“Intentionally small. Always profitable. 17+ years proving the 'scale or die' crowd wrong—and teaching others how.”
My leap-day twin brother Alan and I have run The Sky Floor for over 17 years. We generate over $500K annually, maintain 7-14% year-over-year growth, and have never hired a single employee.
That's not a flex—it's a philosophy.
While the business world preaches "scale or die," we chose a different path: intentionally lean, relentlessly profitable, and selective about who we work with.
Now I help other businesses—both product and service—do the same. We've worked with engineering firms, churches, education companies, industrial suppliers, and more. The industries vary, but the problem is the same: too many businesses compete on price when they should be selling the transformation their customers actually pay for.
The shift I help people make: stop selling what you do and start selling what your customers get out of it. That's value-based positioning—and it changes everything about how you price, market, and attract better-fit clients.
Your audience will get real stories from 15 years of client work across industries, not recycled LinkedIn advice. I challenge conventional wisdom—like why "fail early, fail often" is terrible advice and why cutting your marketing budget in a downturn is exactly backward.
Business in the front, party in the back.
Joel is co-founder/owner of The Sky Floor, LLC, founded in 2009 with his identical twin brother. The Sky Floor has grown in revenue in each year of business, averaging 30% growth.
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