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Human Networks

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:07:53 +0000

Our success here at Canvaswork is dependent on our human network. I just read a great blog post about this at:

http://www.brandcampu.com/2009/09/human-network-personal-brands-are-built-on-relationships/ We are in unique position because 90 % of our relationships were born out of our website and the contacts we created from it. Our network of professional contacts has been our goal and we’ve had to work really hard to maintain those contacts. In the parking and transportation industry people move around alot and we try our best to follow. While we may do buisness with Bob in Davenport Iowa he may well end up in Tennessee. But our relationship continues. It’s strange and a lot more difficult than exchanging business cards.

Small Business online

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:56:23 +0000

I just got done reading a Dave Fleet blog posting: http://davefleet.com/2008/08/why-your-small-business-needs-to-get-online/ and I can’t agree with him enough. But I’d also like to take it a step further. You really do need to understand web developemnt. We started with a web page at the very beginning. But we left it to other only to find ourselves slipping in search engine rankings over time. Now we blog and are constantly looking for links. We are building our business off line and on line. I don’t mean to say all of it has been easy. It hasn’t. My wife and I are still old enough to have taken typing in highschool. But life long learning and the web go hand in hand. Infact the web is great tool for learning through the lifespan.

Small business and

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:43:37 +0000

I just got reading a nice blog post about why small business fail.

http://www.p2w2.com/blog/index.php/top-5-reasons-why-small-businesses-fail/#trackbacks

I think most of us, when we start a business, imagine what we will look like a year or five years out. We start of too large and can’t handle the cold shower shock of cash in and cash out. We started our business on the front porch… moved to a basement… then rented a larger commercial space and now operate out of barn. We bought equipment as we went and grew with the business.

Small Business

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:25:48 +0000

I just came across a great list of possible small business start ups that require no up front money.

Small Business Lists – 100 No-Cost Start-ups (Part Two)

by Stefan Töpfer on Jul 16, 2008

http://www.sme-blog.com/small-business/business-start-up/small-business-lists-%e2%80%93-100-no-cost-start-ups-part-two

I like to tell people that when my wife and I started our business it was with a little wedding gift money and and the front porch of a duplex we rented in St. Paul. My mother in law has been making gift baskets for a business that’s going out of business. I’ve been encouraging her to build a website and start up on her own.

Seed Box Cover

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:29:10 +0000

CanvasWork can do seed box covers. Here is a photo sent back to us from Biddick Seed Co. They were kind enough to take this picture and send it to us. As you can see the seed box cover has welded seams and a tighter corners up top. We were able to use a small radius to get closer to a 90 degree corner. We’re really excited about this growing market.