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5 Ways an Advisory Board can help your business

Photo by sea turtle  Good advice can be hard to come by sometimes, especially when you’re a busy business owner. That’s why the concept of an Advisory Board works so well, especially if you are in a business that tends to isolate you from working with peers.  Unfortunately most people aren’t really familiar with the […]

Are you getting the word out?

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 […]

10 Ways to Get More Done…

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 […]

Kansas City Zoo has a great Marketing Opportunity

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 […]

The 1 thing you want customers and prospects saying

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 […]

What to be when you grow up?

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 […]