Photo by Daexus I haven’t been able to play golf in a while (kids and a relatively new business tends to squeeze out your free time).  But I’ve played enough to recognize the one secret that all of the pros have that allows them to be great.  Without this trait, all the talent, brilliance, training […]

  photo by Spacepotato There are  a lot of things you can learn about advertising and marketing – there are hundreds of books, online courses, blog posts and ideas floating out there. Some of them even make sense and don’t contradict each other…! But there are a few things that seem to be fairly common […]

I just got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago – we stayed in Grand Lake, Colorado, which is on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park.  We had a great time, I got some fantastic pictures and I left thinking about Taxidermy (more on that in a minute). It’s a beautiful area, […]

Do you ever feel like your business or service is lined up with all of your competition and all of you look the same?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could stand out from the crowd?  You could go with an original business idea to stand out, however I’m convinced that there are very few […]

photo by BGLewandowski  A friend of mine – we’ll call him Dave to protect the innocent, recently met with a local Online Marketing company to learn more about how to get started with online marketing – specifically email marketing (sending online newsletters to contacts that you know). It turned out to be a scary encounter… […]

Photo by looking4poetry  Good public relations for a small business can be a huge lift in terms of visibility and having prospects find you.  Getting your business (or yourself) profiled in an article, on the radio or on TV is usually going to do nothing but good things for your bottom line. Unfortunately, although there […]