Optimized Entrepreneur

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…

"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.

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…

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.…

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…

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? 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 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,…

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…

There is a survey stake in a field within a hundred miles of your business right now, and eighteen months from now it will be a substation, a battery plant, or a…