I’ve learned an enormous amount about running a transportation company in the last decade — and now I want to share all of that knowledge with you so you can start your own bus company too. We built a very special set of tools to do this and we’re calling…
I’ve wanted to be a person who exercises in the morning for as long as I can remember. I have journal entries going back years saying how “today is the day I’ll start a new exercise routine that I’ll do every day forever!” You already know I wasn’t successful in…
It looks like we might be coming close to our final option on a really, really big building on the near west side of Detroit for the future The Detroit Bus Company / Arsenal of Clean HQ. The plan is to use a corner of the building for our own operations and lease out…
Last night on a whim I sketched this chart to show my current feelings on what works trying to market anything online effectively. Consider the percentages to roughly where you should be spending your time/money/creative energy. You’ll notice a giant chunk of the chart is something called “soulful bets.” To…
It’s too easy to build up mental roadblocks to writing for ourselves. We can easily write dozens of daily social posts to feed the beast, but the weight of writing for our own properties often hangs too heavy to start. We feel that there’s too much riding on durable stuff…
I’ve had a lot of people ask me how we’re doing as The Detroit Bus Company or how we plan to survive through this crisis. The truth is that going a month or more without any bookings or tour tickets sold will cripple or kill our business if we don’t…
Alright folks. So there’s big problems afoot with COVID-19 which means it’s idea time. Avoiding big events and washing your hands will slow things down but not prevent them. There are going to be a LOT of people (seniors, remote workers, immunocompromised people) who won’t be able to get the…
I wrote the following while eating breakfast at a friend’s diner and feeling frustrated about the state of affairs for small business owners here with Russell Street Deli closing forever this weekend: The recent ravenous real estate purchases in Eastern Market are only the beginning of a much larger wave…