Growing a Business with Integrity and Fairness
Growing a business with integrity and fairness is something you have to plan for from the beginning, whether you own a start-up or a decades-old business like ours. It’s good to establish a company mission and vision that includes the community you serve. Your mission is a key to creating a brand that endures and …
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TEAL – Rocking a Self-Managed Business
You can’t just snap your fingers and have your entire organization switch from a hierarchical organization to a TEAL self-managed team – although I thought it would be easier than it has been. I thought “wow, no bosses and everyone does what they do best – what an awesome way to run a business.” Uptown Studios …
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Our Bold Business Model has Power and Magic
Uptown Studios has moved our business model to a TEAL model and it is based on “self-management.” It is a bold shift from the standard work environment – where everyone has a boss – to no one having a boss. What does that mean and how is it different from a standard business model? Each person …
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Seasonal Inspiration for the Year
This year has been a transformative one for Uptown Studios. We have added new services, new employees and have embraced a new business model, based on a self-motivated, self-managed team. There are no “bosses”, no time clocks, and that has equated into loads of creativity, support and ideas. Our new team members embrace this new …
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Yes, Whatever You Want Princess Google!
Business owners are Google’s captive audience. In 2008, Uptown Studios started paying a LOT of attention to what Google was telling us to do. We worked on our organic content, we developed strong keywords to make sure we are talking about what our visitors are searching for and we upgraded all the websites we manage …
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Spring Cleaning for Your Website
Now that spring is here, we have a few tips on how to clean up your website. Your website is your virtual office and it works for you 24/7 so investing some time into making it work better, especially if you haven’t updated it for use on mobile devices is really worth the time investment. …
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3 Tips to Getting a New Client
There are so many ways to navigate new clients – at Uptown Studios we build many options for us to meet new clients – here are three of our tips: 1. Show up and do what you say your will do. Volunteer your time and meet the people on your committee, at the meeting or …
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4 Quick Tips for Your Website
Who you gonna call when your website goes down? Uptown Studios! Our web development team is here to manage your website and keep it growing and up to date. We are here to jump in when you are hitting the wall – we are an email or call away – tina@uptownstudios.net or call 916-446-1082 Here …
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Who is the Fiercest Person You Know?
Sacramento is loaded with smart, talented and fabulous people. Tell me about the person in your life that is the smartest and fiercest and why I have to list a few: Meea Kang https://www.linkedin.com/in/relatedcalifornia/ Britta Guererro https://www.linkedin.com/in/britta-guerrero-90a70b16/ Cecilia Aguiar-Curry https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-aguiar-curry-9810b526/ These women are powerhouses working in many different areas, creating change all around them. …
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