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Tom Stimson advises owners of small to medium businesses on how to dramatically improve results, achieve growth and profit, and love their business again.
Intentional Success® is just a phone call away. As an owner or principal, you sometimes need advice or support outside of day-to-day business strategies. You require discretion, but you value insight. You need validation, but are open to new ideas. Tom Stimson has helped leaders like you with delicate tasks such as defining exit strategies, creating better management teams, addressing complex stra
05/28/2026
These words reflect a mindset rooted in the rental era, and they shape how clients perceive your business.
If you want to stop looking and acting like a rental company, start by changing the language.
https://www.trstimson.com/10-words-costing-you-money/
05/27/2026
Thriving companies say no so effortlessly you don’t even notice it. They start every opportunity as a no and find reasons to make it a yes.
Listen to this episode and learn the strategic filter that separates thriving companies from tactical ones. 🎯🚀
Thriving Is Much Harder Than You Imagine Podcast Episode · Intentional Success with Tom Stimson · May 20 · 18m
Do you have appropriate revenue? Have you defined the quality of the deliverable? Is the scope of work crystal clear?
Keep those three things managed, and you can take on bigger projects without sacrificing what makes you successful. 📊✅
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thriving-is-much-harder-than-you-imagine/id1682327050?i=1000768707943
05/25/2026
The words you use shape how clients see your business. Are you still talking like a rental company?
Learn more:
10 Words Costing You Money Rethink the rental-era language that is quietly holding your AV company back and adopt words that reflect the service business you actually run.
Stop wasting three hours talking yourself down from panic about how busy you’ll be.
Plan on being busy. Have the resources there. Button up the jobs you have and look as far into the future as you can. 📊🎯
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planning-meeting/id1682327050?i=1000767546985
05/21/2026
Bringing in new customers doesn’t fix the problem if you’re still carrying the ones dragging your margins down.
Real growth means replacing bad revenue, not just adding more on top of it.
https://www.trstimson.com/stop-retaining-bad-customers/
05/20/2026
Your weekly production meeting is three hours of redundant updates and circular conversations. Replace it with a planning meeting that covers staffing, gear flow, and logistics.
Listen to this episode and fix the meeting that’s eating your week. 📋⏱️
The Weekly Planning Meeting Podcast Episode · Intentional Success with Tom Stimson · May 13 · 16m
Need extra warehouse crew? Go book them. Need a sub-rental? Go make the call.
This meeting distributes information, not solutions. Take action at your desk. Put it in the system before next week. 📋✅
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planning-meeting/id1682327050?i=1000767546985
05/18/2026
Not all customer retention is good retention. If you’re holding onto bad revenue, you’re not growing, you’re subsidizing an illusion.
Stop Retaining Bad Customers Retaining every customer feels like progress, but blending bad revenue with good business never fixes the cracks forming in your margins or your team.
Most proposals don’t win because you didn’t ask the right questions and didn’t use the right process.
Questions asked and answered reduce the exclusions in your proposal. Skip the questions, and your proposal is full of no’s nobody wants to read.
Want better proposals? Ask better questions. 📝🎯
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-high-priority-questions-to-ask-before-ever/id1682327050?i=1000766406680
05/14/2026
Great hires don’t just fill a seat — they reshape how your team operates. Here’s what to look for in the first two weeks.
https://www.trstimson.com/why-nobody-wants-to-work-for-you/
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