If you aren’t growing, you are dying, but the hardest part about growing is maintaining quality. As you hire more folks, expand to new locations, industries, etc. it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the high quality you provided to your clients when you first started. It’s an incredibly difficult problem and so we reached out to some phenomenal entrepreneurs and asked them to share their stories, experiences and insights on the topic with us below.

Lester & Yesenia

Quality control is really important. I’ve learned over the years , that anything you make , has representation of your name, your brand. As the years go by, you have to maintain a high level of quality to whatever it is you do. In the beginning, you may not have all the skills or talents for the job, but you do have the opportunity to learn and become better. You need to have a steady progress, never a decline. Read more>>

Carol Hernandez

At Vey’s Painting and Refinishing, we stand out from the rest because of the quality of our work and the relationships we build with our clients. As we begin to grow our business, we continue to look for ways that we can maintain the quality of work, even on those jobs we may send a crew to complete. Vey’s attention to detail is what keeps our clients returning year after year and as we grow we make sure that we are present at each job along the way to ensure that the job is being done as close to perfect as possible. Read more>>

Erin Ustaoglu

Thankfully I began my legal career working at a large national law firm. I worked for the firm for over a year before I graduated from law school, first as a case clerk and then as a summer associate. The processes and procedures that I was required to learn and use consistently every day in each of my roles turned out to be invaluable to me when I opened my own law firm. While I may have taken my “filing duties” a bit too seriously as a case clerk, I remember very clearly the importance of organization, proper labeling and complying with the firm’s drafting standards. Read more>>