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The Serious Business of Shopping Small
We all know the benefits of shopping small – it supports members of our own community, puts money directly into the local economy, and is the best way to discover unique, not-found-elsewhere gifts. Over the past two years, we have also learned both how essential these businesses are to our communities, and how critical it [&he[...]
How To Deliver a Personalized Subscription Experience
According to a recent Brightbank survey, “98% of consumers subscribe to a streaming service.” With so many people taking advantage of subscriptions, more and more brands are emerging with their version of this service, vying for the attention of millions of customers by providing an exceptional customer subscription experien[...]
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How Event Planners Nail the Hotel “Room Drop” Welcome Gift
Congratulations, you’re the event planner for an upcoming conference! Your task? Assemble an out-of-this-world gift box (known as a “room drop”) that provides a warm welcome to your guests and sets the tone for a great conference. For most conference event planners these days, room drops have become the standard and it’s[...]
5 Tips for Overcoming Customer Service Obstacles as a Small Business
If people love small businesses for one thing, it’s their customer service. Small companies tend to take customer issues to heart and do everything they can to resolve them. That said, small businesses face quite a few challenges to overcoming customer service obstacles, whether due to a lack of financial resources, employees,[...]
Colorado Business Owner Shares the Importance of Shopping Locally This Holiday Season
The holiday season goes hand-in-hand with exchanging gifts with loved ones. It’s also an essential time of year for keeping small businesses, like mine, afloat. It’s not only meaningful, but it’s advantageous to support, spotlight, and cherish all small businesses here in Colorado and everywhere because they have great ser[...]
How to Prepare Your Finances for the Holiday Season
The year’s closing months are an ideal time to be proactive about your finances and set yourself up well for the holiday season and the new year ahead. For many, financial concerns often rise with expectations to spend on gifts and entertaining family and friends this time of year, and this pressure may feel amplified [&he[...]
On The First Day Of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me: A 10.5% Price Hike (PNC CPI)
For the 39th year, PNC calculated the cost of Christmas. With the year-over-year increase in 2022 being the third highest on record, inflation for services far outstripped goods in this year’s PNC Christmas Price Index® (PNC CPI) — a light-hearted take on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index — whic[...]
Domestic Tranquility — The Importance of Government Initiatives for American Made Products
Two years ago, when gasoline prices were in the $2.20 range, I thought how fortunate I was, not to mention everyone else, that a staple of modern life wasn’t just affordable, but a decent bargain. Then, of course, came the climb, when gasoline prices in Colorado and other locales shot up above $5 a gallon, […]
Made in Colorado: Fall 2022
Farm to Summit — Dehydrated Meals Durango Louise Barden saw a void in backcountry cuisine while working as a research ecologist in the Yellowstone backcountry. “These grown men were just complaining about food and how they hated their meals,” Louise says. She subsequently teamed with her culinary-focused wife, Jane, to l[...]
Half Full or Half Empty? Denver Business Owners Split on Optimism
With concerns around inflation and the beginning stages of a recession, a new survey of small and mid-sized business owners conducted by PNC reveals about half are optimistic about the economy or near-term future of their business. With such an even split, it’s hard not to think of the adage, is that glass half full […]
Plant-based Protein is Taking Root in Colorado’s Food Economy
When Gov. Jared Polis signed a declaration proclaiming March 20th as “MeatOut Day” in Colorado in 2021, the backlash was furious and often hyperbolic. Cattlemen decried the call for a meat-free day as near-blasphemy, as Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts retaliated with a competing “Meat on the Menu Day.” Republican S[...]
Top Company 2022: Consumer Business
The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID rest[...]
