Jonathan Fruitman

Most small business owners look at the challenges they endured in their early start up days as a presumed rite of passage. In the face of adversity and against all odds, they’ve persevered through hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and grit – all while facing a seemingly endless gauntlet of trials, tribulations, and even self-doubt. If […]

Building, managing, and expanding your dream team is no easy feat! Consider just some of the challenges: balancing workloads, industry seasonality, financial obligations, team morale considerations, training, updating processes, WSIB implications, payroll, office space, associated admin work – and we haven’t even started the interviewing process! Difficult? Yes. Worth it? You bet! Though many in our […]

If you could go back to in time to give your bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, fresh-faced self a few tidbits of career advice, where would you start? Do you think your retrospective sagely wisdom could shorten your path to success or maybe even help avoid some of the inevitable bumps in the road we’ve all encountered? Perhaps […]

As industry professionals and business owners, we are all-too-often confronted with the seemingly monumental demands that our work places on our lives: late nights, long hours, no weekends, client meetings, team meetings, heavy traffic, mounting paperwork and skipped meals are but few of the key “industry perks” that many of us sign up for. When […]

In our industry, when it rains, it pours. For many of us, it often pours so heavily that by the time the proverbial sun comes out, we’re eager to enjoy every ounce of well-deserved “beach time”. But have you ever thought about some of the most optimal ways to make the most of this scarce […]