Another hard-earned lesson from one small biz owner to another. The 8th Commandment: LISTEN HARD. REMAIN RELEVANT. In my first year of business I pretended my way into a few Joomla Template customization projects. Hard
I’m going to take a break from the Small Biz Commandments this week, since nobody wants to read ten weeks worth of those in a row. Instead, today I offer you one rule I learned
These ain’t your granddad’s commandments, but we take ’em darn seriously. The 9th Commandment: LEAVE NO INTERACTION ON THE TABLE Think small town mentality. In smaller towns the idea of walking down the street and
We use these as a compass to make sure we are taking our clients (and our company) in the right direction. Inevitably we slip up and break a commandment and pay the price in sanity,
We’d like to congratulate Mark Lundsten of Fidalgo Films for the full funding of his short film on Kickstarter. Mark’s film, The Bath, is a movie about a family dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease. Mark and
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
Feast your brain on this excellent panel featuring Brian Clark, Doug Pray, and John Jacobsen. The panel includes: Brian Clark – Founder of Copyblogger Media, and Editor in Chief for Entreproducer.com. Brian is considered
Episode 2: Storytelling, Marketing & Modern Media RSVP for the live broadcast of the second edition of The MindFire Chats. Thu, Jan 31, 8:00 PM EST – 9:00 PM EST “marketing is a story” – Seth
Seems like a good deal, right? 1,000 Twitter Followers for $9.95 is indeed a bargain. Short answer – don’t do it. Buying followers is like buying an outdated mailing list. Small biz owners are in
So I dove into FollowFridayHelper about 20 minutes ago and was met with this: They have “FollowFridayHelper has been Shut Down for Good” – <sniffle><sniffle>. This was a dreadfully simple, and ridiculously effective bit of
Last night I “incorporated” Small Biz Triage with the Washington Office of the Secretary of State. Now we (meaning me and community management extraordinaire Seth Rasmussen) will be one of these effective January 1st, 2013:
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
