Sunday, February 27, 2022

Client Highlight : Beaver Avionics

Red Bluff Municipal Airport KRBL
Red Bluff, CA 96080

p: (530) 567-4253
e: avionics@beaveravionics.com

Client since April 2020

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Publications


Commercial Truck Success, The Book

Building or Rebuilding an Effective, Successful,
and Profitable Commercial Truck Operation
within a Retail Auto Dealership
First edition published Feb 2012.

2nd Edition (2016)

For more information about us and what we do, visit our website.

Ryan Stone 
p: 707-480-0959
e: rstone@upwardtrend.org

Terry Minion
p: 707-434-9967
e: tminion@upwardtrend.org

Monday, February 21, 2022

5 Award-Winning Website Designs & What They Did Right


The internet is full of some amazing and inspiring websites, but finding these diamonds in the rough can be an incredible challenge, especially if you are unsure of where to start.

That's why we've put together our 5 favorite Award-Winning Website Design examples to get you started. Hopefully, these serve as incredible website inspiration for your website design!

Show us your inspiration and lets get started on your website.

Ryan Stone 
p: 707-480-0959
e: rstone@upwardtrend.org

Terry Minion
p: 707-434-9967
e: tminion@upwardtrend.org

Friday, February 18, 2022

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Consulting Services

The majority of our combined experience of over 50 years is in sales and sales management. That experience is available to help you build your sales team, or improve the one you have. We offer a complete range of services from a short session with ideas for you to implement, to a full time management situation.

We have particular expertise in the fields of light and medium duty commercial trucks, as well as the auto dealer business in general. Terry worked at the dealership level for 25 years, and Ryan for over 10 years. In addition, Terry worked for a major truck body manufacturer for 10 years, calling on auto truck dealers and using his expertise in this field to help train and improve numerous commercial truck operations. In February of 2012, Terry published his ground-breaking book, Commercial Truck Success to help all dealers to be more successful and profitable in the commercial truck market within a retail auto dealership. Terry has also owned three other retail businesses. All that experience in addition to our own businesses today.

To see these services in more detail, go to www.ctsdealer.net

All of our experience is among the best training for any retail operation. As a result, it is a perfect way to help most businesses improve the sales and sales management aspects of their business. Call us today for a free consultation to determine if and how we might help you in your business.

Ryan Stone 
p: 707-480-0959
e: rstone@upwardtrend.org

Terry Minion
p: 707-434-9967
e: tminion@upwardtrend.org

Saturday, February 12, 2022

What makes a truly great logo


Here's how a simple mark ends up meaning something big as a great logo. Joe Posner, and Michael Bierut (designer of the Hillary Clinton logo) explain. For more from Michael Bierut on graphic design, check out his book "How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, cry, and (every once in a while) change the world".

About once a month, there's a new logo to fight about on the internet. The biggest one in recent memory was the highly controversial Hillary Clinton logo, which did not escape scrutiny from Vox.com either. 

But as a designer/filmmaker, something about these repeated discussions struck me as missing the point on what makes logos tick. It often has little to do with the subjective musings. So I called up Michael Bierut, the designer of that Hillary Clinton logo and countless others. He sat down with me and helped explain the elements of a great logo in the video above. 

Do you need help building your brand with marketing? 
Contact us at Upward Trends.

Ryan Stone 
p: 707-480-0959
e: rstone@upwardtrend.org

Terry Minion
p: 707-434-9967
e: tminion@upwardtrend.org

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Meet Us .. Hello, I'm Ryan.


Hello, I'm Ryan Stone, partner of Upward Trends.

RYAN STONE
Partner
p: 707-480-0959
e: rstone@upwardtrend.org
Internet Marketing
Consulting | Sales Management

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Meet Us .. Hello, I'm Terry.

Hello, I'm Terry Minion, founder and partner of Upward Trends. 

TERRY MINION
Founder/Partner
p: 707-434-9967
e: tminion@upwardtrend.org
Internet Marketing | Blogs
Consulting | Sales Management

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Our Team

There are currently seven people on our team. Four bloggers, two graphic designers, and then Ryan and Terry. Because Ryan and Terry interact with clients and prospects, we are listed here. Everyone else enjoys their anonymity, but rest assured that there are people getting the work done in a timely and professional manner. All of these team members have been with us for quite some time, and Ryan and Terry appreciate that stability. Yes, absolutely! You will too!

Our goal is very simple: Help you grow your business. Everything that we do is aimed at helping you grow your business, from our Internet tools and packages, to consulting services, to sales management. We didn’t get into this business to sell websites. We got into it from our business background to help people grow their business, and the Internet is such a valuable tool in helping to achieve that. And, we’ve done it inexpensive enough that any business can afford it–and thrive with it.

Being effective on the Internet is much more than just having a website, so we help you by not only having an effective website, but put signs all over the Internet directing people to your business enterprises. We do this through the use of various Internet properties, all in concert toward growing your Internet presence and expanding your businesses influence and success.

It is our sales management experience that helps drive our focus on improving your bottom line. Between Terry and Ryan, we have over 50 years of sales and sales management experience in a variety of fields. This experience is invaluable in helping small businesses increase their marketing and sales effectiveness and profitability.

RYAN STONE 707-480-0959 /OR
TERRY MINION 707-434-9967

Thursday, February 3, 2022

What Do We Offer?

Our Trend Setter Package

Having an effective Internet presence is critical to your business growth. But, just building a website is not enough. At Upward Trend, we have a systematized strategy that has been proven effective, and we have just taken that to whole new levels with our Trend Setter Package. Give us a call today and find out how inexpensive your new Internet Marketing Department can be! We do 80% or more of the work for you! Our passion is not to build websites; it is helping you grow your business.

RYAN STONE 707-480-0959 /OR
TERRY MINION 707-434-9967

Visit our website to learn more about us and what we can do for your business.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

CONFUSED ABOUT HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN…


Use Internet? Website? Blog?
E-Commerce? Social Networking?
YouTube/Videos?
HTML Newsletters?
“What Is This Stuff?"
“Who Has The Time To Deal With It?"
“What’s In It For Me?"
Too Expensive?

RELAX. . .
We Make It So Easy! And So Affordable!


Contact Us
RYAN STONE 707-480-0959 /OR
TERRY MINION 707-434-9967