Post-Holiday Marketing: Keeping New Customers
The holidays bring a wave of new customers, and January quietly takes most of them away. Many first-time buyers never come back, not because they were unhappy …
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Gift Wrapping and Packaging Supply Tools for Online Shops
When your orders double in December, packaging stops being a nice detail and becomes a supply chain. Run out of mailers or tape in the second week of the rush …
How to Start a Mobile Knife Sharpening Service
Almost every kitchen has a drawer of dull knives, and very few people know how to fix them. A mobile knife sharpening service brings the fix to them: to homes, …
Year-End Accounts Receivable Cleanup
Your accounts receivable list says customers owe you money. The question is whether that list is still telling the truth. A short, focused cleanup in October …
Holiday Window Displays on a Budget
Your shop window is the one advert that works every hour you are open and plenty of hours you are not. In the holiday season it can turn a hurried passerby into …
Startup Contractor to Employee Conversions
Your best contractor has been with you for a year, works almost full time and knows the product better than some of your employees. Bringing them onto the team …
How to Start a Holiday Baking Business From Home
Every December, people who love to bake hear the same thing: "You should sell these." A holiday baking business from home can turn that compliment into real …