Photo by Laffy4k  Note: this is the first in a series about supercharging your marketing message by leveraging some of the ideas in Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall.   This is an excellent book with some really practical strategies and ideas for enhancing your marketing message. I’m also doing a workshop on this […]

photo by tobiaseigen RSS, SEO, Flickr, XML, HTML, Digg, Reddit… It’s really easy to get caught up (or lost) in all of the technology floating around.  These days it’s rare that you’ll read an article about marketing or sales that doesn’t mention some aspect of technology – usually something related to Web 2.0. In fact […]

Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.  find it here Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R. […]

The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) has been been around for about 20 years and unfortunately there are a lot of people that haven’t heard about it.  From their website here’s a brief description of what KTEC is: The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation is a state-owned corporation established to promote advanced technology economic development in […]

By now, as a small business owner, you’ve likely seen all sorts of articles and posts on why it’s important to have a blog to promote your business. www.Entrepreneur.com has a great article (it’s a bit dated, but still worthwhile) Should You Start A Business Blog?  The answer is yes and their primary reason is […]

Photo by Flyfshrmn98  One of the key things that can make the networking process much easier is developing and getting extremely comfortable with your elevator pitch. An elevator pitch is a concise, focused and interesting description of who you are and what you do, imagine if you were riding on an elevator with your perfect […]