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Holiday Schedule

The Kona Impact office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and Friday, November 28. We will re-open on Monday, December 1. Enjoy your time with friends, family and loved ones.

What is the best material for signs?

Most of our signs are printed and mounted on some material. Banners and posters are the exception: they are printed on the material on which they will be displayed: banner material and some sort of paper. Other signs, however, are printed on vinyl or adhesive-backed paper and mounted to a substrate. Use will determine your […]

Advice for New Businesses in Kona, Hawaii

The previous blog was on Start-Up Business Mistakes. This blog focuses on some things new start-up businesses in Kona, Hawaii should consider in the business planning stages. Avoid the highly competitive business sectors. Fishing charters, manta night snorkel tours, burger restaurants and massage therapy are very over-represented in Kona. Find a different take on these […]

Kona, Hawaii Start-Up Business Mistakes

Anyone who has been in business in Hawaii knows that doing business here can be difficult. This is probably true of almost everywhere, but Hawaii does offer some unique challenges. They include local customs, unique market conditions, isolation, high costs, permits and the permitting processes, taxes, insurance requirements and many others. Here several things that […]

KonaCoffeeFarmForSale.com

At Kona Impact we deal with maybe 250 businesses a year. Most of the businesses are well-run and provide a good living for the owner. We look at many of them and say, “Good for them.” A few businesses we work with every year, however, are businesses we would like to own. Some are just […]

How Much Should I Spend on Online Advertising?

I had a good conversation with a client about this the other day. He asked, “How much should I plan on spending on online advertising?” It may seem like a fairly basic question, but it’s not. It’s an excellent question, one that goes to the fundamental issues of business and marketing. One answer is that […]

Support Good

Support Good Kona Impact is as busy as it has ever been, with multiple marketing and design projects going on all the time. We’re busy, which, of course, is a good thing. That said, it sometimes makes us too busy to take a step back and see the bigger picture of life. Life goes on […]