2025 Travel Market Looking Promising If your US-based travel agency enjoys having Americans as your primary customer, you may be in for quite a year ahead. In fact, the travel market forecast for the next 5 years is looking good too. Along with a booming US economy, the rising US dollar will make most foreign…
Small Business Marketing Report The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) says its latest Small Business Optimism Index jumped 8.0 points to 101.7 last month, the highest level since June 2021. They report the percentage of owners expecting the economy to improve rose 41 points from October to a net 36%, the highest since June…
10 Essential Traits that Mark Outstanding Leaders Talk about leadership online in the last 5 years might be mundane and cliched and you might even wonder whether the topic has any value anymore. Yet, leadership for business owners is worth discussing. If the value of these principles is cast aside routinely in favor managing activities…
The 2025 Revival of Small Business Travel agencies, retail shops, SaaS software startups, and real estate brokers are small businesses and they haven’t been represented well in the last 4 years. And small business provides most of GDP and income/jobs for most Americans. They employ 61 million people or 45.9% of the entire U.S. workforce…
Canadian Companies Providing a Mission Critical, Cost-Effective Resource One unleveraged source of value that American companies can explore is in outsourcing labor to Canadian contractors. For startups and cash-crunched companies, this is a significant and vital part of saving funds to stay competitive. And competing against large companies will be more difficult in 2024. Extra…
Oil Price and Gasoline Price Forecasts Oil and Gasoline prices are expected to rise in 2024, pushing ever higher over the next 5 years as the US and global economies recover from the pandemic inflation rollercoaster. Yet today prices fell 4% on news that Russian crude supply is back up. It seems there is little…
Find the Right Cities to Grow In Are you thinking about how to triple or quadruple your sales in 2018? After just a little thought, you may discover what these 2 reports from Inc.om and Entrepreneur.com below reveal, that there are some great cities to build your business and achieve strong business results. And before…
New Business Opportunities in Los Angeles The City of Angels makes us believe in the impossible. California as a whole is an inspiring place to do business, and just by participating in this market you could reimagine your business and accelerate profits. Are you a no limits business person or are you weighed down by…
Developing New Business in Boston I’ve worked with many clients in the Boston MA area and I would be thrilled to work with Massachusetts companies again. I’m very familiar with the Boston housing market and related industries including moving companies and building supplies. Boston businesses are spread out over the greater Boston area into a…
Your Best Clients may not be in your Home City They might be anywhere out there, and you’ll need a plan/strategy to reach them and work with them. Have you avoided doing this because you couldn’t visualize how to do it? Well, let’s fix that shall we. Creating new clients in remote locations seems daunting…
Vancouver – Canada’s Golden Child is Growing Up Many of my US clients have commented that they believe Vancouver is the best city in the World. It might be hard to argue against because not only has Vancouver become more beautiful, it’s also become an economic powerhouse. Vancouver has the type of issues you find…
Is It Time to Grow Your Business? Surveys show many companies are happy with their digital marketing services and sales performance. The economy is booming and times are good. While things are so good, and you’re most able to expand, how outlandish would it be for you to explore new markets in the US and…
Creating New Clients in San Diego, CA Vancouver, Los Angeles, and SF Bay Area have reputations that draw millions of people and companies to move there. It’s no different for what may be everyone’s favorite place — San Diego. This city’s beautiful modern amenities, proximity to Mexico and Asia, and its subtropical climate make it…
AI Marketing Solves Your Challenges As an CEO, SMB owner, agency director, or startup entrepreneur, you’re concerned with the cost of investing in marketing solutions. And that’s if you can find and hire excellent marketing or SEO specialists to help you build market leader status. That bar keeps rising. Yes, times are good across the…