Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In this article, I’ll go over what you need to do to make Instagram work for your small business, and show you how to develop a content strategy that highlights your business and helps build your brand. See Also: Facebook Marketing: A Small Business Guide. Set up your business Instagram account.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

The Mattress Lot is a shop in Portland, Oregon that was started out of desperation after the shop owner, Michael Hanna, lost his job with Comcast and had trouble finding another one. Now they are a focal point and beloved player in the Portland indie business scene. They happen in smaller niches too.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Thankfully, the availability of other unconventional funding options is also increasing, providing capital to entrepreneurs whose businesses may grow to become long-term customers. Big companies that invest in small businesses play an important role in creating jobs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2014

How to Get More Customers for Free This Week Through Google written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You see neighboring businesses, competitors, and everyone else get customers through their door, and you’re getting nothing. Getting even MORE customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. ” So it was a breath of fresh roast (so to speak) to come back home and find this week’s small business spotlight in my inbox. Related posts: Small Business Spotlight of the Week: French Truck Coffee.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Breweries don’t really win customers with one beer, but they can lose customers with one beer.”. Relationships.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so they are devouring click-throughs that used to go to either a small business website or even a big brand website that might have a local presence. They’re still getting a phenomenal number of impressions and click-throughs and interactions from customers. David thanks for joining me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It’s all the businesses that are shifting their relationships with their customers to be a ongoing relationship based on a subscription. And you need to then decide again and again with each renewal that it is still providing value to you, so that’s a different mindset on behalf of the customer. Does that make sense?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

I wanted to do what I guess we would now call a coworking space, like the We Works of the world, but it was more old-fashioned and it was executive suites with small private offices but shared receptionists, shared secretarial, if you will, shared copier services. It was just a thing I grew up with. The software was different.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. While momentum has slowed slightly, food trucks continue to be a profitable restaurant business model. To help customers find your food truck, mobile apps like Roaming Hunger and Eat St.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2016

When I was nine years old, I never dreamed that the small, quarter vending machine I owned would turn me into a small business owner and a college graduate. Wanting to inspire a sense of entrepreneurship and business in his daughter, my dad brought home a vending machine he had purchased from a friend.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. (And Know your customers and your financials.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Below are tried and true tips to building a brand ambassador program that will keep your business growing and growing. Tip #1: Really listen to your customer. Running a small business is no different. For example, in it’s 44 years of business, Southwest Airlines has never furloughed its employees.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Black Friday is great and all, but if you’re only going to hit the big box stores, you could be missing out on a number of unique things that small businesses are offering. Small Business Saturday is tomorrow. It was started by American Express in 2010 to encourage people to shop at small businesses.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. What makes running a business worth it? For Jude’s Foods and businesses like it, that means Gluten Intolerant Group and Specialty Food Association.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Business Schools. Small Business. Photograph by Oli Scarff/Getty Images A man uses Siri on the new iPhone 4S after being one of the first customers in the Apple store in Covent Garden. Startups had to charge customers a per-use fee—a very unpopular model—or cover the tab on their own. Custom Publishing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. She sells custom cross stitch pieces, which are humorous, clever, and definitely memorable.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

On the retail side, Stuart watches per-customer spend and same-day sales comparisons. To keep track of the business side of the operation, Stuart uses QuickBooks online, a variety of spreadsheets specifically designed for Red Wagon, and Palo Alto Software’s LivePlan. On the wholesale side, he watches the velocity rate.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed. Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new. The customer validation phase is critical for that kind of thing. Definitely check out your area.

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