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Video: Prune your products and services

By Becky McCray

UPDATE: Read more on this idea at Chuck Huckaby’s Work At Home Business Opportunities.


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If you haven’t pruned lately, your line of products or services may be holding back your business. The four factors to consider when pruning and adding to your product lines to revitalize your business:

  • sales
  • seasonality
  • customer requests
  • keyword trends

This also applies to those entrepreneurs who run multiple small businesses to make a living.

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Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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May 12, 2007 Filed Under: marketing Tagged With: podcast, service businesses, SmallBizSurvival Podcast, video

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  1. Chuck Huckaby says

    May 14, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    Excellent suggestions Becky. I’ll be linking back to you later today on my blog. Thanks.

  2. Chris Punke says

    May 14, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Great thoughts Becky! I like the use of video… hope to see more like these in the future! :)

  3. Becky McCray says

    May 15, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Thank you very much, guys. I’m glad you are finding value in these experiments!

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