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Shop Improvement Series: How to Market Your Company

Shop Improvement Series: How to Market Your Company

I think that we can all agree on one problem everyone in this industry has right now. We need more business. More customers. To ramp up sales. Kickstart the biz. Whatever you want to call it, this comes down to one thing. How you market…
Faster Recovery Three Key Factors

Faster Recovery: Three Key Factors

As I speak with people in the decorated apparel industry from around the country, it is very interesting to hear everyone's take on what we need to get reopened and moving again. I'm not touching the political debate, but there are three main…
Marketing During A Crisis

Marketing During A Crisis

Last Thursday I invited former Shirt Lab instructor Lori Feldman with The Database Diva to share her ideas on how to market during this pandemic crisis on a special Facebook Live interview that aired on the Atkinson Consulting Facebook page.…
7 Ways to Connect with Customers Now

7 Ways to Connect with Customers Now

Are you working on your "Next Normal" yet for your business? You should be. What I mean by this is that going forward how you interacted and marketed to customers may not work the same way that you are used to. There is a "Next Normal"…
Moving Through The Drowning Pool

Moving Through The Drowning Pool

In a few of my coaching sessions in these past two weeks, I've been using an analogy that I think explains the coronavirus pandemic effect on a business. Currently, it feels like you are swimming the length of an Olympic-sized pool underwater.…
COVID-19 Business Survival Guide

COVID-19 Business Survival Guide

Here's an article I never thought that I would have to write. In fact, I have another one that was ready to go, but I scrapped it at the last minute because I feel that this is more critical. For most businesses in this industry 2020 started…