{"id":9498,"date":"2015-08-06T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2015-08-04T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:08:55","slug":"small-business-success-and-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2015\/08\/small-business-success-and-quality.html","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Success and Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Quality<\/a>

Photo (CC) Jason Taellous, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of you may remember the Ford slogan of the 1980\u2019s, Quality is Job #1<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That slogan was true then for businesses. And it remains true today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yet, quality sometimes remains hard to find. For example in the last year, two households in my family had to purchase dishwashers. Two different brands were purchased but, to our amazement,\u00a0both of them\u00a0had production mistakes that needed to be fixed during installation.\u00a0The chances of that happening just seem to beat the odds. Neither company seemed to live up to the quality expected.<\/p>\n

Will the companies that produced the products survive? Probably. They are large and can overcome it. Large companies have shown time and again they have the capacity to overcome mistakes, although not without some pain.<\/p>\n

Small businesses, however, may not have the\u00a0resources to overcome quality issues. And small businesses in small communities are even more likely to get hurt as word will quickly spread if expectations are not met.<\/p>\n

Quality was, is and will remain key to building a successful small business.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When thinking about it, remember:<\/p>\n