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King's Dream Approved as a Mentor for Washington's Cannabis Social Equity Program
King's Dream Business Consulting has been approved to serve as a mentor under Washington State's Cannabis Social Equity Technical Assistance & Grant Program — extending the firm's hands-on business coaching to entrepreneurs working toward licensed cannabis retail ownership.
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Content, Curated: How King's Dream Supported Aide-Mémoire's Online Shelf Space
A Seattle jewelry shop built around ethically sourced materials and a curated roster of LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and women-led makers needed its online presence to feel as thoughtful as its sales floor — here's how King's Dream helped tell that story. Who Is Aide-Mémoire Aide-Mémoire is a brick-and-mortar jewelry shop in Seattle's Phinneywood neighborhood, built around a simple premise: fine jewelry doesn't have to come at the expense of the people who make it or the planet it's made f
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Case Study: Launching The Re-Sole 206
The Re-Sole 206 is Seattle's first dry cleaner for sneakers — and King's Dream helped founder Takiyah "TDUB" Ward build the marketing momentum to launch her brick-and-mortar flagship. Here's how it came together. Who Is The Re-Sole 206 Takiyah Ward brings over two decades of sneaker-customization practice to The Re-Sole, built on a simple mission: keep more kicks in rotation and out of the landfill. The business offers a tiered condition-rating system, clean-and-restore packa
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Your Trademark Isn't a Sales Strategy (And Your Founder Isn't a COO)
A 30-year-old fitness brand with two famous names and no systems behind them. A Local Mogul case study on what legacy small businesses lose when they skip systems, people, and outside perspective.
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Black Love in Seattle: How King's Consulting Built a Lead-Gen Engine for a Marriage-Minded Matchmaker
Every business lives or dies by the quality of its leads — even a matchmaking business. When a Seattle matchmaker found her contact form filling up with the wrong kind of inquiries, King's Dream Business Consulting didn't just write her a marketing plan. We rebuilt the front door itself. Chioma “Chi” Amaefule is a Certified Matchmaker and the founder of N.Y.A. Love and Dating Services in Seattle — N.Y.A. standing, in her own words, for “Not Your Average” matchmaker. In early
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King's Dream Selected as a Technical Assistance Provider for King County's 2026 Participatory Budgeting Program
King's Dream Business Consulting has been selected as a Technical Assistance Provider for King County's 2026 Participatory Budgeting program — helping community-based organizations in Skyway and White Center turn their ideas into fundable, ready-to-submit proposals for a combined $2.7 million in community-led grants.
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Your Prices Are Vibes, Not Strategy
You didn't set your prices — you vibed your way into them. You copied the competitor down the street, flinched at the number, and knocked off ten percent before you even said it out loud. Here's the three-line math that was supposed to set that price instead, worked out in round numbers, plus the one sentence that ends discount-guilt for good.
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Latine-Owned Businesses Are Outpacing the Market. Here's What the Market Should Learn.
The fastest-growing segment of American small business isn't waiting for permission, and it isn't waiting for a fair shot at the money it's earned, either.
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Keep It Local x Tacoma: How King's Dream Proved Government-Funded Business Consulting Could Work
Can a small, Black-owned consulting firm out-perform a traditional business accelerator — in a city government's own backyard? The City of Tacoma bet on King's Dream Business Consulting to find out. Seven months later, the results made the case.
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