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10 Ways to Get More Done…

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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Photo from Library of Congress collection 
Do you ever feel like there’s not enough time in the day to get everything done?
Sometimes you just feel flat out tired.
As a small business owner, you’ve got it worse than most.  You’re wearing […]

Kansas City Zoo has a great Marketing Opportunity

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

If you’re in the market to sell something (product or a service), you know you’ve got a huge competitive advantage when you can give your customers a unique experience.  Just this last weekend, the Kansas City Zoo offered up an opportunity to see and experience something totally different.
If you live in Kansas City, then you […]

The 1 thing you want customers and prospects saying

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Push versus Pull
Which one of these options sounds better to you?
Option 1:  You develop an extensive advertising and marketing campaign, complete with direct mail, ads in the local media and maybe even a radio campaign.
Your name, your message gets pushed out (hopefully primarily to your target market) and you get a response rate of 1 […]

What to be when you grow up?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I had a great conversation the other day with one of my BANG clients about the need to get some systems in place to help automate processes.  It’s a pretty common problem faced by a lot of small business owners, but before you can really make a call on what the right solution is, you […]

The art of infusion

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Photo by fabio_pinheiro 
This is a bit off the beaten path of a regular post, but it does illustrate the kinds of things you can learn as a business owner (and if you’re not learning something new all the time, you should be…).  Specifically I have learned how to infuse Pineapple (pictured above) into Vodka to […]

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