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Brady Lewis
President/Owner/C-Level

Brady Lewis is the founder of Allmoxy, a web based platform for woodworkers to manage their businesses and sell products online. While running the family cabinet outsource shop in 2008, he began creating a system to solve everyday problems the business would run into. The system became so valuable that Brady knew it should be available for other's to use, and Allmoxy was born. Running a successful cabinet company and starting Allmoxy has given him substantial knowledge and experience to share.

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Systems

What is "The cloud"?

In very simple terms, the cloud is the remote set of tools and data that live in the Internet. For example: the cloud version of movie rentals is Netflix, the cloud version of a checkbook is PayPal (Square, Stripe), and the cloud version of Walmart is Amazon.
By Brady Lewis, March 30, 2016 | 12:05 pm CDT
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Business Briefs

Compounding advantages in labor savings

Companies that are pulling away from the pack are using the technology to re-allocate labor, because nobody likes to fire employees. There are some things that machines and algorithms just can’t do, and humans should stick to those things!
By Brady Lewis, March 17, 2016 | 5:35 pm CDT
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Management

Two reasons reworks come back to haunt cabinet shops

Defective products are sent for two reasons:
 Employees don't know it is a bad product They felt some sort of pressure to move on without correcting the mistake 
It sounds simple, but it’s not. Let’s look into these further.
 
If the employee is truly unaware that a product is unacceptable, typically there are a few reasons why:
 
1.) They don’t know the standard.
By Brady Lewis, March 11, 2016 | 11:41 am CST
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Business Briefs

The simple secret that changed my company, forever

We've been taught that woodworking companies have their typical location, products, services, way of talking to the world, and so on. But you get paid more when you're an outlier; commoditization is what happens when everyone in an industry pretty much does/sells/has the same thing.
By Brady Lewis, March 9, 2016 | 5:05 pm CST
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Systems

Give me my money (6 steps)

When it comes to collecting our money we seem to be stuck between (but accustomed to) two worlds. Most of us understand the effective “new” way, yet seem oddly resigned to employing the "old" way in our own businesses. Let's examine the two.
By Brady Lewis, January 7, 2016 | 3:47 pm CST
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Continuous Improvement

Why people won’t wait for you

While the physical world still has some justification for a wait time, information is now required instantly. Consider the amount of patience you have spending 10 minutes to get a hair-cut, versus waiting even 1 minute for a page to load with a list of local barbers. We expect our things fast, and our information now!
By Brady Lewis, January 4, 2016 | 5:32 pm CST
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Continuous Improvement

Can You See Your Business?

What’s the ‘thing’ that really sets you and your employees into action? When “X” happens, we go to work… For an employee at the machine, it’s usually something like “When the cutlist is put on my clipboard, I cut it out”, which is pretty simple. What about you, though? How do you know what to do and when to do it? What is ‘it’ that makes you act?
By Brady Lewis and Tyson Chambers, November 17, 2015 | 11:20 am CST