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- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Robbie and Tracy Shoults of Bear Creek Smokehouse
Meet Bear Creek Smokehouse co-owners Robbie and Tracy Shoults and learn how the Marshall-area family business has grown since 1943.
- 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, the Longview and Gilmer entrepreneurs recognized by the SBA in 2026. See their story, services, and practical small-business lessons.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Daren Horton and Gecko Pest Control
Meet Gecko Pest Control owner Daren Horton and learn about the Marshall company's services, history, community work, licensing record, and customer checklist.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Connor Walters and Silver Grizzly Espresso
Meet Silver Grizzly Espresso co-founder Connor Walters and learn how the Longview coffee shop built craft, community, and a downtown gathering place.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Shawn Ingram and Custom Graphics TX
Meet Shawn Ingram of Custom Graphics TX, a Longview branding shop combining in-house production, local business connections and practical skills access.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Laura Nevils and Books & Barrels
Meet Books & Barrels owner Laura Nevils and learn how the downtown Longview bookstore supports readers, local authors, events, and community.
- ArticleBusiness
36 Robocalls Hit My Business Line In 72 Hours
A rotating number robocall campaign hit my business line 36 times in three days and my own AI receptionist answered it. Here is the record and the five minute fix any small business can copy.
- ArticleEast Texas
Should Longview Trade Some Left Turns for a Safer Fourth Street?
Longview is studying Fourth Street traffic and safety. Should the city limit some left turns and driveways, or would that hurt local business access?
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Require the Real Price Everywhere It Is Advertised?
Federal rules require upfront prices for tickets and short-term lodging. Should Texas extend all-in pricing to more ads, or leave fees to markets?
- ArticleRebuild
An Angel Tree for Careers: A Local Business Can Cover Somebody's Whole Seat
A local business can cover a dental assistant student's whole $3,000 seat. Why Premier Dental Academy of Longview's Sponsor-a-Student program earned my trust.
- 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.
- ArticleRebuild
I Thought I Was Selling Merchandise
Wholesale Universe moved pallets. The pallets were never the business. On misidentifying your own product, and pricing the judgment instead of the output.
- 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.
- ArticleAI & Technology
ChatGPT Voice Now Controls Work and Codex on Desktop: Availability, Credits and Risks
ChatGPT Voice can now steer Work and Codex on desktop. See current availability, the separate voice and task meters, risks and one safe test.
- 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.
- ArticleCommentary
AJ Brown Just Got Traded and Half the NFL Is in Shock — Here's the Real Lesson
When a star receiver forces his way to the Patriots, his old teammates say 'it's a business.' They're right. And that cuts both ways.
- 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.
- 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.
- ArticleBusiness, Systems & Technology
The First FedEx Night Moved 186 Packages Through One Hub
FedEx began with 14 aircraft, 389 workers, and only 186 packages. Its hub system showed why connected operations can matter more than isolated effort.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
A Website Change Is Not Finished Until You Can Undo It
A website change is not finished until someone can undo it. Use this five-line rollback note before the next release breaks forms, prices, or pages.
- ArticleRebuild
I Never Owned the Customer List
I sold a lot of product through Wholesale Universe and never held a single buyer email. You get the sale, the marketplace gets the customer.
- ArticleRebuild
The business that needed me in the room
Wholesale Universe stopped when I stopped. That is not bad luck, it is a design flaw. Why every system I build now runs in a room I am not standing in.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Every Automation Needs a Failure Receipt
A workflow is not trustworthy because it ran once. Build four visible receipts so automation failures create an owner, a record, and a next move.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Box That Changed the World Was Not the Clever Part
The 1956 Ideal-X voyage helped launch container shipping. Its lasting business lesson is that standards and handoffs can matter more than a flashy invention.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Every Lost Lead Needs a Reason Code
A closed lead without a clear outcome teaches your business nothing. Build a small reason-code system that turns missed opportunities into repairs.
- 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, Systems & Design
Harry Beck Made London Legible by Leaving Most of London Out
Harry Beck made London’s Underground usable by replacing geographic detail with a clear network diagram. The lesson still applies to business systems.
- ArticleRebuild
The Leftovers Are the Business
Wholesale Universe runs live selling shows six days a week off inventory that did not move. The leftover is not the embarrassing part of a business. Often it is the 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.
- ArticleRebuild
Everything Fell Apart. One Thing Never Stopped Running. It Turns Eleven This Month.
Everything in my life fell apart at least once. One thing never stopped running. In 2015 I started a business called Wholesale Universe. Not a headline. Not a cause. A business. Sourcing, systems, moving product, turning a pile of moving pa
- ArticleBehind the scenes
A Good Intake Form Asks What Must Stay Private
A lead form should capture privacy boundaries before the story spreads. Use this practical intake audit to protect trust and route the next step correctly.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
A Thank-You Page Should Tell the Lead What Happens Next
Submitted is a system status, not a customer promise. Build a thank-you page that creates clarity, evidence, and a clean next step for every lead.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Every New Lead Needs One Named Owner
Most leads are lost after the form, not on it. Use this five-handoff audit to assign one owner, one deadline, and one visible next move for every inquiry.
- ArticleThe Work
A Website Builder Gives You Stage Two of Eight
The eight stages every company runs, where owners actually break, and a four minute audit you can do on paper today.
- ArticleThe Work
The Three Questions Every Customer Asks Before They Call
What you do, what it costs, what your finished work looks like. Answer all three on the page or lose the job.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
What leading Marines taught me about running a business
I led 25 to 35 Marines in Okinawa and never saw combat. Five habits carried into business, plus the seven step Monday brief template you can copy today.
- 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.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
If It Only Works When You Do It, You Built a Job
Ryan Nichols on the two-week test for any business: trigger, steps, check. Write the system on an index card before you spend a dollar on software.
- ArticleRebuild
Squaring It Away Before a Week I Cannot Reschedule
You stage before the storm. Getting the businesses squared away ahead of a week I do not get to move, and why being present is an output of a system, not a decision you make in the moment.
- 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.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Write the number once
A fact that lives in two places on your website is a fact you will eventually get wrong in one of them. How to single-source every number your business publishes.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Start Button Made a Complicated Machine Feel Possible
Windows 95 launched on August 24, 1995. Its Start button showed that powerful systems become useful when ordinary people can clearly see where to begin.
- ArticleThe Work
The Line Almost Nobody Publishes
Don and Patti Nichols publish every line of a Belize medical mission budget, including the freight bill that is the biggest number on the page. Why the ugly line makes the rest believable.
- ArticleThe Work
Why Not Just Use Wix? Here Is the Honest Answer.
Sometimes you should. But a builder sells you one stage of eight, and then you buy the other seven separately, forever.
- ArticleThe Work
If I Disappeared Tomorrow, Would Your Business Still Run?
Your code, your data, your accounts. The five question ownership audit, and why builders keep the keys.
- ArticleRebuild
The first hundred dollars
The first hundred dollars Wholesale Universe made taught me more than any number after it. Here is the exact seven step playbook to earn yours this month.
- 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.
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All 12Richard Avirett Opens 1442 Cocktails and Café
…atements about the transition, assistance received, and the business’s planned offerings. It is preserved as a post-pardon publi…
Richard Avirett Discusses Post-Pardon Business Rebuilding
…25 local profile identifies Avirett as a Marine veteran and business owner and quotes him about transforming his Clarkesville ve…
DC DOC Level 2 IGP Appeal to Deputy Director (4/20/24) - Ryan Nichols
…Appeal (Step 3) written 3/26/24 and not answered within 15 business days. Documents that the IGP process at DC DOC is illusory…