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Ryan Crownholm of Dig & Demo on ABC 7 News

February 18, 2014 By Jeremy Shapiro

Bay Area Mastermind Member Ryan Crownholm of Dig & Demo in Walnut Creek was featured on ABC 7 News recently. As this drought becomes more and more of a reality in the Bay Area, some people are taking leaking swimming pools into account in their water conservation decisions. More and more of Ryan’s customers are […]

Filed Under: Member News, Motivational, Small Business Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, dig & demo, pool removal, ryan crownholm

When The Irresistible Offer Goes Bad

October 12, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

man walking inside mall collage

Many marketers have heard of the power of providing customers and prospects with an irresistible offer or mafia offer. In other words, this means making an offer to your prospects or customers that is so irresistible that they simply can’t say no to. When properly utilized an irresistible offer will bring in more customers to […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Lead Generation, Marketing Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, irresistible offer, marketing, Robert Estupinian, small business profitability

Bay Area Mastermind mid-year economic review

August 2, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

The View of the US Economy mid year

By Robert Estupinian As we begin the second half of the year we wanted to take a moment and provide our readers with a view of the economy and our forecasts going forward.There is a lot of economic data being spewed out these days in the media. It is not uncommon for the same data […]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Economy, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business profitability, small business success

Motivating Thoughts From Bay Area Mastermind

April 23, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

To get this week off to a great start, We wanted  wanted to share with you two videos that help put things in the right perspective.  Sometimes it just helps all of us to be inspired by the courage and strength of others. Being in business for ourselves can be a lonely journey.  It is […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Motivational Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business motivation, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, s, small business

Is Your Business Following Up on Leads The Right Way?

April 1, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

Getting your staff to Follow up the right way on your leads

By Robert Estupinian In this article I wanted to discuss the valuable concept of follow-up and why it is not working in many businesses today. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a professional services conference during which I left my contact information at many vendor booths.  Three weeks later only two of the many […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Lead Generation, Sales Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, online sales, Robert Estupinian, Sales performance, Sales Teams, selling, small business profitability

3 Things You Can Do When You Are Mentally Stalled Out

February 10, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

Every business owner has faced the same frustrating situation, feeling stuck. I’m talking about not seeing how to get through a tough business problem. No matter how much you keep working at it the problem will not go away. For some business owners getting stuck is frightening. Let’s take a look at what can be […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Motivational Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success

5 IRS Audit Red Flags Business Owners Need to Know For 2012

February 1, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

Like most governmental agencies the IRS is looking for money and it appears that the amount of audits will be up again this year. As you can imagine the service uses computer algorithms to search returns for items that may be out of the ordinary. In this post we will examine some of the most […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Taxation Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success, taxes

How To Price Your Services and Products in A Weak Economy

January 30, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

By Robert Estupinian Last week J.C. Penny announced it would be changing the way that it will price its merchandise. No longer will the company be offering sale prices. Instead the retailer will be slashing all prices by 40% and keeping them there. Previously, the company would hold hundreds of sales every year, and their […]

Filed Under: Economy, Marketing, Pricing Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, Economy, entrepreneurship, marketing, Pricing, recession, Robert Estupinian

A Quick View of What Is New With Facebook

August 7, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

face book is important for small businesses

In our last post we began to talk about the importance of social media for the business owner.  According to some reports, Facebook currently has more than 750 million users.   Half of these users are on Facebook at least several times a day.  This is one reason that 75% of advertisers are planning to increase […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business profitability, social media

Social Media for Small Businesses: 6 Effective Strategies

August 4, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

Bay Area MAstermind Helps with Social Media

By Robert Estupinian Social Media has quickly become a very opportunistic way to market a business.  Facebook has exploded into the second most popular website in the world with over 750 million users and half of them log on to the site every single day. Twitter is also in the top 15 on most days […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success, social media

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