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  • Want to grow your business? Embrace social media

    Many small business owners say they can’t see the benefit of jumping into social media. They aren’t certain how – or even if – it will generate any leads or new business for them, and many of them become disillusioned when they don’t see overnight results. It is true that social media may not benefit…

  • Marketing tips to catapult your business forward

    If you start your business with a large customer base, you’re ahead of the game, but for most entrepreneurs growing a business takes time and effort. Some people are able to jump in and make money in a short time, but even those entrepreneurs have likely been in some sort of business and have accumulated…

  • Dental Practice Marketing: Trade as a Marketing Strategy in Today’s Economy, It Just Makes Sense

    If you’re like most dentists, you’re no stranger to barter.  Perhaps you’ve traded directly with patients many times for things like website design, computer repairs, and more.  However, it’s likely that the value of the service that you provided was far greater than the service they provided to you, therefore leaving you feeling a little…

  • 5 tips to cut costs and increase productivity – it can be done!

    It’s getting harder to make ends meet in your business today but it is possible – even if you have had employee cutbacks to still increase productivity. The United States Federation of Small Business and DYMO undertook a survey that showed that because of the downturn in the economy many small businesses are making cuts to…

  • Tradesource Member Profile: Scott’s Generations

    Scott’s Generations has been the staple of its central Phoenix neighborhood since 1989, when native New York father and son, Gene and Scott Snyder, moved to Arizona and opened the deli.  Daily, from breakfast to dinner, Scott’s serves authentic New York cuisine, including lox, knishes, and cheesecake, along with traditional soups, salads and sandwiches.  Scott’s, located…

  • Tradesource Member Profile: PJs Flowers

    Fifteen years ago, Tony Medlock left a world to which many others aspire. He left his job as a rock and roll lighting director and the cold weather of Springfield, Missouri in 1995 and moved to Phoenix. Though he originally bought the business for his wife, he wound up becoming one of the top florist…

  • 4 reasons your business should participate in trade

    As an entrepreneur, whether you’re starting a business or growing an existing one, trade can help you preserve cash and get your venture launched or expanded. In today’s economy, trade is a must-have if you want your business to survive and thrive. Trade, also known as barter, is the exchange of goods or services for…

  • Tradesource Member Profile: Wright Consulting LLC

    Orville Wright III, the founder of Wright Consulting LLC, has spent most of his life in the Valley.  He seems to have been a born entrepreneur, having started making money at eight years old doing landscaping for his local Taco Bell.  He moved up to making a profit reselling Bubble Yum, painting addresses on carports,…

  • Tradesource Member Profile: Cold Wave Heating & Cooling Service

    One day, while Robert Scheffrin was working in his father’s refrigerated warehouse in Denver, when the freezer broke down.  He was fascinated by what the repairman was doing and asked him how to get into the business.  The next day, he enrolled in vocational school, and went on to start his own commercial refrigeration business. …

  • Phoenix conference focuses on restaurant owners

    Read what Phoenix Insight Business Examiner Denise Meredith had to say about the Phoenix restaurant conference industry. Click here.

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