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 a bunch of hats, a lot of times you’re covering new ground and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

photo by mandj98  There are a lot of techniques and approaches  you can use to market and sell your products and services – some of them are complex and not very obvious and some of them are fairly straightforward. As an example, I ran across this blog post from Michael Fortin (well known copy writer) […]