The small business just down the street from my house is suffering. A little family owned market, it depends on drive by traffic to survive. Problem is, the main road just got rerouted because of phenomenal growth in this area. Instantly, this small business owner saw a 90 percent drop off in business. [Read more...]
Don’t Try To Control Your Press Releases – It Will Backfire
All you have to do is read a few of my messages or talk with me for a short time to know that I am a proponent of using news releases as a marketing strategy for your small business. And you must bear one thing in mind — you do not control what gets printed in the news from your release. Your objective is to write such a great news release that publications will want to print it in it’s entirety. Here’s a short note I received from a small business owner and my response to her issue. [Read more...]
Got Cabin Fever In Your Home-Based Business? Get Out!
Have you ever wondered how other home-based small business owners deal with being stuck in the house all day long?
Remember, just because you have a home-based business doesn’t mean you have to stay home all the time.
Get out and get involved with at least one group in your community — perhaps a chamber, a community group, a civic group or industry group. These are also great places to meet people who may need what you have to sell.
On top of that, remember that there are still plenty of people in the world who don’t spend all their time on the internet or chained to a computer like a lot of us do. 
What do you think? Take a minute and leave me a comment about how you deal with home-based business cabin fever.
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