A follow up to last week’s post, and roughly a third of Chapter One of our Small Business Survival Guide, SBT brings you the answer to the question posed last week: So why do people
This is an excerpt from Small Biz Triage’s work in progress, a Small Business Survival Guide (we’ll come up with a better title once the book is written). Specifically, this excerpt is from Chapter One:
With the new year, we have begun the process of writing our humbly audacious book. So much writing, so much editing to be done. We’ll be rolling out previews of chapters as they become suitable
A response to Anthony Iannarino. ROUTINE After reviewing my own ridiculous list of resolutions this year, I immediately became overwhelmed. Then I remembered what my client Kevin Archbold (Key Consulting) consistently preaches during our weekly calls
UPDATE 5/1/2014: How we’re doing so far? So we survived 2013. One thing Seth and I share in common is a deeply-seated aversion to repeating mistakes. Not that we didn’t repeat any mistakes this year, but
My name is Rich and I’m Nate Wright’s partner in crime in Small Biz Triage. I met Nate about 5 years ago while we were
Every man has his favorite charcoal, every woman has their favorite lip gloss, every kid their favorite toy, every cop their favorite hand-gun and every
Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just
CHALLENGE: Bronzer Salon was referred to us by one of our peers from a few years back. A mother and daughter started an airbrush tanning
CHALLENGE: ACT has recently begun re-selling the classroom ModelMaker, but did not have a web platform to showcase the product OR a place for ModelMaker
Commandment 2: Pursue the Human Connection There’s a lot of paranoia flying around currently. The news has covered it and moved on already, but everyone’s deepest insecurities love to be reminded that the government is
Commandment 3: DON’T RUSH The sales funnel confuses more of my clients than even the most complicated WordPress plugin. And I can’t blame them. When I started out, I clearly didn’t get it either. Most
What is MailChimp? Simply put, MailChimp is our favorite email newsletter platform. It has other uses, from announcements to invites, and anytime in between when you might need a slick looking email. If you are
Commandment 4: Practice Confident Exclusion Whether you’re a small marketing firm, or a fashion magazine, or whatever, your business exists to help people. Trying to be everything to everybody can make this difficult. It can
Commandment 5: Don’t Dilute As I search for examples for each of our commandments in action or being broken, I’m beginning to realize that many of these are complimentary. This commandment of “Don’t dilute” could
My name is Rich and I’m Nate Wright’s partner in crime in Small Biz Triage. I met Nate about 5 years ago while we were
Every man has his favorite charcoal, every woman has their favorite lip gloss, every kid their favorite toy, every cop their favorite hand-gun and every
Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just
CHALLENGE: Bronzer Salon was referred to us by one of our peers from a few years back. A mother and daughter started an airbrush tanning
CHALLENGE: ACT has recently begun re-selling the classroom ModelMaker, but did not have a web platform to showcase the product OR a place for ModelMaker
