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48 results in articles and videos for “Small Business Marketing”
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Your Business Videos Need Help. Let Me Come Film You.
If your videos don't look like mine, you need help. I come to your business, film you, your team and your products, and make video that makes money.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: How Megan and James Heath Grew Pack N Mail
Meet Pack N Mail owners Megan and James Heath, Longview and Gilmer entrepreneurs named the SBA's 2026 Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Their story and lessons.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Set Its Own Minimum Wage Above $7.25?
Texas still uses the $7.25 federal minimum wage. Here are the strongest arguments for a higher state floor and for letting local labor markets set pay.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Make the Video. What's Holding You Back?
What story are you telling yourself about why you can't? Phone out, hit record, talk. 10,000 videos in, I still mess up. (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
If Your Business Isn't Blowing Up, Call Me
Ryan Nichols of The LeadFlow Pro offers free 30-minute consultations and a free commercial shoot offer for Longview area businesses.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
If They Hang Up, You're Boring Them
If people hang up on you, you are boring them. On the phone, on ads, on Facebook. Here is the hard truth, and how I help business owners make it simple.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Don't Copy Your Competitor's Offer. Be Different.
Copying a competitor's offer fails because your area is not their area. One little tweak got three business owners asking us to come out. (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
This Might Be Your Shot
This is my AI working. It scares me sometimes. Once you scroll, you lose me in the feed. I do this every day. Let me help you do the same. (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Kodak Invented the Digital Camera. Then It Protected the Past.
Kodak built the first self-contained digital camera in 1975. Its story shows why seeing the future is easier than building a business willing to enter it.
- ArticleThe Work
The $197 Product That Tells You Not to Buy Software
I sell business systems, and my $197 follow-up product says you need no software. Leads are not lost because they were bad. They are lost to the silence after.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
I Have a Quarter Million Leads and Cannot Afford to Email Them
A 200,000 address list, $500 to $1,000 a month to send, and a five year old consent problem. The case for and against hitting send, with CAN-SPAM facts.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Car Dealers: Ready to Blow Up Online?
Headed to Daingerfield to meet a dealership owner ready to blow up online. More sales, more eyes, a bigger leads list. Call or text (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
How Fast Do You Answer a Lead?
Facebook, text, call, email, web form. How long before you reach back out? It should be under 60 seconds. Here is why, and how I build it. (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Daren Horton and Gecko Pest Control
Ryan Nichols meets Gecko Pest Control owner Daren Horton in Marshall, covering the company's services, history, community work, and a checklist for customers.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Have You Ever Run a Real Facebook Ad?
Not a boosted post. A full-blown Facebook ad. Do you know your cost of acquisition, and how it differs from cost per lead? Call or text (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Label the Fake Stuff Fake
Invented testimonials and stock logos read as fake because they are never specific. Two fixes: label the sample, and make one real thing real.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
My Cost Per Lead Tripled Inside a Fifty Mile Circle
A client lead cost went from $15 to $46 with no change to the ad, page, or offer. The audience ran out. Real numbers, the fix, and when the fix is wrong.
- ArticleThe Work
I Was Wrong About Where My Money Comes From
Five sales in a row said one channel made all my money. The sixth proved me wrong. What I found when I pulled my own attribution data again.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Plenty of Money in the Bank. My Card Still Got Declined.
My ad charges got flagged as fraud even after I said it was me. The block sits above my local branch. Has this happened to you?
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Shawn Ingram and Custom Graphics TX
Ryan Nichols meets Shawn Ingram of Custom Graphics TX in Longview, a branding shop offering in-house production, local connections and practical skills access.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Whoever Owns the Domain Owns the Business
Your domain is the address every link, card and search result points at. Three ways business owners lose it, and how to check yours in about four minutes.
- ArticleRebuild
Free Beans and Chili Every Day Since 1983
The Butcher Shop in Longview has been family owned since 1983 and gives beans and chili away every day. That is hospitality, not marketing. Here is the test.
- ArticleRebuild
They Stopped Sending the Work Out and Built the Shop
Family owned in Marshall since 2002, they brought fabrication and powder coating in house in 2013. Five questions to run before you make the same call.
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Require the Real Price Everywhere It Is Advertised?
Federal rules require upfront, all-in pricing for tickets and lodging. Ryan Nichols asks if Texas should extend that rule to other advertised prices.
- ArticleAI & Technology
ChatGPT Work Changes the AI Job: From Answering Questions to Finishing Work
ChatGPT Work explained: current availability, GPT-5.6 models, pricing, scheduled tasks, Sites, practical opportunities, risks, limits, and one test to try.
- ArticlePolitics
Trump’s New Defense Supply-Chain Order: What Changes, What It Targets, and What Is Still Unknown
What Trump’s July 20, 2026 defense supply-chain executive order requires, its deadlines, covered critical materials, foreign-supplier rules, and what remains unknown.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
AI Arbitrage Is Not a Dirty Word. Here Is What You Are Actually Paying For.
A $500 website costs almost nothing to build now. So what is the client paying for? Both sides of the argument and the one question to ask any builder in 2026.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Barcode Worked Because Everybody Agreed to Read the Same Lines
The UPC barcode changed retail because competing companies adopted one shared product standard. Its history offers a practical lesson for connected businesses.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Pay Less, Get Less: What a Price Drop Taught Me
We dropped a $4,800 course to $1,997 and sales got harder. Ryan Nichols on price discovery and why perception is reality in business.
- ArticleRebuild
The Bakery That Published What It Cannot Guarantee
Taste and Sea Bakery in Longview uses 100% gluten free ingredients, then tells customers its kitchen is not a gluten free facility. Why that warning works.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Broken Laser Pointer That Proved the Market Was There
In September 1995, the first item sold on the site that became eBay was a broken laser pointer. The unlikely sale proved a marketplace could exist.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Let Them Try It Before You Ask for Anything
Most service sites go straight from a claim to a form. Build the missing fourth state: a live demo that produces a real result and costs the visitor nothing, not even their data.
- ArticleRebuild
Most of Building SellerProof Has Been Saying No
The most important file in this build is the list of things the software will never do. Why scope discipline beats feature count, and how to write your own not-doing list.
- ArticleRebuild
The Plumber Who Tells You to Go Get Other Estimates
Streety Plumbing prints Master Plumber License M-38762 on its home page, then tells you to get multiple estimates. Here is the seven question hire check.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Build the boring system first
Intake, follow-up, records, backups. The unglamorous plumbing I build before anything pretty, with the simplest free version of each written out for you.
- ArticleThe Work
Three Dollars Buys Three Pages Of A Transcript
Nobody has a feeling about three dollars. Everybody has a feeling about three pages of a transcript. Pricing in units of work, plus four things I got wrong.
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Stop Employers From Asking What You Made Before?
Should Texas employers be barred from asking job applicants about past pay? Here are the strongest arguments for disclosure limits and employer choice.
- ArticleTexas & Community
Should Texas Make It Easier to Repair the Devices You Own?
Texas has enacted a right-to-repair law for many consumer devices. Here is what it covers, what it excludes, and the strongest case on each side.
- ArticleThe Work
I Built the Scheduler Instead of Renting One
I have 837 posts queued to publish themselves with no API keys, no subscription, and nobody else holding the switch. Here is how it works, and the bug I found this morning that every business has a version of.
- ArticleThe Work
Twenty Seven Photos, and Two Thirds of Them Are Concrete
A four page washing site in Hallsville built the page most service businesses skip. I counted every job on it, and the gallery says something the homepage does not.
- ArticleRebuild
The First Electronic Television Image Was One Straight Line
On September 7, 1927, Philo Farnsworth transmitted a simple line with an all-electronic television system. The tiny proof still shapes modern media.
- ArticleThe Work
A Handful of Messages a Year
The most honest signup form I have built promises two texts a trip. Name the trigger, name the ceiling, then be boring about keeping it. The follow up lesson in one sentence.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Robbie and Tracy Shoults of Bear Creek Smokehouse
Ryan Nichols meets Bear Creek Smokehouse co-owners Robbie and Tracy Shoults and tells how the Marshall, Texas barbecue business has grown since 1943.
- ArticleRebuild
Three Characters Taught the Internet to Smile
On September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman proposed :-) as a joke marker. The tiny fix solved a human problem that better networks could not solve alone.
- ArticleHistory, Business & Technology
The First Solar Car Was 15 Inches Long
In 1955, William Cobb demonstrated a 15-inch solar car. The Sunmobile was too small to drive, but big enough to prove an idea could move forward.
- ArticleRebuild
The Grocery Store That Let Shoppers Serve Themselves
Piggly Wiggly changed grocery shopping in 1916 by letting customers serve themselves. The deeper business lesson is about redesigning the whole path.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Publish Job and Wage Results for Every Workforce Grant?
Texas funds customized workforce training for private employers. Should every grant publish completion, placement, retention, and wage results for taxpayers?
- ArticleRebuild
I Put Demo Build in My Own Footer
Most founders would delete that line. Why Gideon Commerce labels its own unfinished parts, publishes every price, and tells you to go check its numbers.
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