Horse Manure black gold goes green




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