Small Business Marketing

A recent blog post by Jay Hamilton-Roth of ManyGoodIdeas.com made me sit back and take a good look at my own business.  I realized that I have a passion for helping small businesses and entrepreneurs succeed through applying the knowledge and experience I’ve collected in 30+ years of marketing.

This video is about a small organic farmer from Northern California, Johann Smit of Hidden Star Farms but if you listen closely, there is a lot to learn (and maybe rediscover) about the passion each of us feels for our own small business.

Over the past couple of months we’ve received quite a number of questions concerning marketing for small business start ups. When you distill it to the fundamentals there are remarkably few considerations that when applied will get every small business off to a good start. If this is something you would like more information on click on the link above to go to our article. As always, your comments are appreciated. If you have questions regarding your small business marketing feel free to email them to us. If you feel they might be of general interest and don’t mind sharing them, post them as a comment.

When everything seemed to be going so well, suddenly we found ourselves in an economic quagmire. Small business has to be run with commonsense – it looks like the same isn’t true for Big Business and Wall Street. In fact, it appears that commonsense was completely abandoned, along with time-tested business principles, in favour of a house of cards.

Recently WIRED ran an interesting article on the roots of the economic mess. It makes interesting reading for every small businessperson trying to understand why we’re in the soup: “Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street“