Last Days of the Year
20 Days for Sales Success Here is my annual advice to finish your year on a high note. There are 20 days left in 2019. Make the most of them. Successful sprinters are taught to “run through the tape.” Meaning they don’t slow down when they see the finish...
AFT and Dunlop Tires
Dunlop, AFT expand partnership December 11, 2019 American Flat Track and Dunlop Motorcycle Tires have announced another multi-year renewal to the longterm partnership between America’s Original Extreme Sport and the premier manufacturer of motorcycle tires in North America. Continuing on as the Official Tire of American Flat Track, Dunlop also announced the...
Retail Expo; The Future
V American Express Holding Consumer Experience Event In Honor Of Small Business Saturday Adweek (11/22, Zelaya) reported, “American Express will open a consumer experience in New York City that uses technology to show what the future of retail could look like over the next 10 years.” The company “conducted...
Regulations & Taxes Are a Problem
WSJournal: Taxes, Regulation Are Driving Businesses Out Of California The Wall Street Journal (11/27, Subscription Publication) said in an editorial that discount brokerage firm Charles Schwab’s decision to move its corporate headquarters from San Francisco to Texas is the latest in a line of businesses reducing their presence in...
Small business Marketing
Retailers Exploring New Holiday Marketing Strategies The AP (11/27, Rosenberg) reported that new small and independent retailers “ finding ways to give shoppers a reason to spend with them, not at the big stores like Target, Walmart and not with Amazon and other online merchants” during the holiday season....
Harley-Davidson Supports Flat Track Racing
Harley XG750R available; Harley-Davidson launches major support for AFT Production Twins in 2020 November 25, 2019 Harley-Davidson announced on Friday a major increase in their support of American Flat Track’s AFT Production Twins class. For the first time ever, authorized Harley-Davidson dealerships will now have the race-proven XG750R available...
$10,000.00 trade-in cap
Buy before the end of the year; $10,000 Trade-In Cap Starting January 1, 2020, the tax credit for a motor vehicle trade-in will be capped at $10,000. For example, a customer who trades in a vehicle valued at $20,000 against the purchase of a $36,000 vehicle currently receives a tax...
The Most Important Thing!
Learned in School; Your Single Most Important Lesson Quick, what’s the most important lesson you learned in college? Go ahead, I’ll wait. No, it wasn’t the differences between a parenthetical or appositive phrase in English. No, it wasn’t the law of small numbers. No, it wasn’t the accounting differences...
Sales people
Why Don’t they do it? One perennial management challenge we tackled in this session was the age-old problem of: Why don’t they do it? No matter what you try, you can’t seem to get some on your staff to act. You could have proverbial lightning in a bottle in...
How to market your business
Marketing Tips; Two business owners share tips for how to reach new and existing customers this Small Business Saturday. Small Business Saturday is fast approaching. For small business owners, the shopping event is an opportunity to encourage new and existing customers to support local businesses in their community. This...
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