Loveland Advice Givers | Business Owners | Entrepreneurs | Interviewing Our Community's Brightest Minds | Ron Adams

Early in my management career I had a challenge. One of my employees had a very bad attitude. She criticized every decision I made with regards to growing our business. She went on to criticize decisions made by the company as well. Her criticisms were shared with co-workers, customers, and vendors alike. This one person...

Today’s live show was about Opt-in Marketing. Don’t be an interruptor. Instead, tell a story and give people a choice to opt-in.

Last year my wife surprised me with a trip to Europe for my birthday. Why would she do that you ask? Was it an important birthday? Okay, okay, it was a SIGNIFICANT birthday. Back to my story. “We’re going to London and Paris”, she said. As the day neared for the trip we got to...

My weekend was one of the busiest weekends I can remember. Thursday evening I showed houses and got home late. Simultaneously an offer came in on one of my listed properties. After successfully negotiating from the porch of one of the houses I was showing in Kentucky, I made my way back across the Ohio...

Writing everyday is very rewarding, however, it’s not without risk. Yesterday I wrote about how life requires movement, and when you begin to move crashes are inevitable. Recently I had a crash. I told a story about a client and they read the story. They took it as a negative towards them when that wasn’t...

Maybe it’s my creative nature or maybe I’m a just a dreamer, but my mind is constantly focused on the future. Most likely I don’t like to focus on the past because of all the stupid things I’ve done. The universe has a way of humbling us and so many times it happens in an...

June 20, 2018 was the last day I visited the gym. That day I broke two bones which have kept me from my daily workouts. Really it’s upset the rest of my routine as well. Still I can’t walk unassisted, but about a week ago I visited the doctor and they gave me an ankle...

Saturday night was quite the experience. For the Adams family, it would mark the official end of summer. The summer of 2018, a steamy, hot, frustrating summer. We bought the tickets in the spring knowing we had an active summer planned and this would be the final epic event. Theresa and I over the last...

I’m an amazingly sensitive person, but not in a good way. Last year I had a client who is an investor. They bought a house, fixed it up, and asked me to market it and sell it. The house had a ton of activity and it went under contract fairly quickly for nearly full asking...

Today’s topic: mistakes. We all make them but we need to own up to them and make them right.

A quick update episode after the long holiday weekend.

Nicknames, I’ve had a few. As a kid my buddy Ralph called me “the man with a thousand faces.” For some reason I made him laugh, a constant source for his amusement. During my early teens my buddy Ronnie and his family called me Adams. You see we hung out on the basketball court quite...

As a kid I played a lot of cards with my family. My mom, my aunt Karen, and my uncles were all kind enough to let a ten year old kid play with the grown ups. Our game of choice was spades. Card games are a great way to bring together family, to have fun,...

While writing at the coffee shop a few weeks ago, a friend of mine stopped by and told me about a real estate seminar he was attending the upcoming weekend. The seminar was held at a local hotel and the promise was to teach attendees the secrets of flipping houses. You know, buy a foreclosure...

On Friday I met a guy named Adrian at one of the houses I’m getting prepped for sale. A few years ago he started a business doing “clean outs”. In the real estate world a “clean out” is removing a house of unwanted furniture and personal property no longer needed. Normally this happens when someone...

Did you know that Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus closed down last May? After 146 years the Greatest Show on Earth is no longer in business. Good. I hate the circus. Also, I hate the zoo. I’m not kidding, I hate them both. I’m glad the circus is closed and I hope every zoo...

Jill Rolfes grew up right here in Loveland, Ohio. She remembers Loveland before the nice restaurants, walking and bike paths, and the typical summer evenings of live music and crowded parking lots. Downtown Loveland may not have been so “cool” before but that’s all changed now. In school she loved reading and history because it...

Brent Zuch, now the branch manager of Security National Mortgage, grew up in Loveland, OH. In school he developed a love of history and science. These subjects helped him develop his curiosity. He rarely accepts new information without asking “why” so that he really understands what is being presented.  As a kid Brent always knew...

Doychin Karshovski grew up in Bulgaria under a communist regime in the seaside town of Varna. This made his childhood a little different from what you might be used to in America. The government of Bulgaria told students what to learn and when Doychin was a student they focused on fitness. Fitness was everything and...

Mimika Cooney, a multi-passionate creative, TV Host, Christian author, inspirational speaker, serial entrepreneur, branding strategist, marketing maven, award winning photographer and aspiring filmmaker… grew up in a way that might seem familiar to you and I.  Before all her amazing accomplishments, Mimika, who grew up in South Africa, faced rejection, bullying, and a broken childhood....