by Scott Bourquin | Jul 5, 2020 | Newsletter
The Business Challenge of Covid-19 affects everyone, owner and employee alike. Many American business models are built on razor thin margins and low costs. That model was destroyed by Covid-19. Well sort of. For a big company like Wal-Mart, the model is exactly the...
by Scott Bourquin | Jun 18, 2020 | Newsletter
A few bad backlinks can hurt your organic search results and you may not know it. Yesterday I was having a conversation with a competitor. Due to a rules change in California and the Covid mess our costs went up and so I had to make the decision to raise prices. Our...
by Scott Bourquin | Jun 9, 2020 | Success On The Beach
For many years I have heard people say “Lead, Follow or Get Out of The Way!”. Running a business requires leadership. If you don’t want to “lead” your business, hire someone that does and follow them. In either case get out of the way of...
by Scott Bourquin | Mar 23, 2020 | Newsletter
Working from home for the first time? As a couple? Need some tips? Ever since reading the first Rich Dad, Poor Dad book by Robert Kyosaki, Scott has been fascinated by the idea of working from home. The hardest part when you are the boss is getting people used to the...
by Scott Bourquin | Mar 21, 2020 | Success On The Beach
Scott is Quarantined so he is hosting a QuarantStream daily at 12:00pm until he can run outside again. He calls being Quarantined and hosting a live stream Quarantstreaming. This is filmed live at the CoolToys Studio and is just Scott and a Camera. No editors, and you...
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...
