Creating a Congenial Workplace

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I went into a retail business not to long ago and it became quickly apparent that the employees were having a dispute of some...

Acquiring Visitor Email Addresses

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Most businesses work hard on collecting email addresses, in order to stay in touch with their customers and potential customers. These days it seems...

Helping Employees Expand Their Horizons

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Managing and motivating employees can be hard work, though there are some ways to make it easier. Hiring the right people is, of course, the...

An Easy Way to Get More Wine Club Members

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I am teaching a short (eight week) class at the local Junior College entitled Consumer Direct Wine Sales & Marketing. As a homework assignment,...

Maximize Holiday Sales

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It’s September already, hard to believe but the year is almost over. How are your plans coming for Thanksgiving and the December holidays? Before...

Refine Your Short Pitch to Grab People’s Attention

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I found a great article by Jacqueline Whitmore in Business Dictionary.com about refining the short pitch. called 7 Essentials for an Elevator Pitch That...

Business Personality

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What is the personality of your business? When you think about your business, what personality traits would you ascribe (or have you ascribed) to...

Accomplish Your Goals Through Planning

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Creating a plan to reach your goals is the first step along the road to success in business and in your personal life. Well,...

Are You Researching Your Market?

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Market research is very important to success. After all if you don’t really know what your target audience is looking for it’s hard to...

Fonts and Shapes, Their Perception on Buyers

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In last week’s blog I wrote about how color affects the consumer’s perception of products, this week I am focusing the influence of fonts...

How Consumers React To Color

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I found an interesting article regarding what the color of your logo says about your company. Of course it’s not only your logo, it’s...

Improving the Odds of Making Sales

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I know that I have in the past harped on the concept of saying less about the wine and finding out more about the...

Leadership vs Management

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I found a great article by Jeffrey Glen on Business Dictionary.com and while it is longer than my usual blogs I wanted to print...

It’s Time For A Change

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“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.”  W. L. Bateman And nowhere is that quote truer than...

Always Making the Right Impression

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This week I was reading over some things I had written some time ago and came across this story I had written down, though...