JR Griggs - Marketing Blog and Business Blog

Did You Not Mean to or Did You Mean Not to?

I pulled up to the street as I was exiting the parking lot and as I was stopping, a car passing by swerved so bad, you would have thought I was coming at him full speed. I said out loud, “What the heck’s his problem?” I was 18 or 19 at the time and my […]

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Get Used to Hearing “No”, So You Can Get to “Yes”

Getting rejected is often very difficult for someone to bear. However, if you are going to sell anything, you need to be able to take rejection. Did you know? …. The best salesman get rejected 70% of the time. The best baseball players won’t hit the ball 70% of the time. These are the best […]

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Don’t be a Brain Picking Snob

It happens quite often, you know, when you see a blog post or someone share on social media about how horrid it is that someone asks to “pick their brain”. This is usually a rant about how someone had the audacity to think they could ask for help without paying a hefty fee. I mean, […]

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[Video Post] Even in Texas Your Customers Are Just People

I’m writing this post from 37,000 feet in the air. On my way back from Texas. Had an interesting phone call with my son where he mentioned some interesting thoughts about what was in Texas. It reminded me of how I hear so many business owners say that their business is different. They will insist […]

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How Systems Eliminate Problems

If you get on the Rambling Bayou at Adventure Island in Tampa, you’ll notice something interesting about the inner tubes. All of them are green, except for a single red one. I always found this one red tube to be interesting. The Rambling Bayou or as we call it “The Lazy River”, is basically a […]

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3 Reasons Your Website Does Not Convert

Ok, so you have a website, you even have some traffic to your website. But you don’t have any sales, calls or emails from it. What are you doing wrong? I run into this issue a lot and not always because the owner had his son build the site. Quite often, even web designers are […]

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The Power of an Advertorial

On last night’s Celebrity Apprentice, I was a bit shocked at the use of the term “Advertorial”. The two teams were tasked with designing an advertorial for Melania Trump’s new skin care line. When I heard this, I was interested to see what the teams would do. Being that an advertorial is a copywriting task, […]

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With Tech for Businesses Getting Cheaper and Easier, Why Are Many so Far Behind?

This post originally appeared on CNN’s iReport. Technology is getting cheaper and cheaper every year. It is also getting easier to find tech that will help do just about anything you need. So why is it that so many businesses are still behind on utilizing it? For example, even though setting up a website is […]

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Why Tracking is so Important to Your Business

"I don’t know." That answer comes up way too often when talking to a business owner about their marketing and sales. They aren’t tracking anything and therefore cannot answer when I ask how a certain ad or marketing tactic is working. When you run a business without properly tracking sales and marketing, you are blindly […]

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