What Are You Doing for the Holidays?
Congratulations! You’ve made it through the unique challenges 2009 had to offer small business owners, and now it’s time to celebrate. With this in mind, here are a few tips to have a G-R-E-A-T holiday: G: Give Back To The Community. Volunteer to help a local charity. Donate your used clothing and other items to […]
Continue reading...Are You Doing This One, Key Thing to Bring in Sales?
In the process of promoting your products and services to potential customers, are you also promoting yourself? Competition is fierce today, and people want more for their money. This means that they are not just looking at products and services ““ but the people behind the businesses as well. With this in mind, what kind […]
Continue reading...Interview with Successful Photographer and Entrepreneur Ralph Velasco
Recently, I received a message from one of the members of the “Rembrandt Writes Insights ®“ Newsletter. As a successful business owner and avid traveler, Ralph Velasco has some great tips to share with other entrepreneurs. Here’s what Ralph had to say: Tell us about your business and why you chose to go into it? […]
Continue reading...Are You Using This Skill To Build Your Customer Base?
If you want to increase your level of returning customers, there is one major thing that you need to take care of at the very beginning of every relationship – Expectations. This may sound simple, but if you don’t spell out what you are going to provide for the money, you can run into major […]
Continue reading...Focus Your SEO and PR Efforts for Ultimate Success
I just got off the phone with a potential new client. She wasn’t sure how to build buzz for her organization. And after months of jumping around with SEO, media pitching, press releases, and other activities, she needed my help. Nothing was working. Do you know why? She wasn’t focusing on a specific goal. How […]
Continue reading...Do you Hate to Wait?
A few weeks ago, I got up at 2:30 a.m. to catch an early flight out of LAX. I made the flight, but I was then stuck on the plane for two hours due to mechanical problems. Fortunately, I was able to change my connecting flight while sitting on the plane. Then, the situation was […]
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