Sarah J. Doyle | November 9, 2012
At this special time of year you can make your family and friends VERY happy if you give a practical gift that they can enjoy throughout the year. Think about each person’s “likes”, hobbies and even things that you know they would really enjoy but wouldn’t buy for themselves. I always try to get my [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 15, 2010
Anybody who is in the sewing/crafting/alterations business would probably laugh at the title of this post. In the past I would have laughed as well. Denise, over at ShopperStrategy has a post entitled “How To Make $100/Hour Clipping Coupons” that I found very interesting. Apparently the Wall Street Journal has an article written by Brett [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 11, 2010
Last week I did a post encouraging people to step “outside the box”, as they say, in order to increase profits by increasing services. This week I have a perfect example of doing just that! Denise, my daughter and business partner, has 4 year old quadruplet “babies” and an older son who is 5 (as many of [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | December 14, 2009
If you have a business where you can issue a “coupon”, you’ll be on the road to additional sales! A few years ago we sent out “gift certificates” in the amount of $5.00 or $10.00 good on the customers’ next purchase from our catalog, or listing of books in the back cover of a book [...]
