Up and Running

MAY 25, 2016

The Mohawk Valley Metric Century —a bike ride event in Eugene, Oregon—is an example of a benefit event held annually to raise money for Oregon Supported Living Program’s Arts & Culture Program. Be sure to consider your target audience, and to segment appropriately. Build a strong social presence.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Running a small business is no different. Les Schwab built the most successful tire company on the West Coast by noticing something that other tire store owners hadn’t: Les realized his core target audience was women, and he knew women placed a premium on clean bathrooms. See Also 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s normally $20 a month, so it’s a really affordable tool for you to do live business planning and tracking, and put a really compelling pitch together, and then invite investors in, or lenders in, or family members in, or mentors in to help you as you craft your pitch. It was a very different audience. That’s not good.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We wanted a conference room with a standing conference table (~$950 on up) and anti-fatigue mats , but so far we haven’t had the audience demand. BetterWorks offers large company group-buying for small businesses to take advantage of, for example, corporate gym discounts. Games / apps that promote fitness , e.g., Lose It!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Steve Woodruff serves as a Clarity Therapist to small businesses seeking to grow through more effective brand messaging. This post is brought to you from Steve Woodruff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Come find her on the Copyblogger blog, where she writes extensively about content marketing for small business. I don’t care how big or how small your business is.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. It was at this ad agency where she taught small businesses the value of a strong foundation and how they would grow with a strong brand. Most small businesses fall down here.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. When I walk off a stage and know that my audience will change their behavior, or solve a business challenge differently because of something I said, or a story I told, that is so personally gratifying. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. Remarkable.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

The conversation comes from running experiments with your audience, testing new markets, understanding the dynamics of the current market that you were occupying. Peter: Jonathan are you saying this kind of experimentation, this audience outreach is the equivalent of this plan revision side of the argument that you’re sticking to?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Human Resources and Conflict Resolution (22:32): Read more: Oregon’s New Sick Leave Law. Jonathan: How does a small business actually implement this if they want to do the Kanban style?

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. Lauren and I met at Stanford where we were on the track and field and cross country team. “Now we did about 1.1

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon. But of course a lot of small businesses around here, so we get a lot of people who might be owners or entrepreneurs. There’s no size too small, it’s about putting yourself in front of the right audience, or building the right audience.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2015

Do not lead to the Shark Tank effect—I guess I’ll call it—where the audience is always asking the same three questions every time you’re done with your presentation. When you practice your story, you first obviously have to write it down.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If you are willing to put in the time, and learn the necessary farming and business skills to become the profitable small business farmer you know you could be, there’s good news. Within just one yield, you’re out of business and all because you didn’t know where your target audience was located, or what their values were.

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