
Transform a Seasonal Gift Business Into a Year-Round One
Imagine the Possibilities If You Know the Secrets
Imagine the Possibilities If You Know the Secrets
Gift Basket Network is all about helping you build and grow the gift business of your dreams and create the success you want while making friends and having fun. Whether you are working a full-time job and toying with the idea of starting your own business or you're already a business owner looking for more support and help to grow, we've got you covered.
Business Lessons from the 2016 Presidential Election
Business Lessons from the Presidential Election The election that ended on November 8th with a result that shocked the world provides some valuable insights to operating a business. Don’t worry, this is not going to be a political article. I’ve made it very clear how I feel on my personal Facebook page but politics … Read more
Read MoreAs the Crow Flies
Do you work a lot but when you look back at your day you realize you really haven’t accomplished much? I’ve found myself in that situation and I suspect many of you have as well. When I really look carefully at what I did that day, I see that my activities could be diagrammed on … Read more
Read MoreHow Many is too Many?
I’m often asked, “How many choices should I provide my customers in each category?” Or I’ve been told, “I don’t have enough designs to have a website?” So the two questions are: “How many designs are enough and how many are too many?” If you look at all the big boys who have gift basket … Read more
Read MorePlan Your Blog from the Beginning
Planning Your Blog from the Beginning Saves Time and Headaches One thing I’ve learned is that no one feels comfortable when they first start blogging. That’s why I suggested in the previous blogging post (What is Blogging?) that you might want to get your feet wet slowly by creating a trial blog at one of … Read more
Read MoreSmall Town Mindset
Do You Have a Small Town Mindset? During my lifetime, I’ve lived in towns and cities of all sizes. Large cities like Washington DC and Berkeley, California. Mid-sized cities like Pensacola, Florida and San Jose, California. Small cities like Santa Cruz, California and Flagstaff, Arizona (where I finally landed). But since my husband was a … Read more
Read MoreBlogging to Grow Your Business
Blogging – An Effective Way to Grow Your Business If you aren’t blogging, why aren’t you? If you don’t know what it means– or how to do it–it’s time to learn. And I’m here to teach you! What is Blogging anyway? Blogging is an amazing way for you to share information about your business (or … Read more
Read MoreBig Bird Teaches Marketing
We’ve all heard that an effective marketing technique is to grab a popular news story and use it to market your business. It’s a great technique. It works. But the question is how to make it work for you. This question takes me back to the Presidential election of 2012 when Big Bird gave a … Read more
Read MoreAre you using WordPress?
WordPress is the new Frontpage. It is an easy DIY free platform for building blogs. But wordpress.org is much more than just blog building software. With all kinds of themes and plugins (some free and some paid), you can build all kinds of sites. If you want to just build a blog to go with … Read more
Read MoreOne Minute Wisdom from Henry Ford
Here is a “One Minute Wisdom” piece of advice from American industrialist Henry Ford. A Market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one!” This little bit of wisdom has been forgotten as greed has overtaken and passed integrity in just about every industry in the world, … Read more
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