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Exploding Flavor Bombs
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 4:08pm 0

Last week I picked up my first Los Poblanos Organics Harvest Box. I loved it, and my number one reason is Flavor, with a capitol F. That wasn't my number one reason for starting. Buying local and avoiding chemicals in our food...

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Buying local produce (one approach)
Wed, 06/16/2010 - 11:30am 0

I've been thinking for awhile that it would be good to buy local produce. My wife, who buys most of the groceries, already goes to 2 stores each week, and asking her to go to a third would probably not be good for my health. I'm lazy and I don't like driving places, or, well, leaving my home...

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How Hitch-hiking helped me Succeed in Sales
Tue, 05/18/2010 - 4:09pm  —  1

The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Sales Success

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Authors and readers suffer during clash of the Titans
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 7:10am 0

A dispute over pricing has led to Amazon making books published by Macmillan unavailable for sale on its website. In a world of huge,conglomerated book publishers and sellers, readers and authors are the causalities of such clashes of the titans. This is a wakeup call for people to turn back...

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Your Thanksgiving Homework: How Much Is A Customer Worth?
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:24am 0

Important distinction: A customer transaction is NOT the customer.  How many companies have lost your business over  - say - $200.00? Or even $2.00? This, when, you are really worth thousands over years of a relationship.

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Free & Low Cost Web Tools
Thu, 11/19/2009 - 10:51am 0

You've got little time and less money - so here are some tools you can (easily) use to improve your emarketing.

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Small Prices Can Kill Small Business

Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:46am 0

Or, as I advise clients - live by price, die by price.  (And, if you've got truly big competitors, they can - and will - take a loss for a bit to get the customers...and you'll be out of business.)

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Save The Local Economy - Three Stores At A Time
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 11:44am 0

(Thanks to AIBA member Jill Douthett for passing along this great info)

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Why Do YOU Buy/Eat/Drink/Whatever Local???
Fri, 09/11/2009 - 10:42am  —  2

Here at AIBA, we're all about Buy LOCAL - it's on the web site, our bumper stickers, and postcards you may have received lately.  And, it's the right thing to do, for many reasons - not the least being it keeps more dollars in the local economy, which helps all of us (and lessens our...

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How To Kill Your Small Business

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 11:25am 0

From Small Business Trends (recommended reading) 

"...you need to do only one thing.

You have to wait. That’s it. Just do nothing."

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Because Community Matters…
Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:11am 0

Jeff Milchen, Outreach Director for the American Independent Business Alliance talks softly and carries a big stick of passion wherever he goes: passion for locally owned, independent businesses and the...

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Does Anyone NOT Love Cheesecake?
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 7:57am 0

I confess. One of my biggest secret, guilty pleasures is Sara Lee cheesecake - when it's still somewhat frozen. However, as much as I enjoy cooking and baking I've somehow never really "done" cheesecakes.  But, then why should I - when we've got members like Mark Delaney of Continue reading »

We Will Survive! Local Biz Can Move Faster

Wed, 06/24/2009 - 8:18am 0

By Guest Blogger, Kelly Koepke

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Albuquerque on ANOTHER Top 10 List

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 8:20am 0

(Thanks to Sophie Martin at Duke City Fix for posting on this.) 

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ABQ is #2 (Do We Try Harder?)

Wed, 05/27/2009 - 7:54am 0

NM Biz Weekly Headline: Kiplinger's rankks Duke City second

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