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Project Completed: Find Coaches

Kona Impact is proud to see the launch of Find Coaches. This website is a directory website for coaches–not the traditional type of “coach”-soccer, baseball, etc–but a new and rapidly growing field of personal coaching. This includes Life, Business, Wellness, ADHD, Retirement and many more avenues of personal coaching. These coaches are for people who […]

Hmmmm….Is that so?

Remember the old days when THE place to advertise was the yellow pages? Businesses would take out huge, full-page ads, because, well, they worked. That, however, was in the early 1990s. Nowadays, most businesses do not even bother with paid yellow pages ads, because they are expensive and mostly ineffective. Some people say the same […]

Paying with Your Time

Everything has a cost. This, most would agree, is a fundamental truism in business. The cost might be in capital (money), time (labor, money), or in opportunity cost (the cost of choosing one course of action over another). Paying with capital is pretty straightforward. The cost of a new printer, for example, is $XXX.XX. But, […]

Earth Day at Kona Impact

We certainly do not claim to be a “green company”, but we like to say that we seek to reduce our environmental impact. Here’s what we do: 1. All green waste–coffee ground, filters, banana peels, apple cores, etc.–is composted and used in our gardens 2. Paper waste is shredded and used in our worm farm, […]

Business is Ramping Up in Kailua-Kona

I couldn’t help but notice the other day all the new construction I have seen near our office in “downtown” Kailua-Kona. This is a good sign for the future of our our town, especially those who are doing the building and those who will be working. Here are a few within a few minutes of […]

Project Completed: Ed's Cleaning

Many of Kona Impact’s clients are people who are making transitions in their life: from employee to business owner, from at-home business to a business with a shop or storefront, and in the case of Ed’s Cleaning, a business that is rebranding. Ed used to own the COIT carpet cleaning franchise in Kona, Hawaii. After […]

Suing Match.com? Where does a business’ responsibility end?

There is a woman in Nevada suing Match.com, the online dating site, for ten million dollars claiming that it did not provide enough overt warnings to site users of dating dangers. The story is, indeed, tragic: the woman did meet a man on Match.com, and after a few dates, he brutally attacked her (and later […]