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Episode #111 – Focus on the Basics for Small Business Success Now and in Ten Years

June 23, 2017 • audio blog • Business owner motivation • core business strength • marketing • Planning • small business advice • small business tip • Success tips • Two Minute Commute

It’s hard to get out of your own way. But it’s nearly impossible to look to your future without taking the baggage of your past with you. This is why we rarely notice a technological improvement because the improvement really is just a modification of what we’ve been using… that is until it’s a great […]

Episode #110 – Doggy Paddle to Marketing is THE Profit Center.

June 22, 2017 • audio blog • Business owner motivation • communicate with customers • Customers • database management • marketing • marketing is the profit center • small business advice • small business tips • trial and error • Two Minute Commute

Can you learn to swim by reading it in a book? Haha! NO way. Eventually you need to get wet and if you start by jumping in the deep end, well that’s a bad idea. We’re not dogs. Dogs typically can “just swim” you don’t need to help them float by holding them under their […]

Episode #109 – Practice Your Social Media Marketing and the Difficult Will Become Easy!

June 21, 2017 • audio blog • Business owner motivation • keep going • marketing • Practice • Practice to make difficult easy • small business marketing • small business tips • Social marketing • Social Media Marketing • Success tips • Two Minute Commute

What is really easy for you? I look at something so obvious as typing that question and think of how difficult it once was to type. I type fast. But that didn’t “just happen”. I took a typing class in high school and practiced. However, until I looked back at all of the years of […]

Episode #108 – GTFON – Thank You Gen Z

June 20, 2017 • audio blog • Business owner motivation • customer confronation management skills • Customers • first job • gtfon • helicopter parents • marketing • small business advice • small business tips • Success tips • Two Minute Commute

I think I’m going to make today’s inspiration into a button and wear it at work. Because it has inspired me in two different thoughts but both occurred this weekend at our marina. The first example is in how people leave jobs. Unfortunately in today’s society the concept of “two week’s notice” is nearly non-existent. […]

Episode #107 – Dream Big! Wait, Don’t. Plan BIG Instead.

June 19, 2017 • 107 • audio blog • Business owner motivation • dream big • dreams are goals without plans • goals • have a plan • marketing • Planning • small business advice • small business tip • Success tips • Two Minute Commute

I’m not a big believer in dreams. People that sit around and dream have a lot of time on their hands. Now a couple of you might think… “that’s kinda sad. We all need dreams.” NO. We all need plans. If you want to lollygag in the wishful thinking of life, fine. But this inspiration […]