tough times

I googled “time of political unknowns” this morning, and I found all sorts of articles written by very sophisticated professional marketers who were expounding on the business wisdom of not cutting marketing dollars in a recession. On the other side the small business owners were doubting the integrity of these opinions from people also hunting new business in tough times. Amid all of the pontificating by experts and the predictable backlash from the skeptics, I was struck by this simple statement from a blogger: “Dumb business owners think they are in the business of their product of service. Smart business [...]