Let the tax season begin! February 12th was officially the first day of tax season 2021. While it’s not actually a pay “day”, but more like a pay “period”, February 12th through April 15th and beyond. Take note, the 2021 tax season is 2 weeks shorter than both...
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Staying Connected in 2021
Depending upon your business category, acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. Knowing this, it only makes sense to do everything you can to maintain a relationship with your current customers, better known as Core...
Caring For Your Customers
Do you appreciate your customers? Think about this for just a minute and then answer it honestly. I’ll ask you again, do you appreciate your customers? I mean REALLY appreciate them! We’ll assume that you answered yes. Now, here is the most important question. Do...
Top of Google or Top of Mind
In today’s changing media world, when it comes to your current customers and your future customers, is it more important to have Top of Mind Awareness or be at the top of the page on Google? Of course, it’s great to be recognized by both customers and Google, but if...
Your 2021 Marketing Plan
2020 is thankfully coming to an end, and you have made it through another year in an increasingly competitive and complex environment! Congratulations! But how is your future looking? Peter Drucker, who has been described as “the founder of modern business...
Problems = Opportunities
Have you heard the classic tale of the two shoe salesmen who were sent to a remote third-world village to sell shoes? When they arrived at the village, one immediately sent a message to his office saying, “There’s a problem. No one here wears shoes. Will return...
Out with the Old, In with the New
In the old media world, 86% of advertising budgets went towards production and delivery costs that are totally unnecessary in the new electronic media age. This archaic mode of communication came at the cost of harvesting trees, operating expensive pulp and paper...
Do Your Customers Trust You?
Trust… It’s not just for personal relationships. It’s a MUST in business too! Put yourself in your customers’ shoes. Do you trust the vendors that you do business with? Are they providing you with or doing things for you that consciously or subconsciously earn...
Priceless
Do you remember the old Mastercard campaign? The title of it was “Priceless” and the impact of the campaign was “priceless”. “There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.” This “idea” turned this struggling company around and saved...