21 Hats Podcast
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Dashboard: Gene Marks Is Not a Fan of Mandated PTO
21 mins; March 27, 2023
I Can’t Have a Handle on Everything
36 mins; March 21, 2023
Dashboard: Bank As I Say, Not As I Do
19 mins; March 20, 2023
For Wunderkeks, It Really Is Go Big or Go Home
46 mins; March 14, 2023
Dashboard: Taxes, Regulation, and a Punch to the Face
22 mins; March 13, 2023
Marketing Workshop: Turning a Failing Nut Shop into Nuts.com
49 mins; March 07, 2023
Dashboard: The Three Reports Every Business Owner Needs
24 mins; March 06, 2023
What It Means to Break $1 Million in Revenue
46 mins; February 28, 2023
Dashboard: Coping With HR Issues Without an HR Staff
20 mins; February 27, 2023
Marketing Workshop: Selling Cookies on LinkedIn
43 mins; February 21, 2023
Dashboard: The Price of Tipping, Virtual Offices, and Men’s Underwear
22 mins; February 20, 2023
ESOPs Are Great. But Not for Me
53 mins; February 14, 2023
Dashboard: The Good News About Gen Z
22 mins; February 13, 2023
Walking Away From a Salary
43 mins; February 07, 2023
Dashboard: So You Think Building a Business in the U.S. Is Hard?
22 mins; February 06, 2023
How Much Profit Should Your Business Make?
49 mins; January 31, 2023
Dashboard: Getting an SBA Loan With No Down Payment
19 mins; January 30, 2023
Why Isn’t This Product Selling?
48 mins; January 24, 2023
Dashboard: ChatGPT, Salesforce CRM, and the Employee-Contractor Dilemma
22 mins; January 23, 2023
Bonus Episode: A New Way to Sell Your Business
43 mins; January 20, 2023
I’ve Always Been Afraid to Raise Prices
50 mins; January 17, 2023
Dashboard: The State of Small Business, 2023
25 mins; January 16, 2023
How’s Your Compensation Plan Holding Up?
50 mins; January 10, 2023
Dashboard: Check Out the New Retirement Rules
20 mins; January 09, 2023
The Hard-Nosed Business Case for Employee Ownership
56 mins; January 03, 2023
Dashboard: Business Regulation Even Business Owners Will Support?
23 mins; December 19, 2022
Jay Goltz’s 12-Step Business Check-Up
47 mins; December 13, 2022
Dashboard: The Problem with Charging by the Hour
20 mins; December 12, 2022
I Want to Double Sales Again Next Year
50 mins; December 06, 2022
Dashboard: Okay, Boomer, What's Your Succession Plan?
24 mins; December 05, 2022
Should We Tell the Employees?
45 mins; November 29, 2022
Are You a Good Negotiator?
48 mins; November 22, 2022
Dashboard: Zip It And Do Your Job!
23 mins; November 21, 2022
For Richer, For Poorer
45 mins; November 15, 2022
Dashboard: How Gene Marks Stopped Sweating Health Insurance
20 mins; November 14, 2022
There’s Big Money All Over the Place
47 mins; November 08, 2022
Dashboard: Don’t Leave It to Your CPA
21 mins; November 07, 2022
Should You Be in a Business Group?
47 mins; November 01, 2022
Dashboard: Would You Hire Them Again?
18 mins; October 31, 2022
A Founder’s Year: Successful Raise, Fast Growth, and Mental Health Issues
40 mins; October 25, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Has One Piece of Tech Advice
22 mins; October 24, 2022
Rule No. 1: We Will Not Have Civil Wars
49 mins; October 18, 2022
Dashboard: Victor Hwang on Entrepreneurship in America
31 mins; October 17, 2022
Dana Opens in Dallas
50 mins; October 11, 2022
Dashboard: Welcome to Health Insurance Season!
28 mins; October 10, 2022
Bonus Episode: Seth Goldman Brews Another Ice Tea
35 mins; October 07, 2022
Are You Hitting Your Numbers?
41 mins; October 04, 2022
Dashboard: I Like Recessions
18 mins; October 03, 2022
Raising Capital: 'It’s a Ticking Time Bomb'
40 mins; September 27, 2022
Dashboard: The (Commercial) Rent Is Too Damn High
23 mins; September 26, 2022
Should HR Advocate for the Business or the Employee?
43 mins; September 20, 2022
Dashboard: Could California’s Fast Food Regulations Actually Work?
23 mins; September 19, 2022
Bonus Episode: Jason Fried Didn’t Mean to Blow Up Basecamp. But He’d Do It Again
45 mins; September 16, 2022
Quiet Quitting: Another Gift Brought to You by Corporate America
47 mins; September 13, 2022
Dashboard: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?
23 mins; September 12, 2022
We Have a Meeting With Costco!
45 mins; September 06, 2022
Replay: You Take a Stand
50 mins; August 30, 2022
Here’s My New Succession Plan: I Can’t Die
49 mins; August 23, 2022
Dashboard: The Tax Break No One’s Talking About
22 mins; August 22, 2022
Surviving Bad Clients and Bad Partners
48 mins; August 16, 2022
Dashboard: What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Businesses
22 mins; August 15, 2022
Trash, Rats, and Garbage Juice: A Case Study in PR
48 mins; August 09, 2022
Dashboard: Why Gene Marks Hates Employees, Part 492
28 mins; August 08, 2022
“I Think I’m Screwed”
43 mins; August 02, 2022
Dashboard: Welcome to the Pre-Recession!
20 mins; August 01, 2022
Are There Enough Hours in Your Day?
47 mins; July 26, 2022
Dashboard: "I Killed"
24 mins; July 25, 2022
Employees Still Have the Leverage
44 mins; July 19, 2022
Dashboard: Something Is Going to Happen
25 mins; July 18, 2022
How Would You Spend $10,000 a Month on Marketing?
43 mins; July 12, 2022
Dashboard: Email or Text?
25 mins; July 11, 2022
Bonus Episode: Kurt Wilkin Hates Business Books. So He Wrote One
40 mins; July 05, 2022
Wunderkeks Has Two Daddies
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Dashboard: Keep Calm and Carry a Lot of Inventory!
20 mins; June 27, 2022
Do Core Values Matter?
50 mins; June 21, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Would Rather Not Employ Gen Z
24 mins; June 20, 2022
I Think You Need to Hire a PR Firm
49 mins; June 14, 2022
Dashboard: Inflation, Recession, the Metaverse. Oh, My!
23 mins; June 13, 2022
Bonus Episode: I Didn’t Appreciate It Until I Almost Lost It
42 mins; June 10, 2022
Fire Your Franchise Consultant
39 mins; June 07, 2022
Dashboard: A Gusher of Money
26 mins; June 06, 2022
What Would Deming Say?
54 mins; May 30, 2022
The Early Warning Signs
49 mins; May 24, 2022
Dashboard: It’s Still About Hiring
16 mins; May 23, 2022
Have You Looked at Your Employee Handbook Lately?
44 mins; May 17, 2022
Dashboard: The Marketing Crapshoot
24 mins; May 16, 2022
Does Firing People Ever Get Easier?
44 mins; May 10, 2022
Dashboard: Gene Marks Went Remote Years Ago. He Hates It
18 mins; May 09, 2022
My Deal Has Come Apart
51 mins; May 03, 2022
The Anchor Price
56 mins; April 26, 2022
Bonus Episode: The Marketing Magic of Answering Customer Questions
42 mins; April 19, 2022
Do You Really Want That Shiny Object?
41 mins; April 12, 2022
Do You Take Money off the Table?
48 mins; April 05, 2022
What If I Get the Contract?
40 mins; March 29, 2022
Why I Sold 21 Hats
43 mins; March 22, 2022
We Are Survivors
47 mins; March 15, 2022
We Tried That Brand Thing. It Didn't Work.
49 mins; March 08, 2022
Somebody’s Hiring All of These People
43 mins; March 01, 2022
We Don’t Have a Brand
65 hours 20 mins; February 22, 2022
Why Not Become the Strategic Buyer?
44 mins; February 15, 2022