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How An Android Smartphone Saved My Small Business

I want to tell you how my Droid smartphone has more than paid for itself and my Verizon phone service for three years. My Droid has saved hundreds of hours of paper shuffeling, typing, fileing, a small forrest of trees and lots of expensive printer ink. Maybe thats why they call them smart phones? Three [...] Read more

Chocolate Candy and Baking Home Based Business

Half of U.S. Businesses Are Home-Based The U.S. Census Bureau reports that “Half of U.S. Businesses Are Home-Based, Majority of Firms Self-Financed” Almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home, and more than 6-in-10 owners used their own money to start the business, according to U.S. Census Bureau Read more
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Nutrition Articles Archive

In a continuing interest in food science as it relates to workday nutrition and energy, I have added a continuously updating section on food science news on our home page. This post also contains a link to our huge database of healthy articles that changes daily to suggest an interesting variety of articles for your [...] Read more
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Top 10 Reasons To Have An Honor Snack Tray

Top 10 Reasons For Honor Snacks At Work There are many good reasons to have an honor snack vending tray at your place of business. In addition to an easy, no contract or fee start-up, the operation is reminiscent of old time Southern honor based on a handshake and trust between friends. Yes that is [...] Read more
Mobile Marketing for Small Business

Mobile Marketing for Small Business

While vending in Pensacola yesterday I was listening to a course on mobile marketing, that I downloaded to my smartphone and was, playing through the stereo in the company vehicle. Then I noticed the person in the car next to me using her smartphone at the stop light. Now I am begining to believe the [...] Read more

Honor at work

Snack vending at work can get you through your mid day slump, or a mint before that big sales meeting can be critical, but excellent business managers realize that the honor feature of an honor snack tray can be an important tool. “If you can’t trust a man with small matters, how can you ever [...] Read more

How to get new customers in a slow economy

A slow economy is a perfect time for a refresher course on getting new customers. That’s what marketing is all about and I have an excellent set of videos, about online marketing that I want to share with our honor snack customers. The first video explains how to build a business website. It can help [...] Read more
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The Business of Business

The Business of Business

The business of business is business of course. Whether you deal primarily with end consumers or b2b business to business, marketing and advertising play a major role. Small business obviously has a completely different set of constraints than the big players. They, have an it service you, have a copy of “Marketing For Dummies”, Read more
Honor Still Lives in North West Florida

Honor Still Lives in North West Florida

After 25 years managing the Honest To Goodness honor snack business I would like to sincerely thank the employees at the hundreds of small and mid size businesses along North West Florida’s Beautiful Emerald Coast for being so honest. When I moved to Niceville from Pittsburgh 25 years ago people couldn’t believe there was a [...] Read more
Diet and Food Affect Your Blood Pressure

Diet and Food Affect Your Blood Pressure

Consumption of low amounts of chocolate relates to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, which is partly explained by a lower blood pressure. This is the conclusion of a study published in the European Heart Journal in March of 2010. Are you aware that what you eat can affect your blood pressure? Watching your diet [...] Read more