Category: Consulting with Small Businesses

  • Need a Middle Tennessee Press Release Company to Help You?

    Need a Middle Tennessee Press Release Company to Help You?

    We love Press Releases.We’ve been helping authors, inventors, and small businesses across Middle Tennessee (and everywhere really) produce Press Releases. And it seems like we do them for different reasons for everyone. Here are some reasons:Sometimes they are just to get incoming links from all around the web connecting to your big page. For new businesses,…

  • Why Local Businesses Need to Focus on their Mt. Juliet Google Business Listing

    Why Local Businesses Need to Focus on their Mt. Juliet Google Business Listing

    If you own a business in Mt. Juliet or anywhere in Wilson County, your most important storefront isn’t your building, it’s your Google Business profile. We live there. There are so many businesses and people now. And everyone is using Google, or Siri, or Alexa to find what they need. When local customers search for “coffee shop…

  • Why Attend Blogging Concentrated?

    Someday we’ll all be old. And we’ll be smiling about the good old days. For pretty much all of us, blogging started as a hobby. But along the way we figured out that the hobby could very well provide an income. And while it was hard, it was also the most rewarding activity of our…

  • Hot Seat Teleseminar: Assessing a Soap Store Owner’s Marketing

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  • Can small businesses use Foursquare?

    I’ve been dabbling with the new “social media” app called Foursquare. It seemed, from the very beginning to be a great app to help small businesses reach new customers. So I decided I’d not only try it out, I’d jump in and do everything you could do with it so I could really see how…

  • Is your Small Business ready for the flat screen TV change?

    Somehow, overnight it seems, flat screen TV’s are no longer available as an upgrade. Nope. Now flat screen is the default. In fact, if you want to buy a regular cathode ray tube TV, you’re going to have to go to an electronics store, or eBay or Craigslist. Because, Wal*Mart isn’t going to special order…

  • What Can Dog the Bounty Hunter Teach Local Businesses?

    Ever seen Dog the Bounty Hunter? He’s a Harley-looking dude in Hawaii who goes around rounding up the bad guys. But he doesn’t just round them up, he takes them down with style. Duane “Dog” Chapman and his family have turned their little bounty hunter enterprise into a full blown reality TV sensation. Since 2005…

  • The Structure of Social Media for Small Business

    Structuring your social media platform as a business gives you an opportunity not available to a consultant or sole proprietorship. While I spend a good deal of the time branding my own image, a company has the option of allowing it’s “employee faces” to brand themselves as employees or to make the “employee faces” anonymous…

  • Does your company website make sense?

    So you’ve got a website and you’re proud of it. In fact, many of you were probably excited to tell people once it was up and going.  I’ve got some questions for you. What is it for? What does it do? How do people find it? How do people use it? Do you know the…

  • Entertainment New Media Conference

    Entertainment New Media Conference

    We had a chance to take some of the messaging from Blogging Concentrated to the Entertainment New Media Conference in Anaheim this week. These are just four take away tips gleaned from my experience in sunny Southern California. 1. Explore out of your own niche. My site, Finding Joy, is typically a place where I…