Urbanham Business

The 2009 Brand My Business Contest

Get ready for your chance to win a $5,000 Marketing Package for your small business! If you have a small business and need a branding campaign or an existing small business and would like to refresh your look here is the chance to win over $5,000 worth of branding and marketing services! What you can win! A professionally designed website ($ 2,500) 5,000 full color fliers or 5,000 mailers ($ 350.00) 1,000 full color business cards ($ 150.00) $ 2,000 worth of advertising on Urbanham.com Contest begins June 10, 2009 and here is what you need to do to enter. Simply add your business to our ...

5 Tips to Survive Today’s Economy

By Joel Blakley, Business Credit Services Everywhere you turn, you hear more doom and gloom. Believe it or not, I'm confident and upbeat. I am a firm believer that in every situation, regardless of what the news sources say, there is opportunity. I put together some tips for you to consider. Perhaps one or more of them will help you. Take a look: 1) Get up and fight! Over the last year, many small businesses have failed. Consumer confidence is very low, and people are less willing to spend on items that aren't a necessity. We all know this. We hear it every ...

10 Steps for Creating a Successful Business

Step 1: Create a Life Plan Plan your life, then plan your business. As we always say, plan your life, then plan your business. Some of the most successful and happy people we know are entrepreneurs who created a business that’s in perfect synchronicity with what they want out of life. If you do what you love, you’ll work harder, better and more happily. In this step we will focus on: Elements of your Life Plan Using your Life Plan Elements of your Life Plan: Your Current Status Think carefully and honestly about where you are now in your life. Consider work, recreation, relationships, finances and anything else that’s ...

10 Steps to Excellent Customer Service

We've been hearing for years that the United States is becoming a service economy. If that's true, and our success (or failure) hinges on the way we deliver customer service, why are so many companies so bad at it? You see it in so many companies that deliver services that it no longer is surprising when it happens. We've become so used to it that it doesn't even faze us any more.

Learn to Twitter if you want to stay connected

As a chief inspiration officer for San Antonio’s Sales by 5, Nan Palmero is a technology power user. So when he flipped open his Dell laptop last week and saw vertical lines, he shifted into uber-geek mode. He tracked down a YouTube video that displayed the exact problem and called a Dell support technician. “I wanted to email him the video so he could troubleshoot quickly,” Palmero says. The specialist couldn’t accept an e-mail and, instead, started to submit Palmero’s request into that black hole, otherwise known as the repair request process. Annoyed, Palmero sent out a Tweet on social networking ...