by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
How often do you make impactful changes to your website? If you’re like most businesses, your website gets updated once every couple of years—maybe. That used to be the norm – build it, set it, and forget it. The purpose of a website was to be a repository of...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Wouldn’t it be great if business growth was really like those picturesque charts in business stock images of happy suited people celebrating a fat green line going straight up to the right? Those charts have little to do with the reality of actual business...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of my earliest memories of the power of practice, repetition, and reinforcement was learning to tie my shoes. My favorite Aunt was babysitting me and helping me learn and practice my new skill. She had me tie all the shoes in our family of 5’s shoe closet several...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
There is a predictable pattern to the evolution of a small business’ sales progress—starting with those scrappy bootstrapping days of a business starting up—to achieving growth and success. Along the way you realize that scaling means producing consistent sales...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the wonderful world of ai, where technology meets creativity, and the result is pure magic! If you’re a business owner or marketer, you’ve likely heard of the StoryBrand framework—a powerful method for creating compelling narratives that...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I first learned how to make spaghetti I was a college student and my kitchen skills were limited. A dorm-mate told me, “throw it at the wall. If it sticks, it’s done.” While that may be true, it takes a lot of trial and error, and noodles, to get to just right....
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
A podcast is like garlic: flavorful, savory, and adds depth to anything you create. I put garlic in everything, and, as you’ve probably already noticed– podcasts are in everything too. No matter the industry, pushing the record button and sharing your expertise...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Got a little downtime in the next few weeks? It could be the perfect time to do some deep thinking about your business—away from the day to day grind of people, customers, orders, and operations—time to think and work ON the business for a change. Team Sauce is doing...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Want a knockout customer experience? You can’t neglect your employees’ experience. Seems counterintuitive, right? But happy employees mean happy customers. When your teams feel valued in their workplace, they are more likely to: Give top-notch service,...
by Kim Garmon Hummel | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
When brand awareness (aka demand generation) is low, most businesses turn to social media channels as their tool of choice. And let’s be real here, it’s a smart move. Social media channels help you reach your audience and put your business in the social...
