CRM or customer relationship management is a very popular buzz word that has been being thrown around a lot in the business and marketing circles. Unfortunately, most people don’t address small scale customer relationship management, and how valuable it can be to a local business. CRM is basically just keeping in touch with your customers in order to build a strong relationship with them so that they hire you to do their parties and recommend you to their friends and families.

During tough times, concentrating your marketing effort is crucial. For many small business owners, a marketing budget is one of the first expenses that get cut. And the owner’s time is spent trying to find people ready to buy their product now. If you have followed the marketing advice from this blog, then you are [...]

Last week I had encouraged our readers to submit screenshots of their websites that they had done some small thing to improve them either by adding a call to action, contact information, or their logos. One of our best customers. In my opinion, our model public events business customer, submitted his site www.toppersandtats.com and the [...]

Since 2006, Mint.com has been helping people to manage their money better. Mint is a free online resource that tracks your spending in order to build a budget and determine where your money is going. It lets you follow your investments and even helps you do your taxes through its partnership with TaxACT. Mint’s priority [...]

Here we are again, back at the mall. We have come a long way; we have negotiated a great deal from the mall for our kiosk, on a month to month basis. We are all set up and have now hired and trained a few employees. We have had all of our employees sign our [...]

Recently, TAT changed their phone service to a faster Internet company. With that came changes of our IP address. So what is that? When you type in a name into the address bar of your browser, such as http://www.tatstore.com, your computer connects with what is called a registrar, an Internet address book, that tells your [...]

Sadly, I have no pictures or links to share with you this week from your websites. Maybe I’ll come up with something else to cover where I can review your internet offerings. But this week I thought I’d do I bit of a “duh” piece. On thing that is good to be reminded of is [...]