Blake Berke, CPA

Inc. 5000 x 4. Specialty Contractor leader. Consulting and facilitating leadership teams to achieve their biggest goals in Sioux Falls and Omaha. CPA.

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@MediaKing Self awareness is key.

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@SMB_Attorney Reframed - emotionally controlled. Doesn’t mean I don’t feel it. Recognize it, acknowledge it, but rise above it. Soon, those steps blend together and it’s the natural response to good and bad.

Control the controllables.

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@Camp4 We’re visiting just north of that area in France now. Has us reconsidering a lot about our future (kids school, activities, etc.) and how we can test run it. Our server while in Como recently transplanted his family from NYC. Amazing area.

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@BojanRadojici10 Please send

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@jspujji LinkedIn

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@jspujji GrowthAssistant

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@timsweetman Works for phone calls and digital also. Just need to set it near your speaker/mic. AI options:

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@timsweetman Found Plaud to be best. Can record long, in person meetings. I use it for all consulting sessions. It can only transcribe up to 5 hour blocks at a time right now.

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@timsweetman @xoffpoppe Yes, but excess noise isn’t ideal.

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@thesamparr @JereSimpson Outside the room: best practices of the tools, framework, and keep you on track faster.

Inside the room: the team fully participates in the quarterly. Nobody on the team has to wear facilitator hat. Keeps things unbiased and an experienced outsider to challenge the team.

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@skylarromines I use airlines as an easy example to educate clients on marketing differentiators.

Allegiant: Cheap
Delta: More premium options
Southwest: Bags fly fr…. 🤷‍♂️

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@sweatystartup Plaud. Also has longest listening capability for long meetings.

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@realEstateTrent Examples like HorsePower Today (Omaha) are becoming increasingly common. Essentially pooling the talented professionals who don’t want to sell their services and HPT sources the opportunity & manages the account.

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@lawyer4SMBs Define the amount you want to save, spend rest freely. Establish boundaries on large purchases such as mortgage/rent payment as % of take home.

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@SMB_Attorney What’s the plan to unwind? All with similar buy-sell agreements? Forced buy-out at passing?

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@lawyer4SMBs It’s right until it isn’t.

There’s also middle ground of equity-like/equity-based comp.

At the end of the day, it’s likely that high level fulfillment won’t come until you take the leap.

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@SullyBusiness Taxes and lifestyle business choices. Most buyers will count as SDE and add back if the business is ever put up for sale.

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@LeadershipAcad1 What additional decision making data are you trying to get from allocating rent (really any OH item) to your COGS?

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@realtylerhannon Correct, recapture still applies.

Incremental value is with me assuming you’re selling the original vehicle to replace with a new one.