Using Roadmaps to Hit your Goals
Roadmaps bring intentionality and accountability to our businesses and personal life. Learn how to create and use a roadmap.
Connecting your Website to Facebook Shop to Grow your Business.
Facebook and Instagram are now powerful business tools. Learn how Facebook Shop & Instagram Shop could be right for your business.
Should You Hire a Business Consultant or Coach? Local Union’s Approach.
Local Union helps small businesses reach their full potential. But how does the process work? And is it worth the investment?
Measuring Marketing Success: the Startup Scaries
Sunday Scaries? That’s nothing. Let’s talk about Startup Scaries! Marketing is critical for all businesses, especially new ones. Yet understanding what works and doesn’t requires two equations that will transform your business!
Spend Time on Your Customer: Invest in the Customer Experience to Drive Results
Tips on how to analyze customer trends and demographics to better improve your customer experience. Learn how to understand your customers, improve your online presence and in-store customer service, and maximize revenue on the customer journey.
The Power of Networking and Relationship Building
There is room for us all at the top. Networking, the right way, proves our success is multiplied when we surround ourselves with partners. We share tips on how to get the most out of networking.
Lessons Learned from Delta Air Lines
Eight years at Delta Air Lines fundamentally altered the course of Local Union's personal and professional life.
From customer strategies to goal setting to relationship building, we talk the five lessons learned from working at Delta.
Growing Profit: Business 101
Like raising a sail on a boat, there are specific levers used to steer business. We talk the profit levers that work for every business (and the ones that don’t).
Making Supply Chain Cool (Again?)
We’re here to convince you supply chain is cooler than it sounds and show how YOU have the opportunity to harness its power. Have you ever thought of the individual words in the term “supply chain?” We’re not sure who coined the phrase but we can guarantee it wasn’t a successful marketer! The two words, “supply” and “chain,” are powerful ingredients to successful eco-system.
When You Should (and Shouldn't) Shop Local: Five Questions to Ask
Some of America’s most special cities, think Austin or Portland or Asheville, are globally known for their culture, perpetuated by the business owners and residents. When a shop succeeds in the community, they provide more than just a product. But when should you shop online or at a chain instead of locally? We curated five questions to ask yourself the next time you make a purchase.
Coffee’s Role in Gentrification with Ebrik Coffee Room
Local Union sat down with Ebrik Coffee Room’s Abbas Barzegar and Shaa’ista Sabir to talk coffee’s role in gentrification and how businesses (and customers) can be better champions of culture.