Category: Marketing Your Small Business

When my husband Wayne was informed by his cardiologist that he had to have open heart surgery – and soon – neither of us had any idea that our lives would be turned upside down by the series of events that followed. Thankfully we had…

This always amazes me. As the owner of a website design and marketing company for over 20 years now, it just blows me away how much care and attention to detail people are willing to invest in the most beautifully designed website (or vacation, or…

I hate to say this, but it makes me cringe when I visit someone’s website – especially someone I know – and their site is just – well – a mess. Lackluster, confusing, or one of those ugly “do-it-yourself in-one-night” sites. It’s awkward for me…

Sometimes when I mention to someone that I have been designing websites for over 15 years they say something like, “Oh, don’t look at my website!” or “I have a website but I hate it!” Pretty much  all businesses today need a website, but a poor website can…

As a service business we sometimes get a little slow around the holidays as everyone focuses on gifts and parties and in-laws. Now if you have a retail business the holiday season may be your busiest time of the year. So we have two very…

I’ll confess, I’ve made some pretty bad business mistakes in my 20 + years as an entrepreneur. The worst one was deciding to go back into corporate a few years back – that doozy almost ended my marriage – ugh! But over the years of coaching with small…

A lot of people we’ve been talking to lately have been feeling some kind of financial stress. Maybe unexpected expenses are eating up all the extra money that’s coming in, or the marketing actions you’re doing are just not working the way they used to. While…

We are frequently asked for tips on how to get started speaking at events, seminars and workshops. Often people tell us that while they are terrified to speak in front of people, they realize the importance of getting their message out to as many people…

Greetings and HAPPY NEW YEAR – it’s FINALLY 2014 – woohoooooo! We are so excited to be on the panel of 31 personal development experts and authors in Mark Bowness’ NEW YEARS REVOLUTION ebook and online community. It’s free! it’s cool! It’s a MOVEMENT!      Did you…

People out there had lost everything.  Roads were washed out.  Help couldn’t get through.  And Dawn Chitwood was sitting in her restaurant with a huge refrigerator full of food and no power. She thought about it for a while, took a huge breath, and made…