Category Archives: Small Business Stuff

It’s Blogging, not Rocket Science

Many small business owners have severe writers block. As I discuss in another post recently titled "The problem with (and solution to) Blogging for Entrepreneurs", an effective way of getting a blog rolling is to use your own personal voice when doing so. However, even that seems like a herculean task to someone who is...

The 5 Biggest Questions You Didn’t Ask Your Web Designer

The internet really is the weird world of the geek. From DNS to WYSIWYG there is a unique language that only geeks seem to understand. Unfortunately for the small business owner, they have to exist in that space... and it is not a normal environment for regular humans. We pride ourselves at Your-Web-Guys in being...

The Problem With (and Solution To) Blogging for Entrepreneurs

The Problem With (and Solution To) Blogging for Entrepreneurs

Everybody knows content is king. It's one of those phrases you hear when folks are advising a small business owner to blog more in order to get more traffic to their website. Problem is most small business owners aren't good at writing. They are good at doing whatever their company does, but many have trouble...

From Hero to Zero, Dallas Cowboys and the Sales Cycle

From Hero to Zero, Dallas Cowboys and the Sales Cycle

Sales, like football, is a psychological exercise. The term "Hero to Zero" is used in many sales rooms at the beginning of the month. As the sales manager wipes all the units sold on the board off from the previous month and writes the new month's name at the top he will say "everyone who...

What I learned about Sales by watching the Dallas Cowboys

What I learned about Sales by watching the Dallas Cowboys

This season has been a wonderful surprise for all Cowboys fans. We have trudged through years of rooting for a team that is the very definition of mediocre. But that all changed this season. Though it was never a sure thing. We watched the first game play out with dread, thinking that it was going...