Success in small business marketing depends on a true understanding of the customer. This knowledge allows the small business marketer to capitalize on the advantage–less bureaucracy-the company holds over larger companies.
When it comes to buying a newspaper ad, you gotta know this:All submissions are FINAL.Change your mind about the something in the creative? Too bad. Live with the results.Yes, that’s still the norm. It doesn’t matter that digital has decimated the newspaper industry. The assembly line mechanics of print make real-time changes prohibitive.There is one … Read more
What follows is a snippet of an article I wrote for Bplans. It details exactly where I went wrong in my prep work for opening a business. My guess is anyone who’s explored striking out on their own will see themselves in this piece. It’s a lil’ embarrassing: When I first mentioned my plans to … Read more
Sometimes in business, “what got you here won’t get you there.” It’s a mantra many small business owners accept… at least on a superficial level. They realize that to grow, they probably have to change a few things (“scale up”). But, in their guts… they utterly reject the notion. I’ve seen this chaos firsthand in … Read more