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Horse Manure black gold goes green

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A New Reason to Compost Horse Manure By Josh Nelson

Manure Management that saves you money and warms you

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Small Business Resource Guide

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Small Business Resource Guide CD by the IRS

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Seven marketing boo-boos costing you business

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Common horse Business promotion mistakes; are you making them?

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Simple ways to get more done

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Now you can use your voice to work more effectively

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Building your business with Internet Trotting

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Becoming an Internet Spy is vital to the success of your horse business!

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Free Software to create word documents, PDFs, and more

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Software programs to help your horse business

Free Office Software

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Customers rate service higher than price

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Customers demand better service and are willing to pay a higher price for it.

I just read, “Satisfied Customers : What Do Customers Want? and it spills the beans about what is really important to your customers.

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With horses manure happens

It is a given; with horses sh-t happens - and often

If you own or work with horses you end up in trouble of some kind or another, sooner or later. You have heard it before, “It is not IF, but WHEN you will get hurt by a horse.” Did you know that most horse accidents happen when you are not on the horse’s back? That means that there are more horse handling accidents then horse riding accidents.

One end or the other end can get you in trouble with horses - check out this news article - Florida Man In Deep Doo Doo Over Composting Business Thursday, August 2, 2007.

Please take extra care in all your dealing with horses and learn to be safer around them and on them. If you have a horse business it is an important part of your business to learn and teach horse safety. Also learn about the latest safety equipment and tack like safety stirrups and riding helmets.

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Horses artist; horses that paint

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Horses are know for running and jumping, but now there are a few that have taken up painting. They hold the paintbrush in their mouth and nod and swing their head while applying paint to canvas or paper. I bet some of these horse artist have sold more paintings than some human artist.

Horse business owners take note that the owners of these horse painters know how to get publicity; publicity equals more sales. Check out the PR news on Romeo and Juliet - newspapers, web sites, blogs, horse magazines to bird magazines. What does your horse or horse business do that is a bit different - news worthy ? - well get the news out with press releases and blog postings!

Meet the four horses that paint…

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The foaling of a horse business

How a new equine business is born from noticing a hoof problem

In July of 2006 Bryan Tilghman contacted me about purchasing a horse logo design for a horse hoof product he was working on marketing. The product idea seemed sound to me and I was impressed with the fact that he seemed to have done his homework by researching the available product options and markets.

Too many people contact me wanting to start some kind of horse business, but they haven’t done ANY research at all. I have even turned down logo clients telling them to rethink their marketing plan (like make one in the first place) and then get back with me.

The birth of a business idea

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