Frozen Fingers: What Are You Willing to Do to Win
Before the podcast network, before the businesses, Jeremy Hanson drove a truck-washing route through the Wisconsin winter. Twenty hour days in snow and single digit temperatures, pressure washer lines freezing solid, soaked…
Only Ten Extra Minutes
“It’ll only take an extra ten minutes.” Jeremy Hanson shows how that one sentence can cost a 22-technician company $154,440 to $228,800 a year and up to $1.14 million over five.
What to do when customers quit spending money
When business slows down, most owners assume their customers are out of money. Jeremy Hanson argues that in most downturns the money is still there, but customers have grown far more selective…
When It’s Time to Cut People Out of Your Life
Every entrepreneur has a version of the eleven-forty phone call. The name that appears on the screen before you look at it. The crisis you didn’t cause and are expected to solve.…
Build It to Sell It: Why the Three-Year Service Business May Be One of the Best Investments You’re Overlooking
Most entrepreneurs build a business they intend to keep forever, and a surprising number of them end up owning a job with a logo painted on the side of a truck. In…
Summer is Over — Time to Get Optimized
Everything between the markers goes into the RSS.com notes editor as written. Plain text. No bold, no headings, no manual hyperlinks. Type the URLs raw and let the apps linkify them, because…
What is the Best Version of You?
What is the best version of you? Not the richest version. Not the version with the biggest company. The version that exists when nobody is watching.Most entrepreneurs can tell you their revenue…
How to Raise Kids Who Are Not Afraid to Work | Building Work Ethic, Responsibility & Resilience
How do you raise kids who aren’t afraid of hard work? In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, Jeremy explores how parents can teach children work ethic, responsibility, resilience, discipline,…
Give Them the Compass, Not the Map: Raising Entrepreneurs for 2035
A man once bought the biggest Yellow Pages ad in his county. Full page, back cover, eighteen thousand dollars a year, and it built his company for two decades. He kept renewing…
The Cheaper Marketing Gets, the More Expensive Good Marketing Becomes
AI is making marketing faster, easier, and cheaper than ever. But that doesn’t mean great marketing is becoming cheaper.It’s actually becoming more expensive.As AI-generated emails, ads, social posts, videos, and sales messages…