How do you handle or overcome challenges? Homeschooling has begun. I ensure you my children are not the only ones learning today ,🤣. I think the possibility for new learning mediums, programs, & opportunities for the future are HUGE! We have moved Barten Media to 💯% remote work platforms utilizing GSuite, Zoom, Slack, & Trello…
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Coronavirus Day Three 😷
Let’s talk Coronavirus Innovation 💡. This period of unknown 👽 is a great chance to rethink how and why we do things the way we do. What opportunities do you see coming out of this pandemic? Here on our end we are preparing to close the offices 🏢 & facilities 🏤 where applicable. Setting up…
Coronavirus Day Two 😷
Teaching 👨🏫 my children the value of work ethic is, I think, arguably one of my most important jobs as a Dad 👨👧👦. My eldest and I spent an hour cleaning up the remaining leafs and scrubbing down the patio yesterday in preparation of nicer weather. She did a great job 💯. As she approaches…
Coronavirus Day One 😷
What are your tactics to market your way through the Coronavirus 😷? While you’re stuck at home let’s focus on building on your marketing campaign and helping you get back to serving customers as soon as possible ✔️. Today my children’s school 🏫🎒 announced a closing for 2 weeks. I’ll be working from home, and…
Social Media Strategy for Small Business
Social Media use and Social Media Marketing (SMM) for businesses can be difficult to manage and produce effectively. This situation is easily compounded for small businesses. It is our opinion, here at BartenMEDIA, that there are three (3) main categories of social media participants: individuals/personal brands, small businesses, and large businesses/corporations. Small business social media…
Health, Wellness, and the Collection of Clutter
It’s a bad joke. You know what they say about the garbage business? It’s always picking up! For most people the accumulation of “stuff” that clutters a home or living space is a byproduct of a busy lifestyle and a barrage of commitments for family, friends and colleagues. Typically this accumulation results in items being…
Thought Leadership
Leadership is complicated. It can be rewarding or it can be thankless. It can be the job everybody wants or the job nobody wants. It can lead to fame and fortune, to ruin and despair. Leadership can do all of these, but most often it falls somewhere in the middle. Leadership is often performed in…
Compassionately Helping Seniors with Clutter
In the junk & debris removal business we deal with an array of senior citizens, often in different stages of their lives. Some are simply downsizing to a new, more accessible home, some to assisted living and others perhaps utilizing reverse mortgages due to financial distress from a lack of funds due to a stagnant fixed income.
Creating Social Media for Small Business
First and foremost you have to commit to posting on a regular schedule and when we say commit, we don’t mean for a few days or weeks, but months and years. It is not going to be easy. Make no mistake about it, content creation is real work.
Innovation within the Arena
I think the word innovate produces a gag-reflex and anxiety for many people. Often, the word innovate has a negative connotation attached to it. An idea that a person has to be almost inventive or possess a creative genome which is simply not found in all people. I promise this is not the case.
Marketing with a Purpose
What is the purpose of marketing? To sell more stuff, right? Wrong. Perhaps during the post World War II era this idea was true. When the American economy was leading the charge forward in consumerism, and the vacuum cleaner, television rat races that ensued in many households across the country led the day, you could work off the simple premise of, ‘sell more stuff’. However, this is not true anymore.
Ice Hockey Tournaments- Maximizing Revenue
One of the beautiful things about Ice Hockey Tournaments is ancillary income. With a little bit of ingenuity and business partnership you can add dollars each day to your bottom line. Examples of this can include rebates from local hotels, barter or trade with local eateries and even free marketing from your local chamber of commerce depending on the size of the economy in your market.