This content was created by MARK KOHLER. This content was uploaded by MARK KOHLER. This is a YouTube video titled "Doing the Small Things - Main Street Cruise | Mark J Kohler | CPA | Attorney" (created 2018-07-24). It features Mark Kohler speaking from Marietta, Georgia (mentioning a Renatus Group workshop) giving a short talk aimed at small-business owners about the importance of routine small tasks—bookkeeping, written contracts, returning calls/emails, showing up to meetings—as the foundation for long-term success. A second participant (labeled SPEAKER B) interjects and supports the points throughout.
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All right, Mark Kohler here coming from another Main street in America.
I just love America and I love small business and I love Main Streets. They're everywhere.
Right.
Well, I'm in Marietta, Georgia, down here to see my clients doing a little workshop for the Renatus Group tomorrow and Saturday and just want to give a tip here. These little Main street tips I hope
are going to help a lot of
you in some big ways with your small business.
So while I'm driving around looking for a Waffle House, I need one in a big way, you know what I'm saying down here in Georgia.
Anyway, the small things.
I want to talk about the small things.
There's a lot of business owners that think it's the next big sale.
I got to land this client, I've
got to close this real estate deal
and my business will be successful or I'm going to have all this money
and the long term success of an entrepreneur. And my clients that have successful have dedicated themselves to the small things. The small things are what makes the difference. Examples like just having good bookkeeping skills,
making sure you're recording things accurately, that you're not throwing cash everywhere you've got a bank account for your small business.
The little things of just making sure you've got written contracts and agreements and not just doing everything on a handshake. It's the little things are returning phone calls, returning emails, showing up where you're
supposed to be going to the meetings
every week, even if they don't feel like they're really productive.
Those little things, those consistent things are what make you a good business owner. It's not closing the big sale.
The big sales not going to come
if you're not doing the little things. To quote the infamous Kevin Costner, if you build it. They will come, of course, from Field of Dreams.
And that's the point. How can divine providence bless you with more success in your business? How are you going to find scientific success in your business if you're not
doing the little things? They give you that blessing. Those little things that build the equation, you've got to add all the ingredients and those ingredients are the little things.
You miss one little thing, it can
blow the big sale. So anyway, driving around here on Main street, hoping you are too, building your dream on Main Street, America, wherever you're at, don't forget the little things. Make sure you're dedicated to those. Be disciplined and all of a sudden those big deals will happen, I promise you.
