Kona Impact has been in business nearly ten years. We recently took a deep look at the kind of businesses that have been the clients that have kept us in business; we found that almost all are locally owned. This is despite the fact that locally-owned businesses comprise only a small part of our local […]
I’ve been online long enough to remember the famous 1993 cartoon, where one dog is talkingïto another dog. He says, On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. It’s an internet classic. The joke is that anyone can post anything online. Well, 26 years later and we still (and always will) have people who take […]
We did a lot of thinking last year about how we can help our community become a place where entrepreneurism thrives and locally-owned and operated businesses start, grow and prosper. We all know the numbers: very little of the money spent at big box retailers cycles through our community. We know, for example, that a […]
Last year, we did a lot of thinking about how we can help our community become a place where entrepreneurism thrives and locally-owned and operated businesses start, grow, and prosper. We all know the numbers: very little money spent at big box retailers cycles through our community. We know, for example, that a big part […]
A life well lived, a game well played: David Bowie (1947-2016, RIP) It’s hard not to imagine anyone from my generation, the one before it, and perhaps current generations, who has not been inspired and touched by a David Bowie song. For me, it was “Changes,” which I played incessantly as an early teen. It […]
I was thinking the other day about what conversations I have that are the most frustrating. These are the conversations I have several times a year, and they all have the same script. The entrepreneur… Realizes she is struggling with her business. Knows the business is important to her livelihood Has used several off-island, low-cost […]
Never before have the tools for making business cards, brochures and newsletters been so readily available. What used to be a $2,500 software suite, the Adobe line of tools, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, can now be rented for about $50 a month. Most off-the-shelf computers these days can handle nearly all entry-level graphic design […]
Kona Impact is thankful for …having great employees who do their best to provide awesome products and services to our customers. …the several hundred businesses that chose to do business with us in 2015. …our suppliers who have helped us go from two or three-day turnaround to same and next day turnaround this year. …those […]
There’s a pretty accurate idea that 20% of your clients are responsible for 80% of your problems. I’ve also heard that 20% of your clients are responsible for 80% of your profits. We’ve found both—plus or minus 10%–to be true. Some days it feels like 1% of our clients are responsible for 99% of our […]
Every year or so, we get a client who requests the Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop file of a project. At times, we say, “yes, here it is,” and most of the time, we say, “no.” The always “yes” answer is with logo design projects. The “no” is with almost everything else. The metaphor I like […]
