How to Improve Your Small Business Website

Most micro and small businesses started a company website at launch in order to establish a brand identity, build credibility with potential buyers, cross temporal communication barriers, create another opportunity for lead generation or customer education, or even conduct online sales. However, as the company has grown and more information has been added, the site [...]

Choose Local Coffee

Need a little help finding local coffee houses or coffee shops to support? Here’s a map of Phoenix metro (including mostly East Phoenix, Central Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, and Chandler with some North Phoenix and North Scottsdale coffee places too): View Locally Owned Coffee Houses in a larger map Note: I mainly travel these areas so don’t [...]

Creative Connect Tomorrow

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Very excited to see the fun, funny, and talented John Tuomisto-Bell hosting Creative Connect at his studio in Phoenix tomorrow (Tuesday, 12/14). Who else is going?

New Fashionista Shop Local Event on Sunday

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Just found out about Thread from local designer friend Angela Johnson. It’s this Sunday at the Icehouse. Angela says: “This is a huge ‘emerging designer’ shopping event in California and they have come to Phoenix for the first time. Come and do some Christmas shopping or just spoil yourself for the holidays. They are also [...]

Who Started “Small Business Saturday?”

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Looks like someone is doing advertising (in)effectiveness research!  I found this poll in the sidebar of Facebook and found it–and the results!–interesting.