A Look Back at the 5 Most Popular Posts in Our #THRIVE15 Series

The 5 Most Popular #THRIVE15 Posts The end of the year often means it’s time for those “lists” that people love to put out. I confess, I rather enjoy them and want to get on the bandwagon. So today, I thought I’d let you in on the five most popular posts from the...

To Improve Your Business, Involve Your People

Part #2 in a Series: What Our ISO Certification Means to You You’ve heard it from many companies, in their marketing materials and in the speeches given by top executives at industry conferences: “Our people are the secret to our success.”  Or “our most important...

5 Time Saving Tips for the Holidays – #THRIVE15

Starting Early is Only One Tactic This is the week it all kicks off for real. Oh sure, you’ve been hearing holiday music in stores for a while, but with Thanksgiving just ahead, I wanted to share some time (and sanity) saving ideas for the holidays while you can still...

What A Difference Three Letters Make – When Those Letters are ISO

Part #1 in a Series: What Our ISO Certification Means to You As you may remember, a few months back Superior Business Solutions earned ISO 9001: 2008 certification. We were (and are) pretty proud of that. ISO Certification takes a great deal of dedication and effort...

Is Taking Time Off Bad For Business? #THRIVE15

Quite the Opposite – Your Dedication Could Be Holding Your Business Back Maybe you’ve seen the TV car commercial where a guy actually leaves his office job at 5 p.m., earning stunned stares and quiet admiration from jealous coworkers for his ‘bravery.” Chances...

5 Steps To A Happier Corporate Holiday – #THRIVE15

Make the Holidays Happy for You, Your Co-Workers and Your Clients When you’re in business, the holidays can be equal parts delight and dread. Sure the atmosphere is festive, and who doesn’t enjoy the chance to share in the music, the gifts and the special family...

How To Turn Your Leads Into Sales

Leads are important to your business, of course, but leads aren’t merely commodities to gather and store like a squirrel stashes acorns. Leads need to be carefully tended to, monitored and developed because only when they grow into conversions do they add any value to your bottom line.

5 Tips for Dealing With Difficult Co-workers – #THRIVE15

  Working It Out At Work Perhaps you’ve noticed that people come in all different types and some of those types can be pretty hard to get along with. Whether it’s in the grocery store or during rush hour on the highway there are people who seem to just have a...

Why Adults Need Recess!    #THRIVE15

  Goofing Off Can Be Good For Business Maybe you’ve heard rumors about the unique working environments at many of today’s best-known technology companies.  This Time photo essay is a pretty good confirmation that the “work” day at Google, for one example, has a...

Wanted: Your Ideas on Business Success!

  I’ll Share Your Tips, and Let People Learn More About You! All of us is smarter than any of us. I heard that somewhere long ago and it has always stuck with me. And last week, while I was writing the post on tips for new business owners, I started to think...

7 Things Every New Business Owner Needs To Know

  These Tips Might Tip The Scales in Your Favor According to an item from Forbes, more than 500,000 new businesses are started each month. Many of those are single proprietor start-ups that don’t have employees. But that’s still an astounding number and every one...

SMS Text Mobile Marketing Made Easy

When Customers Get The Message, Will You Get the Sale? Texting is a hot topic these days. But maybe you haven’t heard much about one very interesting aspect, text marketing. SMS (Short Message Service) text mobile marketing is an important consideration for almost...

Want More – and More Profitable – Appointments?

How to Get Appointments with Prospects Almost every business depends on effective selling. I know ours does, and ditto for most of the people I talk to.  And in selling, there’s no substitute for talking to potential customers face to face. But that’s no easy thing to...

5 Ways To Get Your Business Noticed

Being Good Is Important…But So Is Being Seen There’s certainly no substitute for offering your customers a quality product or service when you run a business. Long-term success depends on it. Here at Superior Business Solutions, we pay plenty of attention to...

How Much Technology Is Too Much for Happiness?   #THRIVE15

  Things Could Be Looking Up – If You Look Up From Your Smartphone It seems like everywhere I go these days, people are on their phones. They are not just making phone calls of course, they are texting, taking photos and sharing them on social media, using...

Want Great Marketing ROI? Just Try a Letter!

Why Not Just Try a Letter? When you are looking to get a great response to a print marketing campaign, have you ever considered just sending a direct mail letter? The results are in and as I recently told you, Direct Mail works, but why not just try a letter? Letters...