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Holiday Season Panic – Can AI Help?

by | November 1, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

You don’t need a massive corporate marketing team or a complex tech budget to leverage AI. Used right, AI acts as an invisible, highly efficient co-pilot that can handle the repetitive grunt work—leaving you free to focus on what actually matters: your clients, your products, and a little bit of seasonal downtime for yourself.

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Curating the Club Cellar: Navigating Markups, State Law, and the Distributor “Coaching” Trap

by | October 24, 2026 | The Small Business Minute | 0 Comments

One of my favorite rules is that if it is at Costco or the local market, get it off your list.  That only encourages price shopping and increases corkage while reducing sales.

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Powering Modern Web Development: 118West Partners with Elegant Themes

by | October 23, 2026 | Success On The Beach | 0 Comments

At 118West, our mission is to build robust, scalable, high-converting digital foundations for our clients. Today, we are thrilled to make an official milestone announcement: 118West is officially an Elegant Themes Partner, recommending and supporting Divi as our...

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Facebook Marketing for Small Business

Aug 23, 2012 |

Lately I hear more and more people, business owners to be exact, expressing frustration with Social Marketing. They don't know how to plan for it, how to use it and for the most part it doesn't appear that anyone does. I just read an article in a major business...

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Are Those $150 SEO From India Messages Real?

Aug 12, 2012 | ,

The $150 SEO From India Bait and Switch Email Every day clients forward to us messages from India or the Phillipines or some where else asking us if those bargain SEO services work. Maybe you have received an email that looks like this too: ____________ SEO), Link...

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