If you buy something from me one time for $10, that represents $10 of value to me. And that is where most business owners stop. However, if you come in my shop 4 times a month and do so for a year, that is $480 you represent to me.
Once you look at it like this, [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about my frustration that I could not find a small business that would sell me breakfast and let me pay with my debit card. I want to riff on that for a moment, if you don’t mind.
If you run a business, you have the right to decide up front how you want [...]
I like breakfast. A Lot.
About twice a week, I will throw the latest book I am reading into the messenger bag and head off to a greasy spoon, Mom and Pop diner to get some scrambled eggs, sausage, grits and toast.
This morning was such a morning. However, because my regular place was closed due to [...]
Well, I have learned a lot over the past few years I have been blogging. For example, I have learned how to drive local customers to a store with a blog and how to market yourself and achieve your goals through blogging. Pretty much any success I am now enjoying professionally is a direct [...]
About 2 months ago, I tackled about 7 big projects all at once, the biggest being a move across the country to Raleigh, North Carolina. It has been an interesting ride…
I will be open and honest with you: I almost quite this blog. It may have seemed to so of you as if I HAD [...]
As you can tell from the sidebar, my most popular post ever is 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me. I cranked that one out in early summer of 2007, and honestly, I did not plan for it to be some great post; I just sort of threw it out there. It is six [...]
NOTE: This is article 2 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (part 1)
In a previous post, I mentioned six reasons you should have a strategy for using eBay to build your business. Today, I take the first three reasons and expand on them. After my next post, where I expand on [...]
It is no secret that I am a big fan of Wendy Piersall. Truth is, she just plain rocks.
Well, earlier today she announced the expansion of her emomsathome brand; she has expanded into a full blown media empire, with a total of 7 blogs and 9 authors all under the emomsathome umbrella.
From her announcement:
Ebay Selling [...]
NOTE: This is article 1 of 3.
6 Reasons Your Business Should Sell on eBay (Part 2)
Unless you have been in a cave for the last 10 years or so, you have probably bought or sold something on eBay. What started off as a hobbyist site to sell your odds and ends has become big business, [...]
Year after year, we hear that the number one reason businesses fail is they are under capitalized. That is much like saying all people die of heart failure. It is a technical, if very misleading, truth.
Yes, the reason they close is because they ran out of money, but they had other causes [...]