by Scott Bourquin | Mar 21, 2020 | Newsletter
The days being able to fix your network is a valuable a skill as any. While manufacturers work to make the process easier and more reliable, computers are still an imperfect machine that connect to an imperfect system. Before Scott re-acquired parts of TeleData, he...
by Scott Bourquin | Feb 18, 2020 | The Small Business Minute
SSL, To HTTPS or to HTTP, that is the question. In todays world of phishing scams and internet thievery, it isn’t hard for someone in the cubicle right next to you to grab information as you are surfing a website that isn’t secure. SSL Short Course If you...
by Scott Bourquin | Oct 16, 2019 | Newsletter
It’s Official, the ArtSurf Project has launched! After years of creating videos for customers, The Bourquin Group has decided to move to the next level. The ArtSurf Production is documentary about how the world of surfing came to be as we know it. ArtSurf...
by Scott Bourquin | May 8, 2019 | The Small Business Minute
Marketing Budgets aren’t just for the Fortune 500 Every small business owner needs to know how to build a marketing budget. The irony is that no one really teaches it or explains it. The first thing for small business owners is to understand that marketing and...
by Scott Bourquin | Apr 22, 2019 | The Small Business Minute
Asking the Question, “What do you do?” might sound funny or obvious to most business owners. The truth is that it isn’t. Business is very simple. Provide a service and/or a product people need and do it at a price that is below the value they feel...
by Scott Bourquin | Mar 19, 2019 | Success On The Beach
Is there a Secret of Success or is success a series of choices that lead you where you want to go? To ask it another way, do you want the secret to success or the rules of success? Do you want the secret to your success? Is there a difference between the “rules of...
by Scott Bourquin | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog, The Small Business Minute
You Can Create A Marketing Automation Machine and Automate Sales! Creating a Marketing Machine and automating your sales is like building any other system. The core determines if the thing will make it. Imagine a new computer with a 1984 core processor....
by Scott Bourquin | Feb 20, 2019 | Success On The Beach
Great Products, Great Service and You Haven’t Achieved the Business Success You Want? There is something else. For many years I have been asked what is most important for business success. The same is true in just about any endeavor. The same question comes...
by Scott Bourquin | Feb 10, 2019 | The Small Business Minute
The iPad as a POS system has changed the game for small business. Long before Google existed we were installing computer networks and small change point of sale (aka POS) systems for retail stores and fast food restaurants. Back then a single micros cash register...
by Scott Bourquin | Jan 2, 2019 | The Small Business Minute
Scott discusses his personal goal setting system that he uses to make sure he gets his goals set each year. You might have read about his goal setting system in one of his books, or maybe a blog article, and here it is on video. Scott discusses exactly what he and his...
