Business is Booming Interview with Brad Sugars

Today Roger interviews Brad Sugars, Founder and CEO of ActionCOACH, for his upcoming Business is Booming tour which will be in Boise Wednesday evening, April 28, 2010.  Tune in to hear why business is booming for Brad and the ActionCOACH team and their clients and make sure to attend this event to see how your business can be booming, too.  Register at:  http://www.businessisboomingtour.com and enter code...

Is Fear Controlling Your Business?

  Hawk’s Eye on Business Another business took a step closer to failing yesterday and the sad thing is that they didn’t move an inch.  That is the problem, though.  Too many business owners are allowing fear to control their actions and all too often that fear is to recede into a proverbial turtle shell and do nothing.  Now is not the time to develop atrophe for your business.  Now is the time...

Management of Time for Social Media Marketing

    Yesterday we  held a social media basics training course for 25 like minded business owners and senior sales staff here in Boise, Idaho at a restaurant called the Sockeye Grill.  The event was sponsored by Keybank and the training was conducted by Craig Jamieson of NetWorks Boise!  The Lunch and Learn format was a popular schedule for my local area and may work well in your area, too.  The number one...

How Do New Business Owners Market Their Services?

  Hawk’s Eye On Business     There are many new business owners hitting the market these days as a result of all the layoffs in corporate America.  Statistics show that 80% of these new businesses will be out of business within 5 years and of those that make it that far, 80% of them will fail in the next 5 years.  So only 4% of the new business owners will make it through the first 10...

Tactics are Great But What's the Marketing Plan?

  Hawk’s Eye On Business Last week I had a couple of seminars with two strategic alliances, Martha Sandifer of Martha Sandifer CPA, and Corey Smith of Tribute Media.  One of the outcomes from those seminars was that all too often, businesses employ marketing tactics without having a marketing plan.  For instance, social media is a great way to market your business but it is a tactic that needs to fit...