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Delivering Happiness: It’s A Round Trip Ticket
I’m a lucky business owner. When I started Trek Light Gear, I had never started or attempted to run a business before in my life. It more or less came into being only as a way to tell more people than...
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Lessons In Happiness: Karma Goes Digital
I recently wrote about Delivering Happiness after I was inspired by an email I received from a happy customer. I just received another email that got me a thinking about happiness all over again and...
View ArticleLessons In Happiness: Holiday Edition
Continuing the Lessons In Happiness series I just wanted to share a great note from the Inbox, it’s letters like these that fuel the Trek Light fire (figuratively, I promise we don’t throw them in the...
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The Cheers Effect: Why Social Media Works For Businesses And How To Use It
If you read the emails in some of my previous posts on happiness, you’ll quickly recognize some of the same themes and ‘happiness triggers’ at work. As customers what we want usually boils down to...
View ArticleLessons In Happiness: The Product Is Secondary
I just got off the phone with a customer who called in just to say “Thank You”. He didn’t have any questions, any concerns or complaints, he simply just wanted to tell me (not even knowing I was the...
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Building A Happy Community With Social Media
{ I realize that this post and the one before it are likely more appealing to other small business owners, entrepreneurs and the like, as opposed to some of the other topics covered on this blog....
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Fans of FREE: The Sticker Dilemma
You gotta love learning lessons as you go, right? I just found myself with an interesting dilemma as a small business owner and I’m looking for your help and feedback to figure out what to do....
View ArticleOne-For-One: A Charity Problem You Can Help Solve
As many of you who follow along with the blog know, it’s long been my mission to make charity and giving back a strong part of the DNA at Trek Light Gear. Both online and offline you’ll often hear me...
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Beauty In Business: How A Hammock Really Can Change The World
A huge part of the joy I get from running a business like Trek Light Gear is the stories. We hear from people on an almost daily basis, sharing their experiences, telling us how our products have...
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Facebook Is Hiding Posts From You: How You Can Take Back Control Of Your News...
[If you want to skip the backstory and go straight to the steps to fix your Facebook feed, just click here] Depending on how far and wide this post spreads it’s tough to know how many of you reading...
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Trek Light Tattoos – The Insanely Awesome Fans of TLG
Chad Patzer – Mr. #1 Three years ago we had a contest. And as a final, late minute addition to that contest I decided to include an ‘instant win’ option. All you had to do to win the prize: get a Trek...
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Doubling Down on Earth Day
It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been almost a decade since I first shared the news of our Buy A Hammock, Plant A Tree program. Since that moment, you and I together have planted thousands of trees...
View ArticleA Simple Idea To Make The World A Better Place
The decisions we make these days – where to eat, what to buy, what service professionals to trust – are influenced more than ever by reading reviews online. And rightfully so, it’s quite honestly one...
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The Cheers Effect: Why Social Media Works For Businesses And How To Use It
If you read the emails in some of my previous posts on happiness, you’ll quickly recognize some of the same themes and ‘happiness triggers’ at work. As customers what we want usually boils down to...
View ArticleLessons In Happiness: The Product Is Secondary
I just got off the phone with a customer who called in just to say “Thank You”. He didn’t have any questions, any concerns or complaints, he simply just wanted to tell me (not even knowing I was the...
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Building A Happy Community With Social Media
{ I realize that this post and the one before it are likely more appealing to other small business owners, entrepreneurs and the like, as opposed to some of the other topics covered on this blog....
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Fans of FREE: The Sticker Dilemma
You gotta love learning lessons as you go, right? I just found myself with an interesting dilemma as a small business owner and I’m looking for your help and feedback to figure out what to do....
View ArticleOne-For-One: A Charity Problem You Can Help Solve
As many of you who follow along with the blog know, it’s long been my mission to make charity and giving back a strong part of the DNA at Trek Light Gear. Both online and offline you’ll often hear me...
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