Rain or Snow
If you could choose – which would it be? Rain or snow for … the travel home after the holidays? the last bit of holiday weekend shopping and dining? the time when you hope your business brings in as much Read More …
Tag: gift giving
It’s Delivered
When you get that notification that it’s delivered, the joy is real. The gift is in hand, whether you sent it to them directly or to you for wrapping and to be shared later. It is literally the season for Read More …
Keep It Coming
All the good things, all the gratitude and all the positive holiday spirit – keep it coming. All year long would be ideal. The rest of the year is a minimum… One month is just too short. Definitely not enough Read More …
The Miracle of Present Delivery
These days, we all depend on the miracle of present delivery and more than just Amazon can make this happen; but what if Amazon could wrap and deliver the presents like this to the front door. Well, then. That would Read More …
Not So Small
From the littlest to the not so small towns across America, there is a very big day ahead. This weekend, we celebrate Small Business Saturday and let me tell you, it is big and getting bigger. In the last 8 Read More …
Christmas in July
We used to order everything for Christmas in July – at the very latest – to be ready for the retail season. That doesn’t mean, however, that people around the country (the world?) should buy everything they need for the Read More …
Surprise Me
Whatever you do… surprise me. I don’t like to read the end of the book, until I am at the end of the book. If I know how the movie ends, I probably don’t want to watch it. If I Read More …
Be Tempted
It is hard not to be tempted to do things that you don’t think you should do. The e-mail this weekend (and for the last few years around this time of year) promotes any and everything that you may or Read More …
Small is Big
If you think that small is big, you might be thinking of small businesses. You would be right along with the owners of those businesses, who don’t think it is in any way small, let alone insignificant or immeasurable. Small Read More …
Their Style, Not Yours
Gift giving is really, really easy when you know the person well. Giving something that will match their style, not yours is the problem when you don’t know them at all. Some of the more structured parties have registries, from Read More …