Marketing your
small business
takes fifteen minutes
a day.

Lawn guy. Vending operator. Reluctant professor.

David Nichols owns and runs two small businesses in Upstate South Carolina — Palmetto Lawn & Pest and 864 Vending Services — and teaches marketing, sales, and business communication part-time at North Greenville University. He has a Master's degree in Broadcast Management, thirteen years running a hyperlocal media platform, and a stutter he's never fully shaken despite a career that kept putting him on camera anyway.

"I'm lousy at academic theory. But I'm more than happy to show you how this stuff actually works."

That's what he tells every class he's ever taught, and it's the entire spirit of this book. No funnels. No jargon. No pretending you have a marketing department. Just real stories — a dusty trailer that got 30,000 views, a raccoon named Randall who became a brand mascot, an angry review about acorns — and the real, repeatable systems built underneath them.

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