While in a meeting with a client the other day at Rinish.com’s offices in the
Innovation Center (or Rinivation Center as we like to call it) he mentioned some reasons as to why he decided to go with our company in redesigning and rebuilding his company’s website. Those primary reasons were 1) We had a live person answering the phone, 2) We were local and 3) We did what we said we would. And with that, I began to reflect on some of the smaller things I believed in when building the company that seems have made the biggest impact. Continue reading
Category Archives: Business Lessons
Why the iPhone is NOT coming to Verizon anytime soon
I really wanted to believe. I really did. I am one of the biggest technophiles you’ll meet. In fact, I held off for two generations of iPhones until I broke down and made the lateral move from Verizon to AT&T. I was lucky enough to have family members take over my Verizon plan so my other half and I could get an account on AT&T thus securing me an iPhone 3G s and her a 3G.
One of the primary reasons I was so happy that I got to keep an open Verizon account is I kept hold of the belief and hype that an iPhone was coming to Verizon: a vPhone if you will. I was sooooooo inclined to believe the hype that I actually waited until the second shipment of new 4th Gen iPhones instead of buying on the first day 
But as I continued to get my daily dose of Tech News (my RSS reader has thousands of new posts daily on Tech alone) I started to wonder if there was ever really a chance that an iPhone would come over to Verizon. Despite Apple having a much larger base capital, Verizon rules in terms of providing the best cell phone service in the states. Continue reading
Why Start Up Scramble is a must attend for start ups looking for success
As I continue to reflect on the last two years of my company’s growth towards sustainability I still find myself shocked and amazed the business has come as far as it has in such a short amount of time. The majority of all business start ups fail and industries that have a high rate of saturation of businesses providing those services or products obviously generate a larger percentage of failures (two examples are Pizza Shops in Old Forge, PA and Website Design companies anywhere on the planet).
Although there are no guarantees a business will succeed there are steps that the shareholder(s) could take that put their business in a better position to succeed. In the first year of business I focused a lot of my time and effort on: Continue reading
Boot Strapping all the way to success
One of the things that I hold very close to me is start-up business ventures bootstrapping their way to success. For those of you who don’t know what boot strapping is, it refers to a style of building your business start-up with little or no funding and using tactics such as guerilla marketing to help get your product out there. When you begin Bootstrapping Your Business you can Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No Money
When I started Neophyte and Rinish.com I had just quit my job of making around 24,000 dollars. I was living pay check to pay check because after paying for living expenses for my family and I there a little money left over for “luxuries”. I knew I wasn’t going to go far enough fast enough in the field I was in at that time. I had ambitions and at 29 years of age I knew that I had better make a move and do it quick. Continue reading
6 Ways I Turned a Business into a Business
I often talk about the saturation that is the website building industry. I also make no qualms about mentioning how I think most of these “businesses” are nothing more than some person who learned basic HTML from a class in High School or college and figured that’s good enough to sell their “services. Unfortunatly, there are some people who fall for these types of website building professionals.
But it’s not these wanna-be-webbies that are the only ones accounting for the large population of failed or never to really materialize website design businesses. Continue reading
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