Is it time to look at change for your business?

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I’ve been watching this little guy for the past three years.  He lives in our woodpile and ventures out to sun himself on a warm day, to eat, but most often to  fill his pouch with seeds and acorns before scurrying off to add them to his winter stockpile.  This little rock squirrel is a [...]

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One of the Secrets of Business Success

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I received the following email the other day from a customer that I have been working with to send customized gifts each month to her college nephew. ” Joyce, You have a fabulous business concept.  Please let me know if I can help you in any way to spread the word out here on the [...]

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Your Marketing Calendar for 2012

Have you created the marketing habit? If not, you’re wasting valuable time! Habits are built as a result of repetition. The philosopher Aristotle said many hundreds of years ago that “we are what we repeatedly do.” And this applies as much to your marketing as it does to whether your customers buy their gifts from [...]

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Why people join communities.

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Just read an interesting post on another blog. You can read the whole post at PamMarketingNut but here is part of it: “People no longer are amazed by the latest commercial, billboard or radio segment. People aren’t running to their mail boxes excited for the next spam letter or coupon. They’re not looking on their iPhone [...]

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Are you still putting off that project?

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How long have you been working on that new project? Why haven’t you gotten it off the ground?  What are you waiting for? If you’re like many of us, you’re still trying to get it just right.  I know I’ve said myself, “I want to get this right the first time around!” But let me [...]

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A lesson from a Great Entrepreneur

Thanks to DrewsMarketingMinute.com for this great post. “What can the average Joe learn from Steve Jobs?” I can’t remember a world mourning the loss of a business leader like we’ve witnessed this past week after the announcement of Steve Job’s death.  The fact that FEEL the loss, that we GRIEVE this man’s passing and that [...]

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