Christmas – Small Business Smart Marketing

Brace Yourselves, the Holidays are Coming

10/13/201508/14/2016Blog, Email Marketing, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social Mediabusiness, Christmas, contacts, customers, Email marketing, holidays, Sales, schedule, Shopping, Small business, Social Media, strategies, Tools

Fall and Winter Seasons bring Labor Day, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and more… so what? It’s not too soon to talk about the holidays and we’re talking about the power of Holidays as Read More

Every Santa Needs a Break! Put a Bench in Your Store

12/04/201411/24/2015marketing, retail, small business, Social Mediablog, business, Christmas, customer loyalty, customer service, Education and Training, Email marketing, entrepreneur, Facebook, Family, followers, Furniture, store fixtures

The weary, bag laden, and soon impatient non-shopper leaves to shop elsewhere or coaxes the rest of the groups to leave. It’s a lose-lose for you and your shoppers. So, why encourage the non-shopper to become grumpy and negatively influence your happy shoppers?

14 Signs You Might be a Small Business Owner

07/06/201412/07/2017Blog, humor, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social MediaAmerica, boomers, Brand, Christmas, family birthday, Internet Marketing, Jeff foxworthy, Small business, Social Media, Superbowl Sunday, World Cup

You might be a small business owner if*: you’re on a first name basis with the drive-thru coffee shop baristas. your inbox has 100+ unopened emails, and over 10,000 undeleted. out-of-town vacations include a trade show Read More

It’s the Holidays, Take a Break! 15 Signs You May Be Addicted to Technology

12/24/201212/01/2015Blog, humor, non-profit, small business, Social MediaBlack Friday, blogging, Christmas, Communications, connection, Facebook, gaming, Holiday, IPhone, Social Media, technology, Telephone, Thanksgiving, transportation, YouTube

Our generation doesn’t ring the doorbell, they text or call to say they’re outside.

As much as we are seeing Black Friday bleed into Thanksgiving Thursdays, Christmas is still, thankfully, a day when MOST businesses are closed… Maybe WE need to “close,” too. Are you guilty? Ok, admit it… do you have any (or all) of these signs of technology addiction?

How Birthday Cakes are a necessity for morale in this economy

06/14/2011leadership, managementbirthday, Birthday cake, Cheesecake Factory, Chief executive officer, Christmas, Economics, Education and Training, Facebook, Layoff, management, morale, People, recognition, retail, success, Working class, YouTube

Surprisingly and sadly, many employers have declared the economy has forced brutal budget cuts that won’t allow them to continue office celebrations and so they have…

8 Tips To Minimize Employee Shrinkage – 10x Higher Theft vs Shoplifters

12/23/2010leadership, managementbusiness, Christmas, Crime, FedEx, Identity theft, Kleptomania, retail, Retail loss prevention, Security, Shoplifting, Shrinkage (accounting), Theft

Employee Shrinkage – 10X greater loss than shoplifting. Theft opportunities knock if you are leaving the door open. Read how to dramatically cut employee shrinkage down.