All About The Benjamins

Pricing Strategies for Your Offering

How to Price Your Service Without Guessing In this episode, Coach Ryan breaks down practical strategies for pricing services without relying on guesswork. Drawing on real-world business principles and negotiation concepts like anchoring, he explains how to price based on value, understand your cost floor, and present pricing with confidence. This episode helps entrepreneurs move from uncertainty to clarity when it comes to charging for their work and building sustainable businesses.

The First Client Is The Hardest

In this episode, Coach Ryan breaks down the practical steps to landing your first customers when starting a business. Focusing on clarity, consistency, and leveraging existing relationships, he explains how early clients serve as both proof of concept and the foundation for future growth. This episode emphasizes that success doesn’t begin with scale, it begins with securing the first few opportunities and delivering real value.

Who's In Your Ecosystem? Off-Script

Who do you have around!? In this episode, Coach Ryan shares his thoughts about his day around a Power 4 football program, Virginia Tech. What started as a day he thought he would just be able to hang around all day, turned into a lesson relative to business and entrepreneurship. From Coach Franklin, to Adele (Not like the singer! Haha) and everyone in between, fantastic spirits. What Coach Ryan saw yesterday was an ECOSYSTEM that Coach Franklin built. While you are building your business, building your ECOSYSTEM is a major key. Even solopreneurs need a team...even if they are not on payroll....YET.

The $1K Business Blueprint

Three Businesses Under $1K in Startup Costs! In this episode, Coach Ryan explores three realistic business opportunities that can be started with limited capital. Drawing on common small business data and industry trends, he highlights service-based businesses like residential cleaning, property maintenance, and digital services that consistently show strong demand and low barriers to entry. He also addresses the common concern of market saturation, explaining why opportunity still exists for those who operate with discipline, consistency, and professionalism. Its not about how big you can grow in as little time as possible...its about entry points! Everyone has to start somewhere!

All About The Benjamins

Separating Business and Personal Entities! In this episode, Coach Ryan discusses one of the most important habits for entrepreneurs, keeping personal and business finances separate. Drawing from his own early experiences, he shares how a lack of financial discipline can quietly weaken a business over time. Once the business has weaknesses (leaks), on misstep can lead to "failure." Not in the sense that its over, but having to go back to ground zero is discouraging and causes people to give up on the winner they've built! Listeners will learn why businesses must operate as their own financial entity and why treating business income like personal spending can lead to instability. The episode closes with a preview of tomorrow’s conversation about businesses that can be started with less than $1,000 and the role discipline plays in turning small beginnings into long-term opportunities.