management

SMBs, Coach Your Staff Daily for Successful Marketing

06/09/201411/25/2015leadership, management, retail, small businessbusiness, Communications, customer service, Education and Training, Facebook, Google, maintenance problems, Small business, Social Media, staff division, staff issues, time management

Do you communicate daily with your staff? Ever notice how the more successful restaurants have daily meetings with staff before they . . .

Being an Entrepreneur Means Showing What You are Made Of

05/19/201411/25/2015Blog, leadership, management, small businessbusiness, commencement speech, Editor, entrepreneur, Jill Abramson, morale, New York Times, recognition, resilience, show what you are made of, Small business, small business owners, success, Wake Forest, Wake Forest University

Today, Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, gave the commencement speech at Wake Forest University. Quite appropriately, Wake Forest requested she speak on resilience. Her controversial firing from the NYT . . .

Shopping Small is Shopping Wise for Busy Entrepreneurs

Shopping Small is Shopping Wisely

04/21/201411/27/2015Blog, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social Mediablogging, boomers, business, Communications, connection, consumers, customer loyalty, customer service, Education and Training, Email marketing, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Facebook, Google, Google Places for Business, LinkedIn, maintenance, productivity, recognition, retail, reviews, salesperson, Shopping, Small business, Social Media, technology, text, time, time management, Yelp

Are you guilty of lost time picking through discount racks to NOT find what you need? It is a far more enjoyable shopping experience to “Shop Small.” Since Entrepreneurs are always short on time, small business Read More

A Social Media Learning Curve

02/11/201411/27/2015Blog, humor, management, marketing, small business, Social Mediablogging, business, connection, Consulting, Education and Training, entrepreneur, Facebook, George Takei, Marketing, productivity, Small business, Social Media, Social network, success, technology

Hubby: But, I AM SHARING. Me: No, you want to post an update. It’s different. Hubby: Facebook is B—S—! There’s nothing intuitive about it! Me: I never said there was…

IMHO :) 6 Characteristics of Small Business Owners

06/21/201312/01/2015Blog, humor, leadership, management, small business, Social Mediabusiness, Clueless, connection, corporate franchise, entrepreneur, family birthday, franchise department, happy friends, Magazines and E-zines, National Small Business Week, Networking and Peer Support, Percentage, productivity, Small business, small business owner, small business owners, time management, United States

People ask why I only work with Small Businesses in the U.S. Because American Small Business owners are Passionate and crazy about their business! Not that there is anything wrong with working for a corporation, Read More

SMBs: Penny Wise could be Pound Foolish in Marketing

Increase Your Small Business Budget for Better Marketing Results

05/29/201312/07/2017Blog, management, marketing, small business, Social Mediablogging, business, business necessities, Communications, Consulting, critical investment, Facebook, free element, grass roots, LinkedIn, Marketing, marketing communications group, productivity, retail, Sales, Server Message Block, Small business, Social Media, success, time management

A discussion question was posed on a LinkedIn Group: “Do you have any tips or ideas for marketers working on a tight budget? Please add your suggestions.” There were many great suggestions on how to market with the fewest dollars possible for the best results, As usual there were many suggestions, but no one was addressing the real issue – and that is that marketing should be recognized as a critical investment in …