The story
The long version.
In early 2023, the freight industry took a nosedive. I was working in sales at a freight brokerage, and within a couple of weeks I lost 75% of my book of business. Every sales rep on the team was in the same boat. A few months of trying to claw it back, and eventually they laid me off. I was not mad about it. Honestly, I was not happy in sales anymore, and I had already been thinking about what came next.
What came next had been in front of me the whole time. I've got a pretty big network of friends who own small businesses, and I'd noticed the same pattern across almost all of them. They're passionate about what they do. They're great at the actual work. But the admin side, the bookkeeping, the payables and receivables, the HR compliance, the filing, that's where things fall through the cracks. That's where good business owners end up behind on things they never meant to get behind on.
So I started Rossman Business Solutions. The idea was simple: if I took all of that off their plates, they could focus on the part of the business they were actually good at. Turned out to be a pretty useful idea. I have been running the firm ever since, and every client I have taken on has stuck with me.