Have you ever had a friend look at a business and randomly throw out numbers that made it seem like that business owner must be making serious bank? We’ve experienced that many times, and know from conversations with operators and owners in those industries that their real profitability is often far, far less. The reason is often that there are unique challenges to profitability in almost every industry and so we wanted to create a space for entrepreneurs from across industries and markets to discuss the challenges to profitability in their industries.

John Marshall

One of the biggest issues of profitability in this industry is inflation. As we all know, prices for goods have skyrocketed recently, and attempting to serve our products while maintaining the standards we’ve set for ourselves and our products (i.e. serving our juice in glass bottles so there’s no plastic chemical leakage or keeping our juice organic) is costlier than alternative options (using plastic bottles or not using organic produce). Read more>>

Evan Price

Oh gosh, the creative industry has struggled with profitability for a long time. That stigma of a “starving artist” is something I have been aiming to demolish since I started over a decade ago. I think the main struggle is creatives inability to charge more for their services. They think by charging less they are staying competitive, but it’s actually hurting them more. Read more>>