Tuesday, November 03, 2026
The Entourage or Simple-Growth: who each suits, what The Entourage publishes on price and proof, and seven questions to ask before you apply. Checked 4 November 2026.
The invoice was due on the 1st. It's the 14th. You've checked your banking app four times before 9am, doing the mental gymnastics of which supplier can wait another week and which one can't. On the spreadsheet, the numbers work out fine eventually. At 2am, they don't feel fine at all.
This is a story about an owner carrying a cash-flow gap entirely alone — not because nobody would understand, but because nobody else actually can.
In Bluevine's 2026 Business Owner Success Report, surveying 781 US small business owners, 41% named the gap between money coming in and bills going out as their single top stressor — ahead of taxes and payroll. The villain here isn't the invoice, and it isn't you. It's the idea that feeling this stressed about cash means you're bad at running a business. Most owners who feel exactly this are running a perfectly viable business with a timing problem nobody taught them to talk about out loud.
Kevin doesn't talk about his nine companies as a clean win streak. In his own training he's blunt about it: "sometimes you win, sometimes you learn," and some of those nine were very successful while others were outright failures. He says his job as a coach isn't just to help you grow — it's to help you avoid the mistakes he already paid for. That's the difference between a motivational speaker and someone who has actually sat with a banking app open at 2am wondering the same thing you are.
The fix for a cash-flow gap is rarely just a spreadsheet trick. It's having someone who has been in the number with you before, who can tell you which part of the fear is real and which part is just the loneliness of carrying it by yourself.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A real cash problem needs a plan. A lonely cash problem just needs a second person in the room who isn't panicking — and most owners have never had that second person, because they've never asked for one.
"Kevin has been a game changer for us. I had tried a couple of high-profile US entrepreneur programs but found these just talked about 'mindset', whereas Kevin gives practical advice to grow your business that you can implement immediately."
— Brett Abeille
Most owners don't call a coach the first time cash is tight — they wait until it's unbearable, because asking for help on something this personal feels like admitting failure. It isn't. It's the same move every one of Kevin's nine companies eventually needed from someone else.
By the time it's unbearable, the choices have usually narrowed to the hardest ones. Caught three months earlier, most cash-flow gaps are a conversation and a plan, not a crisis.
This isn't for you if you want someone to tell you it'll sort itself out. It's for owners ready to have one honest conversation about the number, with someone who's actually been in it.
You don't have to solve this alone at 2am. One honest conversation with someone who's actually carried this before could be the whole difference between a rough fortnight and a crisis.
If you're checking your banking app more than you're checking in with someone who actually understands the business, that's the first thing we fix.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Most SME owners are hitting their numbers, so why is confidence falling? The real reason isn't the economy. It's what's missing from next year's plan, and the three-question test that fixes it before you finalise a dollar of it.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Owners testing something new are far more likely to expect faster growth. Here is how to find the adjacent customer segment sitting right next to yours.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Thought a business coach was out of budget? For many eligible NZ businesses, the Regional Business Partner Network can cover a large share of the cost.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Some SME leaders are already getting a half-day a week back from AI. Here is the simple filter that decides what to automate, augment or leave alone.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
It was not the pitch that killed your last deal. It was the four weeks of silence after it. Here is the follow-up sequence most SME sales teams never build.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Most SME marketing stops the moment someone buys once. Here is the Value Ladder that gives your best customers an obvious next step, and why 74 percent never get one.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
A growth plan with no diagnosis is just a wish list with a date on it. Here is the three-part test that separates a real strategy from guesswork, before your next budget gets signed off.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Everyone in your industry follows the same playbook. Here is why fresh eyes beat it, plus a one-hour exercise to borrow a proven idea from another industry this week.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Five lessons from McDonald's own history that a 20-person US business can copy, plus where systems stop and growth questions begin.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Different industries hit different growth constraints. Find the Simple-Growth page written for your type of business, plus two free resources on loyalty and exit planning.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Nearly a third of small business owners have never taken a full week off, and new 2026 data shows the ones working the longest hours are also the most likely to want out. Here is the three-question test for turning hours into real freedom.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Over half of SMEs entering a new market in one UK study hit real problems doing it. The Ansoff Matrix maps the three safer growth routes most owners skip past first.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
45 percent of business owners in one survey feel trapped running the business they built. Here's how the Theory of Constraints, pointed at the owner instead of the process, finds the real fix.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
UK SME owners spend six working days a month on admin and 3.6 days on growth, one survey found. Dan Sullivan's Who Not How habit flips which question you ask first.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Nearly half of SMEs in a 2026 survey had not raised prices since 2022. Here's the three-sentence script that makes the overdue price conversation simple instead of stressful.