Blogs Time to Try Something New
OK, so here is my first blog—now that I have started, there’s no stopping me….
We are excited about our new blogging section and hope that you find it interesting and beneficial. We have enjoyed seeing all the comments posted so far for our other bloggers. What would you like to read about? Let me know what we can write about to make this site the one you go to first every morning.
How has your business been in the past few weeks/months and what is the outlook for you moving toward year-end and into 2009? What kind of changes do you anticipate making to keep your bottom line positive? Will those changes relate to equipment, people, cash flow, marketing or technology? Where do you expect to focus your energies, cut back or re-evaluate to deal with a volatile economy?
Now is certainly a time for action, reflection, and…well, more action. None of us can rest on our laurels or assume that what has always worked before will continue to work. We must be educating ourselves, reading and listening to all that is going on around us. That is why I blog now, that is why I went on Twitter this weekend and started to Tweet (check this out http://twitter.com/tambram and follow my tweeting). You may want to Tweet as well, or blog to market your business. I have also been on Linked in (www.linkedin.com) for a while—a business network you might consider as a marketing tool.
We must all look for how to better market ourselves, better provide for our clients, better run our companies, better manage our staff so we can stay in this business until we no longer want to or no longer can work. That is our challenge—a big one. But learning something new every day just makes it more fun to get up every morning. What is something new you learned today?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Pulling old stragagies out of mothballs, remembering the eary 80’s. Don’t buy on credit for a while and pay down debt. Work to stay lean and spend wisely. Renforce good customer relations. Use your cash to buy deals rather than buying for expediency. Don’t lay off key people, you’ll need them all when the crisis ends. This will foster loyalty later on. Don’t be afraid or too proud to take work with small margins, the idea is to keep busy.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
We’ve started making some new marketing efforts, including starting a blog. We’re also making a concerted effort to get articles published about our company as well as the modular method and how it can speed up the construction process. Now is definitely the time to market your company to a newer audience.