Comments on: Lemonade Maker: Chris Hand, Personal Marketer http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/02/09/lemonade-makers-profiles-of-people-who-turn-economic-lemons-into-lemonade/ The upside of the downturn Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Gail Turner Brown http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/02/09/lemonade-makers-profiles-of-people-who-turn-economic-lemons-into-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Gail Turner Brown Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:36:09 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=186#comment-102 Is easier than you think to turn lemons into lemonade, It first starts with an attitude. Allow yourself time go grieve and get pissed, but not too long. If you ask yourself the right questions, you will begin to get the answers you are looking for. Instead of why me, try thinking "what an opportunity to do something I've always wanted to do". Or "how can I take this situation and turn it into something positive"? Everyone has something to offer that can be turned into a cash machine or small business. Dog or pet sitting, house cleaning svc, personal assistants, virtual assistants, lawn and landscaping, handyman svc., resume writing, etc. If you put your mind to it and your imagination, you can come up with a way to help others and generate revenue. Before you know it, you will have a great big pitcher of cool, tasty lemonade. Then open up a lemonade stand and sell the franchise. Gail Turner Brown Business Consultant gtbrown@myceo.com www.myceo.com Is easier than you think to turn lemons into lemonade, It first starts with an attitude. Allow yourself time go grieve and get pissed, but not too long. If you ask yourself the right questions, you will begin to get the answers you are looking for.

Instead of why me, try thinking “what an opportunity to do something I’ve always wanted to do”. Or “how can I take this situation and turn it into something positive”?

Everyone has something to offer that can be turned into a cash machine or small business.

Dog or pet sitting, house cleaning svc, personal assistants, virtual assistants, lawn and landscaping, handyman svc., resume writing, etc. If you put your mind to it and your imagination, you can come up with a way to help others and generate revenue. Before you know it, you will have a great big pitcher of cool, tasty lemonade.

Then open up a lemonade stand and sell the franchise.

Gail Turner Brown
Business Consultant
gtbrown@myceo.com
http://www.myceo.com

]]> By: Brendan J. Barry http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/02/09/lemonade-makers-profiles-of-people-who-turn-economic-lemons-into-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Brendan J. Barry Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:25:43 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=186#comment-88 The lemonade is a little sour but I'm working on the recipe. As an excavating contractor I watched the building trade die in MA in 2007. Watching friends fight over any crumb that fell from the home building table became too much to bare. I closed my sewer, water and grading biz and moved to NC Jan 1, 2008 at the suggestion from family. In the beginning I was optomistic to see my trade still thriving. Then I was laid off 1 day before my benefits kicked in. I found another job pretty quick and that Co picked up and moved to LA...laid off again. At that point I decided to start something new. NC was in serious drought and people were purchasing rain barrels to provide waqter for flowers, shrubs and vegetables that would otherwise shrivel up and die. But there was nobody installing these barrels for little old ladies. I took an on-line course to learn about building a website and submit press releases. Although I now feel a professional web designer is needed I was pleased with the end result and traffic began to flow. My company expanded to installing up to 10,000 gal rainwater collection systems as a result of the internet marketing along with a grass roots approach at home and garden shows and the local flea market. The holidays brought a slowdown but we are very hopeful the stimulus pkg will bring funding and tax credits in 2009. I believe it will be American inginuity that brings us out of our current situation. If you see a need ... fill it. The lemonade is a little sour but I’m working on the recipe. As an excavating contractor I watched the building trade die in MA in 2007. Watching friends fight over any crumb that fell from the home building table became too much to bare. I closed my sewer, water and grading biz and moved to NC Jan 1, 2008 at the suggestion from family. In the beginning I was optomistic to see my trade still thriving. Then I was laid off 1 day before my benefits kicked in. I found another job pretty quick and that Co picked up and moved to LA…laid off again. At that point I decided to start something new. NC was in serious drought and people were purchasing rain barrels to provide waqter for flowers, shrubs and vegetables that would otherwise shrivel up and die. But there was nobody installing these barrels for little old ladies. I took an on-line course to learn about building a website and submit press releases. Although I now feel a professional web designer is needed I was pleased with the end result and traffic began to flow. My company expanded to installing up to 10,000 gal rainwater collection systems as a result of the internet marketing along with a grass roots approach at home and garden shows and the local flea market. The holidays brought a slowdown but we are very hopeful the stimulus pkg will bring funding and tax credits in 2009. I believe it will be American inginuity that brings us out of our current situation. If you see a need … fill it.

]]> By: brand4profit http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/02/09/lemonade-makers-profiles-of-people-who-turn-economic-lemons-into-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-78 brand4profit Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:10:23 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=186#comment-78 Creating brands worth evangelizing about is often misunderstood. The connection between the core values - the soul of the company and the soul of the customer - is why customers evangelize. They have found a temple of core value at which to worship. It’s mythic. It’s epic. The brand becomes icon because it connects to the subconscious yearnings of the customer, imprinting on the brain. The pictured emotional experience becomes a conduit through which the customer can again be touched by those core values. Those pictures and emotions then become language in the brain of the customer. And it’s the language of evangelism. Creating brands worth evangelizing about is often misunderstood. The connection between the core values – the soul of the company and the soul of the customer – is why customers evangelize. They have found a temple of core value at which to worship. It’s mythic. It’s epic. The brand becomes icon because it connects to the subconscious yearnings of the customer, imprinting on the brain. The pictured emotional experience becomes a conduit through which the customer can again be touched by those core values.

Those pictures and emotions then become language in the brain of the customer. And it’s the language of evangelism.

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