Mine Your Own Business

We've Moved

2011-03-22T16:23:28-05:00

Mine Your Own Business has moved to a new site Mine Your Biz that will give us more flexibility in the future. One of the great new tools is a search function where you can search all of our previous...

Optimism Reigns Again?

2011-03-17T16:47:38-05:00

The main office of Tacony Corporation is located in St. Louis, MO (well actually Fenton, MO) and as in many areas of the country it has been a long, cold, and ugly winter. As a side note, St. Louis is...

Weathering a Sales Slump

2011-03-15T16:05:06-05:00

Hopefully the Great Recession is over for your small business or ,even better, maybe it didn't impact your business much in the first place. Even as the economy begins to recover, many small businesses sometimes experience an occasional slump. It...

Web Survey Tools

2011-03-10T16:10:28-06:00

We did a posting last month titled A Simple Way to Survey that described a new survey tool designed for mobile devices that made it easy to create simple and short surveys. Not everyone has an iPhone, iPad, or other...

5 Myths to Live a Longer Life Debunked

2011-03-08T16:19:10-06:00

Many small business owners are so passionate about their business that they rarely, if ever think about retirement and put in long hours contributing to the success of their business. In the past this would seem to be a recipe...

More Friday Fun

2011-03-04T11:53:53-06:00

I had to name this post More Friday Fun since we had already done a post called Friday Fun back in May of last year. It focused on an article about six ways a small business could use video to...

Breaking the Ice with Prospective Customers

2011-03-02T15:51:05-06:00

How to approach your regular customers when they come through the front door of your business is usually pretty simple. If they are frequent visitors to your store you have already established some sort of relationship with them and sometimes...

Improve Your Social Media Results

2011-02-25T16:09:06-06:00

There are many variations of an old adage in advertising that goes something like this, "I know that half my advertising works...I just don't know which half!" I wondered who first came up with this humorous statement and according to...

Is Cloud Printing Right for your Small Business?

2011-02-24T15:58:36-06:00

Cloud computing is all the rage today for many companies and when I ran across an article mentioning cloud printing it got my attention. By the way if you are not familiar with the term cloud computing or want to...

Major Illnesses Impact on Small Business

2011-02-23T16:46:53-06:00

I partially remembered a famous quote about near a death experience making a person stronger, so I did an Internet search and came up with two similar quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. The first one goes like this, "That which does...