Step Away From the Computer

This blog focuses on small business, quality, and social media.  We try to provide an equal balance of all three.  But as I look at the various blogs, podcasts, twitter streams, and other social media that I follow I’m noticing that there’s way too much coverage of social media.  I mean, how many posts about [...]

Manny’s Christmas

Ten years ago, Kyle Crane wrote a little book called “Manny’s Christmas.”  Like a lot of little books, some copies were sold, some weren’t.  Recently Kyle’s son Benton came across the remaining supply of his dad’s book and decided to put up a web site and surprise his dad with some enexpected sales.
I’ve ordered the [...]

Episode 13–Back from Ireland

Sun, 2 November 2008
Episode 13
Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses. This is Episode 14.  This episode’s contents:
00:00  An audio clip from the hilarious movie classic, “Waking Ned Devine.”
01:00  Some thoughts from our trip to Ireland.
01:30  There are similarities between Irish [...]

Episode 9, Our First Remote

Episode 9 Our First Remote
Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses.  This is Episode 9.There’s no “I” in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment [...]

Episode 6

Episode 6
Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses.  This is Episode 5.
There’s no “I” in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment to mike@miningthestore.com.  [...]

Episode 1

Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses.  This is Episode 1, our first official program.
There’s no “I” in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your comment [...]