covid-19 affect us in business?
Two months are burned into my memory. September 2001, and October 2008. And now a third – March 2020. In 2001 and 2008 things were indeed never the same and now, in March 2020, we will look back on this month with some nostalgia and say the same. While the next several months are likely…
Read MoreAre you running your business or is your business running you?
In business, we say, “hold your money accountable” often with a finger shake at ourselves or at others. But what does that actually mean and how do you do it? The adage might have come from its cousin “you have to spend money to make money.” So let’s take a look at these and see…
Read MoreHow to practically improve the direction of your business
Trying to improve your life and your business? You may have heard the following advice… Create a Vision Board! No, you should Think Bigger! Or, get better at Goal Setting. Actually, it all starts with Daily Affirmations! Let’s face it, there is a lot of advice out there about how to make things better for yourself. Heck, an entire industry has…
Read MoreTackling Social Media Step by Step
I’ve been getting some questions this week about digital media strategy and execution and my experience these last several months. Late last spring I decided to become an expert in this space and realized I was very far from it. Still am. Though I have been diving deep as a practitioner and have learned a…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Revitalize Our Lives in a Meaningful Way in 2020
Late this past fall I was driving to an appointment when a call came in from a very good friend. I was pretty sure I knew what he was calling about. For the last year and a half, he had been struggling with a decision to leave his company and start anew. It was an…
Read MoreWhat I’ve Read in 2019
A friend of mine Christopher Schroeder recently wrote this post on LinkedIn, highlighting the best books he’s read this year. He worked through 110 books in 2019 and it made me wonder, how many books did I read in 2019 and what were they? It turns out it was far less than Chris’ 110, though…
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