Sold on Success: 5 ways to succeed in network marketing
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Atta Girl: 5 reasons women are drawn to direct sales
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Oh, yes she did: 5 influential women in Utah Valley’s direct sales world
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Collector’s Items: 5 products direct from Utah Valley
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Statistically Speaking: 5 ‘go figures’ of network marketing
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Rap Sheet: 5 reasons direct sales gets a bad rap
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
An Industry Divided: 5 top industries within direct sales
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Neighborhood Market: 5 reasons direct sales is so popular in Utah Valley
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
In Good Company: 5 influential direct sales companies in Utah Valley
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
The Q Awards: BusinessQ presents Utah Valley’s top movers and makers of 2014
Our first order of business here at BusinessQ is to ask the Qs. And as we gather the As — story by story, issue by issue — we begin to see trends. Winning trends. And once we’ve identified top-tier trends, faces, ideas, headlines and marketing strategies, our journalistic integrity calls for us to call them […]
Women at work: The Iron Woman
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” Jessica Stones stands out. At Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co., she’s the HR manager of 210 employees — and one of only 18 women at the Provo company. “It’s a male-dominated industry — no getting around that,” says […]
Women at work: A Nu Woman
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” Kara Schneck is in the middle of one beautiful career. As corporate communications director for Provo-based Nu Skin, Schneck has traveled around the world as a spokesperson of the $3.17-billion direct sales company. “This year I celebrated 20 years […]
Women at work: The Big Picture
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” It should have been chaos. Forty-three people crammed into two small rooms at BYU’s HFAC — stylists, assistants, kid models, their parents, and BYU photography students. At the center of it all? One calm instructor, commercial photographer Nicole Hill […]
Women at work: Hail to the Chief
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” A week before our interview, Carine Clark had a career-changer. Her South Jordan-based Allegiance merged with St. Louis-based Maritz Research, catapulting Clark from the CEO of 100 employees to the CEO of 900. Overnight. It was so not just […]
Women at work: Talk of the Tech
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” In 1996, there were three women in Cydni Tetro’s graduating class at BYU. Yep. Three. Her degree? Computer science. “My dad gave me great advice,” Tetro says. “He told me, ‘Who knows what you’re going to do in your […]
No. 6 Fastest-growing Company: Edge Homes
Edge Homes is fast becoming a household name. With its beginnings in 2008 — yes, THAT 2008 — the residential construction company rose out of the doom and gloom to become a hometown hero. “At that time, you couldn’t give lots away,” says Joel Harris, co-founder of Edge Homes. “We dreamt of the day when […]
No. 3 Startup to Watch: Qzzr
What is Qzzr? A) A sleek, online quiz tool. B) A startup that drives social traffic, captures leads, presents offers, and tracks scores. C) A company with clients like ESPN, CBS, Mashable, IBM, Yahoo!, Reddit, Yelp and KSL. D) A business run by serial (and seriously stellar) entrepreneurs. E) All of the above. The answer? […]
No. 17 Fastest-growing company: Amara Day Spa, Salon & Boutique
The growth at Amara Day Spa, Salon & Boutique has been a thing of beauty. Ten years ago, Leigh Bennett was an aesthetician who worked out of her Orem basement. She named her business Amara — a name she found in her sister’s baby book (it means beauty, naturally). But there are no baby steps […]
Top 10 Startups to Watch
The youngins’ — 10 creative companies that are shiny and new. NO. 1 FIBERFIX Founded 2012 City Pleasant Grove Employees 30 Industry Retail Website www.fiberfix.com Founders Eric Child, 42; Derek Rowley, 25; Reed Quinn, 34; Chris Quinn, 25; Spencer Quinn, 25 The Company A manufacturer and distributer of a rigid repair wrap. Why It’s Watch […]
Top 10 Revenue Companies
The money mavens — 10 companies Utah Valley banks on. NO. 1 NU SKIN 2013 Revenue $3,177,000,000 Founded 1984 City Provo Employees 1,500 Industry Personal care/nutrition Website www.nuskin.com CFO Ritch Wood, 48 Past UV50 Top Revenue Rankings 2009-2013: #1 The Company A direct sales company that operates in 53 markets and distributes more than 200 […]
eLearning Brothers: No. 1 Fastest-Growing Company in Utah Valley
When it comes to the Scivally siblings, watch and eLearn. The lively leaders of eLearning Brothers — the iStockPhoto of educational templates — are show-ers rather than tell-ers. They wear their orange hearts on their sleeves (and feet), they ninja jump with clients and they “slow clap” to celebrate company sales. But all of this […]
UV50: Top 30 Fastest-Growing Companies
The fast and the curious — 30 local companies that have innovation on speed dial. 1. eLEARNING BROTHERS Three-Year Growth 442% 2013 Revenue $2,499,344 Founded 2009 City American Fork Employees 30 (plus 20 contractors) Industry eLearning Website www.elearningbrothers.com, www.elearningtemplates.com Founders Andrew Scivally, 37; Shawn Ski Scivally, 35 The Company The iStockPhoto of eLearning, it has […]
Risky business: 5 local entrepreneurs dish on the riskiest thing they’ve ever done
Entrepreneurs have guts. They create something from nothing. They breathe life into livelihood. And they trade cushy consistency for the unsettling unknown. So just how do they get those stomachs of steel? BusinessQ asked five local entrepreneurs to share the riskiest thing they’ve ever (or almost ever) done. Find out who used wedding presents as […]
New Kids on the Block: 30 business rockstars in their 30s
Kids these days. They create companies, they lead teams, they travel the world and they build hot dog empires like nobody’s business. It’s music to our pages. So BusinessQ hit the streets of Utah Valley and rounded up 30 in their 30s — young powerhouses who aren’t afraid of cornering in on some good ol’ fashioned […]
Picture fixtures: 5 photo ideas that click
Great wedding photography isn’t a snap. It takes planning, perfectionists and the perfect-for-you photographer. Here are five ways to click with it. Meet and Greet Before you decide on your photographer — book yourself a meet cute. Get to know him or her and see if your personalities gel. If you want the stellar shots, […]
Small fish, big bite: Local business owners survive the ‘Shark Tank’
Six Utah Valley companies have walked the long “Shark Tank” hallway, prepared to meet their (money) makers. With prepared pitches on the brain — and a stomach full of nerves — these homegrown entrepreneurs left the fishbowl to play with the sharks. And, you know, to be seen by 8 million people on national television. […]
5 Utah Valley business billboards that rock the roads
It’s tough out there for a billboard. It has to be informative, readable and entertaining — all while cars zip by at 75 mph 65 mph. But these five business billboards (nominated by you, dear readers) have sped through the masses to become the most riveting rectangles. We talked to the local companies behind them to find […]
Talking points: 18 tips on proper PR etiquette
During the height of the great recession, financial institutions couldn’t bank on good PR. Banks were being blamed for many of the problems facing our country, and word on the street was that they were closing left and right. If your industry’s PR isn’t working for you — create your own. That’s what Bank of American […]
Industry Qs: 5 things you need to know about outsourcing overseas
Outsourcing overseas is a whole other world. Brigham Tomco, founder of Lehi-based Zylun, shares five tips to get your feet wet. The Why Understand why you want to outsource. (Save money? Scalability? Access to resources?) The Choices Know your options. There are many ways to outsource that can affect the cost, timing, scalability and quality […]
Swept Away
5 STRANDS OF WEDDING WISDOM Your wedding hair brings together your entire look — from the top of your head to the hem of your gown. Here are five ideas to give you a brush with success. BUN FUN The low bun is a thing of beauty. It’s relaxed but sophisticated. It’s curled but soft. It’s […]