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Link Library Case Study | Business HacksIn this season premiere, we dive into a real case study: how a project that placed second-to-last in a competition became a 3-year journey of pivots, persistence, and unexpected success.Links:➡️ Main Portal: https://www.blogelist.com ➡️ Blogelist Business: https://www.blogelist.com/blog/category/business➡️ Interactive Brokers: https://ibkr.com/referral/pawel672➡️ Blog Post: https://www.blogelist.com/blog/2025/11/03/link-library-case-study/

Summary from Warren Buffett letter from February 2025 in audio. Episode include:Table of Content:➡️Mistakes➡️Pete Liegl story➡️Last Year’s Performance ➡️Berkshire TAX records➡️Where our money as shareholders are? ➡️Property-Casualty Insurance ➡️Japanese Investments ➡️The Annual Gathering in Omaha

During years at business school, I learned plenty of tools for entrepreneurs starting their business. None of them were as useful for my small business as the Pestel Analysis. In this episode, I will tell you how small business market analysis can be enhanced with this decision making tool, also called PEST or PESTLE. There are also explanations about the decision making process, its steps and examples of the questions you should ask.

There are a few essential skills needed for the service industry. Communication is just part of it. In this episode, I will tell you how my firm (a small business in the hospitality industry) benefited from better practices of customer service.

With the example of lemonade stands, I explain how market barriers will influence your business competitiveness. Small businesses should be especially aware that low entry barriers can be a challenge and become a major risk for the future of any business. But there are ways to overcome this danger.

One of the most asked questions around is how to spend less money and save more. A good first step is to improve your consumer habits. Yearsago I adopted the process of asking myself 3 questions before buying anything,This helped me to live a life debt-free, and even impacted positively in my life as a small business owner.

There is one type of ally that can skyrocket the beginning of your business. They are the local allies, as the roman proved 2000 years ago. Forming a small business growth alliance can be an essential step in guaranteeing market advantages to your enterprise, and in this video, I will tell you why.

Competitive analysis in strategic management is rarely focused on small business. Therefore, entrepreneurs have little to zero information about tools like the SWOT, and miss more sophisticated method on how to analyse business competitors.In this episode, I will explain to you how to analyze your market competitors if you are starting a business and briefly give you a competitive analysis template that can be used in most industries.

If you ever heard about the concepts of Deep Work, Deliberate Practice or the Craftsman Mindset, or read authors like Cal Newport, Amy Wrzesniewski, or Daniel Coyle, you know the problem with the passion mindset. If it is not the case, watch this video.Job, career, and calling are not the same things. Understanding the difference between these, and discover where you are in your professional life will change one thing or two about your plans for the future. It changed mine.

Do you know the concept of Deep Work created by Cal Newport? In this video, I will tell you how to apply deep work and use it as one of the most powerful entrepreneur productivity hacks I ever saw!Before, my to-do list was very limited. With the increasing productivity from learning how to focus and getting rid of distractions, I could do much more for my business, and life!You have the potential to be a best-seller writer or a breakthrough entrepreneur. But you need is to stop distracting yourself from your future achievements. Time to leave the social media timeline and build your story.

Forgot how to focus? Maybe the reason is the fever of multitasking. For decades this "skill" was praised, but now we know it harms memory retention (even causing memory loss), increases stress, and lowers IQ.Does multitasking make you dumber? What Multitasking does to your brain? These and other questions were answered by authors like Cal Newport and Nir Eyal. In this episode, we give you an answer in 7 minutes.

Learning negotiation techniques is necessary when you have a business and even more during a crisis. Last year I read Never split the difference by Chris Voss. The negotiation skills he taught helped me to renegotiate things like the rent, and survive the crisis. Methods like Isopraxism (mirroring), calibrated questions, the late-night DJ voice, and a series of negotiation tips that are helpful to anyone running a company. A salary negotiation will run a different way after learning the methods of this former FBI agent.

Making a business plan for a small business in 2021, with the reopening of the economy, requires more than ever a certain tool. A tool long used for anyone asking how to write a business plan: the PESTEL (or PESTLE) analysis.In this episode, you will understand how the PESTEL model can help you to write a business plan for startups, cafes, restaurants, or nearly any business that faces challenges of uncontrollable variables. If your questions are about how to make a business plan for beginners or for a proposal, than this video will give you the resource you need to use this tool also called PESTLE.

Have you ever wondered how to create a sense of ownership at the workplace? In this video, discover the essential lessons to startup founders from one of the awarded captains of the US Navy: Michael Abrashoff.When I opened my first business, I struggled with this problem. I even asked myself what really is sense of ownership. But after reading the book "Its your ship" by Mike Abrashoff, my doubts were solved. It helped me with my employees.

Among leadership skills training topics, it is unusual to ask what business can learn from the military. But a legendary field marshall from Brazil can offer you some of the greatest leadership lessons from a general in history!In this episode, leadership skills training topics converge with business lessons from military strategy using the example of the Duke of Caxias, also known as The Peacemaker. He is one of the responsibles for the unity of Brazil as a single country

The importance of setting objectives in business, career and studies is a common topic. Often we set goals that are not measurable, or not achievable, sometimes not even time-bound. This is a recipe for frustration, and in this video you will learn how to use the SMART method, why smart goals are important and how to set them in business, for employees, or for your own development.

Do you have a micromanagement problem at your workplace? In this video, I will tell you how to reduce bureaucracy in business. Unless you live in some dystopian reality, your situation is similar to what John Seddon described as plagued by control thinking. The solution he proposes (and that worked for hundreds of his customers) is called systems thinking. An interesting, scientific-based approach in answering the question about how to defeat bureaucracy.

It is key to good customer service building good relationships with customers. Thanking the client, promoting a positive, helpful, and friendly environment. This helps to ensure they leave with a great impression. A happy customer will return often and is likely to spend more. Basic science.In this video, I will show you the 5 principles of exceptional customer service. They are much more than customer service tips for small businesses. These are things I learned in my life as an entrepreneur in the hospitality and consulting industries. Things that are also part of the business leaders' playbooks.

You have a great idea for a product or service. It’s so good, that you think you can start a new business and eventually thrive because of this idea. That’s great and all, but the last thing you should do is rush into this without doing a bit of market research. And by doing a “bit” of research, we actually mean doing extensive” research. Not doing your market research is a sure way to doom your business before you even get it off the ground. You need to know the nature of the business as well as figure out who your target demographic is. And don’t rely on basic public data – this simply isn’t enough. Here are the following ways that you can do research in order to prepare yourself to properly start a business.

As entrepreneurs, we all follow our own paths. For some, the rise to financial success is a long, slow, painful process. For others, things just seem to magically fall into place. Often the latter isn’t a result of magic but the sign of an entrepreneur who understands the importance of learning from, adapting to and growing with his business.This episode is about 9 business lessons entrepreneurs must learn in order to build a long-term, healthy and sustainable business. CEO lessons from someone that turned a small company into the one responsible for the processing units of 80% of all computers on the planet.

Today I'm going to share with you how the teachings contained in the Incerto Series from Nassim Nicholas Taleb helped me to save my business during the pandemic economical crisis (which maybe was not a black swan).The Incerto is a series of books composed of 5 volumes: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Hundreds of great business books come out every year. It's not possible to read them all, so I separated the best business books (by readers and considering positive reviews after their publication dates).Here are seven great business books that can help entrepreneursand leaders at all stages of their careers.