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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

Never Put all Your Marketing Eggs in Just One Basket

10/23/2012Blog, marketing, non-profit, retail, small business, Social Mediablog, boomers, business, Content, current promotions, eggs in one basket, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Marketing, search engine rank, Small business, Social Media, stock decline, success, technology, time management, twitter, Web search engine, Website

All the recent social media changes and demands are making you a little more than nuts. You spend a lot of time learning how to stay up in edge rank, but they keep changing the rules. So what IS your foundation? What can you rely on for marketing your business? …

Social Media: the part that is “Free” is just a tool.

03/09/2012Blog, management, marketing, non-profit, retail, small business, Social Mediabad websites, business, Communications, Education and Training, entrepreneur, Facebook, free website template, LinkedIn, Marketing, media tools, pinterest, right tools, Small business, Social Media, Social network, success, technology, twitter, YouTube

How well are you using your social media tools? Tell me you don’t run across a lot of bad websites and social media pages on a daily basis…?

Retail A.D.D. – Are distractions costing you business?

09/24/2011Blog, Email Marketing, leadership, management, marketing, retail, sales, small business, Social Mediacustomer loyalty, customer service, Email marketing, entrepreneur, Facebook, management, retail, Sales, Small business, twitter

Maybe, … but most likely, if truth be told, it’s because you are losing the business you already have.
We can’t see the forest for the trees and we don’t recognize a…

5 Ways to Stop Paying Sales Staff to Stand Around!

06/23/2011Blog, leadership, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social Mediabusiness, customer loyalty, customer service, Education and Training, Insurance, management, morale, Office Depot, productivity, recognition, retail, Sales, Shopping, Small business, success, time management

It makes me NUTS when I walk into a store and see employees just standing around, arms folded, slouched posture, looking oh, so bored… WHEN THEY COULD BE…

Find the Customer’s Need, Then Find a Way to Fulfill it to Make the Sale.

06/08/2011Blog, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social MediaAutomobile salesperson, business, Buyer, Client (computing), Communications, connection, Consulting, Consumer Goods and Services, customer service, Education and Training, Emotion, Fad, Limited liability company, Marketing, Product (business), recognition, retail, Sales, Salesforce.com, Shopping, Simon Sinek, skinny jeans, Website

“DETERMINE THE WHY” AND YOU’LL ALWAYS MAKE THE SALE. You don’t have to fill that need with the product they asked for. You just have to fill the need.