time to answer some of your business questions. we are talking about running multiple businesses today. so let s get our board of directors in here to help us out. eric casaburi and gene marks is here founder and president of the marks group and columnist for the washington post. thanks for being here. i m so glad we re focusing on this today. i feel like so many people are doing more than one thing. i know i do. i know you do. i know you do. here we go right? yeah. the first question an e-mail from maryland in the restaurant business at the jersey shore and writes my company is looking for, pax opportunities to staten island and south florida to balance our seasonality. how do i seek out a working partner with skin in the game in an area i am not familiar with? what do you think, gene? there s first of all you want to reach out to the contacts and people you know. when i think about people looking into different areas of the country where they want to work, she might want to
die this stuff because i have to fuel myself with more information. meet one or two more people and networking and continue to do if you say in business stay in business. eric, thank you so much for this advice and we ll bring you back for questions. awesome. still to come we ll answer your small business questions about expansion and growth including one about finding partners and locations you aren t familiar with. plus, social media strategies for promoting multiple businesses and how the owner of eight bars and restaurants in oklahoma keeps them from competing with each other. american express for travel and entertainment worldwide. just show them this - the american express card. don t leave home without it! and someday, i may even use it on the moon. it s a marvelous thing! oh! haha! so you can replace plane tickets, traveler s cheques, a lost card. really? that worked?
so good to see you, eric. hi jj. you run three business three separate businesses that are somewhat related. uh-huh. plus there s a few other that have real estate holding stuff. got it. you are multiple businesses so let s talk about this from the perspective of someone who s thinking about doing it. what questions do they need to answer for themselves? you talk about first work life mountain balance. if you don t do that ahead you ll end up talking about it or figuring it out. it s easier to do it prior. so you understand work/life balance then work/work balance mining how do i balance the other companies. getting resourceful. it s a chapter in my book entire chapter is about resourcefulness. if you re going to be able to make it in the world of business even if you re just a solo player let alone a multibusiness operator you need to be really resourceful and