One in five small businesses started will end up closing their doors in the first five years. As a small business owner turned consultant, I have witnessed this countless times, which is one of the reasons I am focusing on small business education. It’s not enough just to have a HUGE dream, HUGE vision, seemingly boundless passion and the willingness […]
Tag: marketing
Growth Happens
Last week on the blog, I wrote about the importance of marketing your business. If you’re like me, and not built for sales, this concept can be overwhelming at best and the last thing on your list a worst. We live in a very noisy world. With the advent of the internet, we are constantly bombarded by information. You used […]
If You Build It…
In the 80’s there was a movie where the main character is about to be bankrupt and his farm foreclosed upon. He starts having these visions of building a baseball field in the middle of his cornfields in Iowa accompanied by voices that whisper, “If you build it, they will come.” Of course, since this is a movie, at the end of […]