by Moraware | Jul 10, 2018 | Business
Who needs marketing? Everyone. There are so many reasons why you should be giving your marketing some serious thought. So, is it part of your shop’s process and where does it fit in to your business plan? Let’s discuss! Free marketing can be your best tactic I don’t...
by Harry Hollander | Jul 5, 2018 | Business
I was on vacation with my family in southern Spain and combined that with a visit to Cosentino’s headquarters and industrial park outside of Cantoria, Spain. Thank you to Gemma and the whole team for the amazing hospitality and tour. A history of stone production One...
by Harry Hollander | Jul 2, 2018 | Business
If you’re like me, you probably have gotten a flurry of emails from various software and online service providers about how they’ve changed their privacy policies and terms of service to be more compliant with the GDPR (Europe’s new General Data...
by Moraware | Jun 15, 2018 | Business
Last week, I attended a Digital Stone Expo at Park Industries’ home base of Minnesota. As Joan Schatz mentioned in her opening remarks, these events feel like a reunion, because we get to see old friends and make some new ones. At an event like this, the...
by Moraware | Jun 4, 2018 | Business
Eric and I recently attended the Natural Stone Institute and Stone World South Carolina Stone Summit hosted by Pacific Shore Stones in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a great group gathered, with featured speaker G. K. Naquin of Stone Interiors in Loxley, Alabama....
by Harry Hollander | May 23, 2018 | Business
Imagine you’re on a remote island with poor phone service and a worse internet connection. Does your business continue to run and grow? Could you do that for a day? A week? A month? I’m trying that experiment right now. Even though I’m the president and one of...
