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I just got a phone call from a survey company asking me if I was a customer of a local restaurant… Turns out I was not and because I am in a marketing business they did not want to ask more questions…I asked them what kind of questions they were going to ask and basically it was along the lines...

Have you got orders from the area you “worked” that did not take you up on your offer? It may be that your response is actually higher than you think…

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/walmart-canada-visa-1.3630956 Not sure if this kind of pressure will cause Visa to reduce charges or just find a way to pass them along to smaller businesses that do not have a “big stick” like Walmart…

That is like “banker’s hours”…LOL…

http://www.ijreview.com/2016/05/611792-kids-were-loving-the-free-pizza-a-church-was-handing-out-at-school-til-the-union-came-knockin/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=legal

If you can handle his “matter of fact” way, Steve is a tremendous resource…Sometimes you have to take the “chaff with wheat” to get all the good that comes from him and others that sometimes come across in a “tone” that may rub some the wrong way…

We have a restaurant in town called “The Colander”…For years they have been serving their “special”…Salad, spaghetti, meatballs, chicken, potatoes, dinner roll and coffee…The food keeps coming if you are eating…Quite often even with only the 1st serving there is enough for leftovers…Current...

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/nov/17/vehicles-lighted-signs-draw-police-scrutiny/

Just saw the news about Wendy’s… http://www.techinsider.io/wendys-workers-will-lose-jobs-to-robots-2016-5

I am thinking this car and others like it in the fleet really get noticed around Westland MI… PS…There is a great article in this month’s PMQ about this operation…Says the cars pay for themselves…

I read somewhere the RockTenn has a minimum of 50,000…

It has been 15+ years since I had a pizza place so this comes from my current business …Something I tell my clients is “sometimes” more aggressive marketing can work better than coupons…Say for example you are doing 1,000 a day in gross sales but giving away 150.00 to 200.00 revenue in...

I am really bad at math so I am not going to bother…LOL…

While trade shows are a nice place to display goods, the cost of attendance is “over the top” these days…Some can use other methods of marketing and do just as well…

For 15+ plus years I have been trying to figure this out and still work on it every day…There is no one size fits all solution…Good luck…

What is most important IMO, if it does add overhead, will the increase in overhead be offset by an increase in sales…It may be that this vehicle does not add any more costs to the equation any another kind of delivery vehicle…...

Pretty sure this is more about “marketing” than anything else…

If you read through the archives here, you will find folks that do quite well offering products in a “niche” market…However, you will also find some that cannot attract enough sales to be profitable in the “niche” they ate going after…You need to determine what folks in your market want, how...

Curious how effective targeting box toppers are in raising tickets…Is the extra time and effort worth it?..

Not fun…Just by co-incidence, a friend from here was in Kennewick on the weekend and had to call home for help…Her truck broke down and she had to get her husband to rescue her… I am located just across the BC/WA border where the Columbia River enters the US…So a few hundred miles upstream from...