Small Businesses

Bring Yarik Home – Help Spread a Great Message

by Chris Hughes on January 15, 2012


Lately I’ve been in a “I want to help people” mode. The past few posts here have been about finding ways to help other people and spread other people’s messages. Think I’m crazy for trying to help other people? Good. I am. The other day while I was at one of my part-time jobs and [...]

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Why I Don’t Do Free Consulting Anymore

by Chris Hughes on June 6, 2011


When I first started out my path of Internet Marketing and doing Social Media consulting for small businesses, I would often do it for free. I would be asked by a business owner what they needed to do in order to truly use social media to grow their business and what I thought they should [...]

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Small Business Marketing: Make Money With E-mail Marketing

by Chris Hughes on November 12, 2010


How do you bring people into your offline business? If you’re like 97% of the small businesses out there, it is probably by creating a sales funnel. Either you have a product on sale or a service on sale, which draws people into your business. This is done by paying for yellow page ads, buying [...]

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Your Small Business Doesn’t Need a Website

by Chris Hughes on November 10, 2010


Websites are over-rated. They also are way too expensive for some small businesses to afford. They really don’t provide a positive return for the majority of businesses that choose to use them either. Today I want to address the negative aspects of having a website and why they truly will not help you grow your [...]

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How To: Keep Tabs On The Competition

by Chris Hughes on April 20, 2010


Keeping a close eye on your competition is typically thought to only be something to worry about when you’re a “big dog”.  The majority of the top Fortune 500 companies have entire departments that are devoted to competitive intelligence keeping track of their competitors. As a small business owner, you probably have been put off [...]

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