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Making your small business look big

For scrappy entrepreneurs and small businesses, technology can be the great equalizer to make your company’s footprint look just like your largest competitors.
For your customers and potential customers, this enables them to feel better about dealing with a small business. If the value, selection, information, and responsiveness provided by your company matches what the big [...]

Marketing know-how for entrepreneurs

Professor Paul Farris at the University of Virginia’s Darden School once joked that, “Marketing is what fills that space between what the customer wants to buy and what your company wants to sell.”
My take on his statement is that we, as marketers, need to stay on our toes at all times. With changing media, technology, [...]

Tips on Dun and Bradstreet DUNS Numbers

Until a few years back, I had no idea what Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) did. I never was much of a finance whiz, nor had I ever borrowed even a dollar for a business. I guess that’s why I never had a DUNS number (also spelled D-U-N-S).
When I started a consulting business focused on government [...]