Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Happy Thanksgiving!
We have taken the week off to prepare for Thanksgiving festivities with family and friends. We wish all our readers a fun and safe Holiday! 🦃 We will return next week with a new Blog. See you then...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Is your business product or service a candidate as a sticking stuffer? Read this week’s Blog for ideas.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Is Your Product or Service a Stocking Stuffer?
Hard to believe, the holiday season begins next week. It is a great time for some creative marketing. Stocking stuffers, as they are often called, include smaller gifts which physically fit in a holi...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Is your business product or service a candidate as a sticking stuffer? Read this week’s Blog for ideas.
Happy Veteran’s Day and thank you to all who have served.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Veteran’s Designation
On today’s National Holiday, Veteran’s Day, it is a good time to review veteran-owned businesses. If at all possible, it is always the right thing to patronize a Veteran-Owned Business Enterprise. T...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Happy Veteran’s Day and thank you to all who have served.
Thanks to the CHQ Chamber for featuring my Ad in a great location of their weekly email Newsletter!
Join your local Chambers, they help small businesses in many ways, and enrich your community! #fetchyourcopy #brandpartnerships
Join your local Chambers, they help small businesses in many ways, and enrich your community! #fetchyourcopy #brandpartnerships
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Thanks to the CHQ Chamber for featuring my Ad in a great location of their weekly email Newsletter!
Join your local Chambers, they help small businesses in many ways, and enrich your community! #fetchyourcopy #brandpartnerships
Join your local Chambers, they help small businesses in many ways, and enrich your community! #fetchyourcopy #brandpartnerships
This week’s Blog addresses what to do with your down Time if your business experiences a down time.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Do you have a Slow Season?
Recently, a small business owner mentioned that an Ad for my book inspired her to make her own Ad. She mentioned it is her slow season and it seemed like a good time to focus on marketing. Some firms...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This week’s Blog addresses what to do with your down Time if your business experiences a down time.
Thank you to Sheila at CHQ Chamber for creating this Ad for me in their upcoming Email Newletter.
Invest in your local Chambers, it helps your business and your community!🩵
Invest in your local Chambers, it helps your business and your community!🩵
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank you to Sheila at CHQ Chamber for creating this Ad for me in their upcoming Email Newletter.
Invest in your local Chambers, it helps your business and your community!🩵
Invest in your local Chambers, it helps your business and your community!🩵
This week’s Blog discusses a recent experience with Going Live on Social
Media and the local Chamber.
Media and the local Chamber.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Going Live on Social Media
Social media sites like Instagram are full of videos or reels of animals doing cute things. Sometimes, a reel we post is chosen to be featured and suddenly hundreds of views occur. It really can be a ...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This week’s Blog discusses a recent experience with Going Live on Social
Media and the local Chamber.
Media and the local Chamber.
This week’s Blog. Read it to understand the meaning of the title.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —‘With money, the dog dances’
A common Spanish proverb, ‘with money, the dog dances’, seems symbolic of the change in behavior we are experiencing with upfront deposit requirements on projects. Often, in the past, tradition saw ...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This week’s Blog. Read it to understand the meaning of the title.
This week’s Blog - Expert by Choice or Default.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Expert by Choice or Default
In the dog world, there are breeds that excel in certain sports over others. Some of it is instinct, some of it is breeding, and other times it is specific training or a combination of any or all of ...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This week’s Blog - Expert by Choice or Default.
This week’s Blog addrsses a real life scenario of forwarding the wrong information in an email.
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Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Check the Details
If you have ever observed Dog Daycare, you will likely note groups in the various rooms or yards present. Not every dog has the same play style as another and some dogs just don’t like certain behavio...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This week’s Blog addrsses a real life scenario of forwarding the wrong information in an email.
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This week’s Blog discusses steps to take when changing your business location and view.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Changing Your View
Over the life of your business, you will likely change the location of your operations. There are certain steps to follow to ensure people find you. First, make sure you file a Change of Address with...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This week’s Blog discusses steps to take when changing your business location and view.
This week’s Small Business Blog.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —‘I’m a Visual Person’
Recently, as a client, a contractor commented to us that he is a visual person. This made sense as his memory for items discussed to get to completion seemed sketchy at best. If your work style is ab...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This week’s Small Business Blog.
Confidence, he owns it, do you?
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Surround Yourself with Confidence
As a small business owner, surround yourself with better people and expertise. Confidence will come across with this winning combination to your customer. We have been working with a small group of c...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Confidence, he owns it, do you?
This Labor Day week we discuss Leadership.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Leadership
Leaders are all around us. If you are a business owner, you are a leader, but are you as effective as your business needs you to be? Leaders need to listen. Listen to what your customers or clients n...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This Labor Day week we discuss Leadership.
This week’s Blog.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Pointing out Your Next Prospect
A good question for a consultant to ask a prospect or a client is where do your referrals come from? The most successful ones seem to respond my existing client or customer base. If you do not care ...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This week’s Blog.
This week’s Blog revisits Collaboration among Professionals.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Pointing Towards a New Collaboration
We have written about the many ways a small business owner can collaborate with others. We are seeing the consulting approach more and more and believe it is worth another discussion. In moving our h...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This week’s Blog revisits Collaboration among Professionals.
This week’s Blog - What Makes an Office.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —What Makes an Office
In today’s business world, office space can take on many forms that were not often used a generation ago. We have been wrestling with this in real time with our personal move out of town. First, the...
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August 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This week’s Blog - What Makes an Office.
As we continue our time off to move, make it a point to celebrate your favorite canine companion during August and National Dog Month! #makingapoint
August 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As we continue our time off to move, make it a point to celebrate your favorite canine companion during August and National Dog Month! #makingapoint
This week’s Blog: Meeting Management.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Meeting Management
Organizing and delivery an effective and well-thought-out meeting agenda is important to your brand. Flow, form, and function are critical factors to success here. Running a meeting that flows well i...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This week’s Blog: Meeting Management.
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Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —‘Phishing’ Around
Recently, we have been seeing an influx of ‘phishing’ scams. Many of these are coming by text. And they are being sent to business numbers, not just personal numbers. The definition of phishing from ...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Being on Time Matters.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Being on Time Matters
It is said time is relative. But, when it comes to business, it is not something you should ignore. Business owners are busy. We all acknowledge that. And if your business succeeds theough appointme...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Being on Time Matters.
Today’s weekly Blog addresses the importance of a proper introduction of a new team member.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Introducing a New Member of Your Pack
If you have ever had more than one dog in your household, you know the importance of having a slow and positive introduction. It is critical to a peaceful environment. Well, it is no different in the...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today’s weekly Blog addresses the importance of a proper introduction of a new team member.
This week’s Blog: Finding Friends instead of Competitors among Colleagues.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —Why Can’t We Be Friends? We Can!
This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending my first public book signing at Barnes & Noble in Victor, NY. Three women authors, of varying genres, presented a united front. One of the main...
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June 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This week’s Blog: Finding Friends instead of Competitors among Colleagues.
‘No Grace Nor Gratitude’ - never be the customer or client who treats a business owner without respect for their efforts.
Illuminate Business Consulting, LLC - Buffalo NY —Making a Point —No Grace Nor Gratitude
If you have a dog as part of your family, you know they will often show their gratitude with a sloppy, wet kiss. Their favorite toy, their favorite treat, their favorite human - they all can elicit gr...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
‘No Grace Nor Gratitude’ - never be the customer or client who treats a business owner without respect for their efforts.