By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Marketers no doubt face many challenges in the months ahead as the new coronavirus spreads like a wildfire across the United States. As a small business marketer, consider putting at the top of your list what the bigger companies already are doing: Assuring your customers that you will […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With just a few months looming until advertisers are expected to comply with California’s new data privacy act, only about 8 percent of businesses are prepared for it, according to a recent survey by consent solutions provider PossibleNow. Other polling suggests that only about half of businesses say […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A $57 million fine that the French data protection authority levied on Google last week is the largest yet under the European Union’s newer privacy law, and it could well bolster efforts to enact similar legislation in the United States. California already has passed a data privacy protection […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Big brands as well as start-ups are finding that blending a brick-and-mortar presence with online commerce is just the experience that internet-savvy shoppers crave. A case in point for this “bricks and clicks” sort of marketing strategy is one newer start-up whose business in the United States has […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though the advent of the internet still causes many to predict doom for the world of print, marketers in recent years have proven such a prophecy to be what we might call, well, “fake news.” Rather, marketers have found that print marketing with its variety of tools — […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though they may not know the full impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 until tax time next year, early indications are that a majority of small business owners are aware of what the act might mean for their business’ future — and that many […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. As the owner of a small business who wants to ramp up your marketing strategy, you’ve already tried the do-it-yourself route and found the complexities and time so overwhelming that you’ve added a marketing manager to your staff. However, that manager, you’ve realized, doesn’t really understand the path […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. The maxim that “time is money” often is attributed to Benjamin Franklin from an essay, “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” in 1748. Other researchers say the phrase actually appeared a few decades earlier in a magazine, The Free-Thinker, while others trace the adage to ancient Greece In any […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. As small businesses enter the 2018 calendar year, economic optimism among them is at its highest since the days of the Reagan administration, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported in November. The entrance of a new Republican administration in 2017 and its plans for tax reform, […]
Wearing multiple hats is no easy job for anyone, but it comes with the territory of managing your own business, or starting up your, well, start-up. Time management skills become essential, but the fact remains: There’s only so much you (or a small team) can do in 24 hours in the day. Fortunately, there are multiple cost-effective […]