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  • 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,…

  • Seven Reasons To Use Social Media

    Your clients and competitors are all on social media, right? While that may be a sweeping generality, when you consider that there are more than 8,000,000,000 on the various social media platforms, you certainly could be missing opportunities. As with real estate, when it comes to reaching your potential clients it is all about location,…

  • Member Profile: Grupo Patron

    Owning and operating a restaurant requires a unique skill set that includes food knowledge & preparation, business acumen, customer service, vendor relations and more. In 2007 Lance Reynolds and Guillermo Salazar, with a combined 40 years in the restaurant industry, recognized the need for business consulting and established the bilingual restaurateur consulting firm Grupo Patron. Grupo Patron…

  • Top 5 business New Year’s resolutions

    The end of the business year is a great time to sit down and reflect on how your business fared over the year that’s just passed. It’s a perfect time to see if you achieved the goals you’d set for your business and what goals, both personal and professional, you’d like to attain in the…

  • How to Use Trade Dollars to Reward Employees

    As an employer and a member of a trade association you may sometimes wonder what, if anything, you could offer to your employees either as a reward or as a way to help your bottom line. We have compiled five ways in which you can use your trade dollars to compensate or reward employees: 1. …

  • How to market during the holidays: 5 tips for your email campaigns

    Now’s the time to ramp up your email marketing campaign for the holidays. While your customers may be busy at the malls and attending holiday parties, you want to keep your company front of mind even during these busy times. A focused holiday marketing campaign can not only keep your business front of mind with…

  • 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,…

  • Restaurants mix it up and keep the business coming in by turning to barter

    Barter has been around for centuries. It all began when the patient traded the doctor a chicken for medical services rendered. Today, barter has evolved to include anything from hair cuts to oil changes to enjoying a nice night out in a restaurant.

  • Grow Your Business with Barter

    In the 1800’s, barter was commonplace as people would pay the town grocer, the town doctor or the town barber with chickens or vegetables that they had grown on their farm. The problem was this system was inequitable. The doctor’s service was paid for with whatever the patient had on hand at the time, irrelevant…