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Where are you, Christmas?

December 20, 2011

Watching the movie “How the Grinch stole Christmas”, I was reminded of how many Christmases past could be summed up in the lyrics of the song sung by Faith Hill: “Where are you Christmas, why can’t I find you?” With all the issues and challenges we face in our fast-paced lives, due in varying degrees [...]

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Gift Wrap Like a Professional with Arona Khan

December 16, 2011

One of the first things I received when I began my current job here at Nashville Wraps was an Arona Khan DVD on wrapping tricks. According to Harpers & Queen (Harper’s Bazaar UK), Arona was the first gift wrapping consultant. I’ve been a fan of hers ever since. Now that the biggest gift-wrapping season of [...]

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Christmas – Made in America

December 8, 2011

It has been said that if our $465 billion dollar holiday spending spree was spent on goods made in the USA, it would create 4.6 million jobs or about 1 job per each $100,000 of sales. As of last week (December 2nd, 2011) the number of unemployed Americas (being counted) was 13.3 million or 8.6%. [...]

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Timber Green Woods Makes Sustainable Products a Work of Art

November 25, 2011

Timber Green Woods in Spring Green, Wisconsin started their little wood-working shop three years ago. With just a laser cutter, they began cutting and engraving wooden snowflake ornaments out of wood scraps left over from their sustainable wood flooring business. Eventually, Matt Van Susteren and his wife Amie ventured into the online world of Etsy [...]

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Norton’s USA – A Uniquely American General Store

November 18, 2011

In support of the Small Business Saturday “Shop Small” campaign on November 26th, we have asked one of our great customers, Norton’s USA, to tell their story. I was asked to write for the Nashville Wraps blog because I buy from this great company. I have a retail store that sells only American-made products – [...]

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A Yuan for American Jobs

October 21, 2011

Regardless of our politics, we all have a yen for more American jobs (I couldn’t resist the pun). That is really what the bi-partisan China Currency Bill could help accomplish. For those of you who have been reading my posts you know that they promote more American products and manufacturing, but we have lots of [...]

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Why American Made is Hard to Find

September 23, 2011

Currently, the president of the United States is on a quest to seek out solutions for American jobs. While I admit I have not personally reviewed the plan, I can speak to what most small and medium business owners believe to be a solid plan for job restoration in the USA. It’s simple, right? Just [...]

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Avoid a Small Business Death Wish

August 26, 2011

Just like you, I turned on the news today, and the stock market was taking another tumble. The correspondents struggled to explain it, but their last comment was, “It was more politics than economics”. I think back to the Wizard of Oz: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. It’s still good advice [...]

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Relaxed Customers Spend More Money

August 12, 2011

The latest study by the Journal of Marketing Research shows the more relaxed you are when you enter a store, the more money you’ll spend. Relaxed customers were found to be willing to pay about 15% more for a variety of goods and services than less-relaxed people. How can you use this research to help [...]

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