[Cody Heitschmidt posted this on Twitter, and I had to ask him to let me use it as a guest post. Thanks, Cody!] Something just as simple as a Mariachi Band to roam around a restaurant will make your customers talk and remember. It’s not reinventing the wheel. It’s not rocket science, but in small…
Our friend Shashi Bellamkonda is back with another guest post of small business stories. In 1998 I worked behind a counter at a popular restaurant where take out was busy in the evenings. Now in those days the process was: Call the restaurant and ask for a menu to be faxed to you I would…
IRS Stakeholder Liaison presents: National Phone Forum Everyone’s at Risk – Combating the Increasing Threat of Online Fraud and Identity Theft Date: August 19, 2009Cost: FREELocation: The convenience of your home or officeThis IRS phone forum is for: • Tax professionals• Attorneys• Payroll professionals• Industry partners• Small business organizations• Small business owners• State and local…
I’d like your advice. A prospect stood me up this week. When he asked, I declined to offer him another free consultation. What would you have done? Does it matter how good of a prospect he was? This person was one member of a volunteer committee, just gathering data to take back to the group…
Some of you, and you know who you are, tend to put off one of the single most important business tasks: invoicing. You probably beat yourself up over it, too. But there is a simple reason you procrastinate on invoicing: it’s not fun. We like to work on the parts of our business that are…
Con Pekrul knows how to keep it simple. He owns the Plain View Winery, in Lahoma, Oklahoma. Let’s look around the back room. All the equipment is simple. Barrels and buckets, second hand tables, a used refrigerator. Here’s Con’s father Hart, filling bottles by hand. An automatic bottler would be too expensive, Con said. And…
Nate is a web designer. Allie is getting married. I’m helping an organization with their web presence. Trista arranges flowers. All these stories are linked. And all of them tell something about small business. 1. Nate Reussercame to tell me (and the staff of the organization) about passwords and their website. In the course of…
Lois Loucks, Director of the Tri-Cities Economic Development (Wheaton-Onaga-Havensville, KS), shared some of her innovative thoughts with me in an email about shopping local. “Shopping Local” as a two way street, with responsibility placed on the business owners to earn “their share of business”. Just because someone decides to be in business, does not automatically…
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