How to build and grow a million dollar business from successful marketing expert Richelle Shaw. Marketing tips tools seminars on direct marketing and systems to improve profits

Richelle Answers Fortune Small Business’s Questions

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by admin.

Richelle gives her advice on hiring a good manager -
Ask FSB Are you happy with the manager you hired to run your …

… I always opened all mail and signed all checks to keep an eye on the business. Posted By Richelle Shaw, Las Vegas, NV : November 9, 2007 11:41 pm …
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Richelle Featured in USA Today!

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by admin.

USATODAY.com - Opportunity dressed in work clothes

A few years ago, 30-year-old Richelle Shaw was earning a six-figure income working in upper management for a Las Vegas telephone service company. …
www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/edmunds/2002-08-27-opportunity_x.htm - 50k -

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Richelle Featured in Smart Money - SmSmall Business

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by admin.

Work life and balance for the entrepreneur - Read about Richelle’s life as a "control freak"
http://www.smsmallbiz.com/bestpractices/Kick_the_Control_Freak_Habit.html?cid=23
 

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Articles Written about Richelle!

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by admin.

Workplace Diversity Policies: Toothless Tigers?
Human Resource Executive Online - Horsham,PA,USA
… begin by focusing on skills and abilities, says Las Vegas-based FreshStart Telephone owner Richelle Shaw, the nation’s only female public-utility owner. …

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3 Steps to Recession Proof Your Business

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by admin.

During a recession it is important to focus of the 3 R’s of your business.
1.  Retention - Keeping your existing customers by making sure that their experience is phenomenal.  I was able to create a fabulous experience for my customers of the telephone company.  I targeted people who had been disconnected before and were not [...]

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Ryan Spelts - Winner of Best Testimonial Contest!

Posted on 02. Jan, 2008 by admin.

RYAN’S AWARD WINNING TESTIMONIAL!  Voted by the members at the 1st Anniversary Party
“I started reading Dan Kennedy stuff about 2 years ago. I was intrigued and believed
things might work for some businesses and that others might have success with these
types of marketing concepts, but "MY BUSINESS WAS DIFFERENT." LOL!! I kept
reading though. I started to [...]

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Do You Know When A Customer Should Be Back?

Posted on 02. Jan, 2008 by admin.

Today I received an urgent call from Office Depot regarding my account.  It was our Account Manager who called - first time I had ever heard from him, and he wanted to know why I had not used our online account, or ordered since July, 2007. 
I am sure that he is calling as a [...]

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Why You Should Be Watching Kitchen Nightmares

Posted on 16. Nov, 2007 by admin.

Why You Should Be Watching Kitchen Nightmares!
 
Ok I confess… I am a television kid…I grew up watching endless television and I am officially addicted but even better now they have so many channels I can watch whatever I feel like.
 
I stumbled on the BBC channel and Kitchen Nightmares. It is a reality show staring Gordon Ramsay [...]

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Are you sleeping in your business?

Posted on 03. Oct, 2007 by admin.

Are you sleeping in your business?
Just back from a crazy week, first in Los Angeles, then to Washington D.C.  I was a guest speaker for the Los Angeles Black Business Expo. 
I was kinda disappointed because it was not the turn out they had hoped but it is always fun to be around business people [...]

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How Britney Spears and the Record Industry Can Learn From Dan Kennedy

Posted on 11. Sep, 2007 by admin.

Britney Spears certainly was a hot ghetto mess at the 2007 VMA’s but she is indicative of the recording industry – losing important fans.  Last month, the Bare Naked Ladies (Grammy Winners from 2001 – Multi-platinum sales) were interviewed by CNBC’s Business Nation because they left their label and opted to produce and distribute their [...]

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