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.

Laura, Tara, Sean Sanfilippo, Heffernon, Kelley

As a restaurant and bar, labor is our biggest expense and high labor is the biggest challenge to our profitability. We are in California wine country in an area where the costs of labor on top of wages like payroll tax and workers comp insurance is very high. Read more>>

Ntxhi Song

Surviving the lengthy sale cycles in Hotel Investment Sales stands as the greatest challenge. This career path operates on a commission-based pay structure, fostering a “eat what you kill” mindset. The pressing question is: how does one navigate financially until the first hotel sale materializes? Read more>>

Rob Simmons

Nowadays with phones and the cameras in them, there are actually more photos taken in one day than in the history of all of photography before the advent of the camera phone. Read more>>