Over the last couple of years, I’ve had a side hustle of refinishing furniture and making large signs out of old fence slats. I’ve even converted an old piano into a wine bar. Things got more serious about a year and a half ago when I started working part-time for 4...
Should, should, should. We need to quit shoulding on ourselves. Small business owners face an overwhelming number of things they should be doing. Rather than heap guilt on you about the million things you aren’t doing, let’s pick a couple of things that will move you...
Customer reviews are the lifeblood of many local businesses, no matter what industry you’re in. This can be especially important for local service professionals. Most businesses don’t know how to ask for reviews. This article will give you simple step-by-step...
I recently redesigned the website for Hands of the Carpenter. They are a nonprofit in the Denver area that seeks to help single moms and widows with reliable transportation in their move toward self-sufficiency. They do this through vehicle placement, repairs,...
Nick was checking his phone as we waited for a presentation to begin. On his phone’s background was a picture of a dog. I asked Nick about it. It was his dog that had recently passed away. He said he was the best dog ever. Nick’s dog had some border collie in him and...
Doing a Before/After picture with your own design is a bit awkward. You can’t bash the previous designer because you were the previous designer. But that was over five years ago. The new site is a vast improvement in design and function. It has a richer, more...
This afternoon I looked through a stack of business cards. I collected them over the last several months and have great intentions of inputting them into my database. So many of them were so generic that it would never inspire me to call the person who gave them to...
Last week I got an email from someone who needed a site. Someone offered $500 to build them a site. That sounds like a good deal, doesn’t it? When I see a price like this I surmise the offer was by TGMBK (This Guy My Brother Knows) or a PFK (Pimply-Faced Kid). A...
I’ve talked to several people lately who have a need for Internet marketing and appreciated chatting with someone who has experience with this. The problem? They don’t have a budget to spend $2,000 or $4,000 per month, and they are willing to do the work...
On the TV show Restaurant: Impossible, host Robert Irvine fixes failing restaurants in two days on a $10,000 budget. He helps improve cash management, décor, and ownership issues. One thing he consistently does each episode is reduce the size of their menu. When there...
