Jeff Beaumont

Increasing The Efficiency of Your Not-for-profit

This blog post is a bit different than my typical SaaS, Leadership, and technology topics. I’ll continue writing on those topics but I have a heart for non-profits and the work they do. If you’re working with a non-profit and I’d be honored to…

Disappearing Jobs

I was at a kid’s birthday party a few months ago and was reading this Tweet (note: it’s a better idea to spend time with other…

Margin

Event to event. Hectic. Fast-paced. Schedule conflicts. Pack it all in. Tired. Running on empty.

Resting. Slowing down. Contemplation.

Margin.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to have margin in my life for the last few months…

Road trips, conversations, and unintended delights

I’ve taken some road trips recently. With and without my family. It’s given me a lot of time to think. 25+ hours for this last time, for example. It’s brought me closer to my wife and granted us conversations we’d never have had otherwise. As…

Themes of Life

Do you listen to the themes playing around you?

I didn’t.

I’ve had an eventful few months in my personal and professional life recently. A repeating theme has been having the right priorities in place. It’s easy to have the right priorities written…

Learning From Weakness

You don’t learn life lessons from the happiest place on earth, you learn them through the tribulations and pains we all go through.

Today, we drove through Sacramento heading to Fresno (yes, it’s hot) and it’s been about a year since we last did traveled to…

Build Versus Buy

A lot of people think, “oh, I can just build that. I don’t need to pay someone else an ongoing fee.”

But that’s the wrong thinking for two reasons. It’s not like I need a dining table to put food on and I can either build it or buy it. That’s a one time purchase. SaaS is…