Welcome to the Great Big Ooga Services Sale
 
We can personally endorse these wonderful companies – even blush about them. Our group mantra is Do it Right or Do it Over! So you can shop with confidence! Please feel free to connect directly with these vendors and tell them Lennie sent you!
 
 
 
Website Services
 
Professionally Designed Custom 5-page [...]

Join In! For members and non-members alike!
We are delighted to report that the entrepreneurial coffees last month were not only a hit, but a smash!
Of those who attended 95% would like to return.
What we discovered is that while our companies are different and our professional experience varies, our  journeys are indeed very similar.
We share the [...]

Our companies are different but the Phases of our journeys are remarkably the same.  Our time and head-space fluctuates between grappling with challenges, actual work, success, insight and agony.
We are constantly inventing and reinventing ourselves (beyond Phase I and back to Phase I) - searching for best practices and fine tuning messages, methods and marketing [...]

A Big Ooga member who would like to remain nameless came up with an excellent idea this morning - give out monthly awards to outstanding Big Ooga businesses and call it The BOOB Award (Big Ooga Outstanding Business) “Or for short,” he said, call them BOOBIEs.”
Geez, I thought, what do you do with that kind [...]

If one of your clients asks you for a professional referral - you’re not going to say, “I know someone who sucks! Take their number.”  You’re going to say, “I know the absolute best person to call.”
The more skilled your network, the better your reputation.  If you hang with great people, great people will give [...]

Ok - so I’ll let the cat out of the bag. I’ve been out here behind the scenes improving things. Meeting with people, developing concepts and setting the framework for future development.  The search has centered on adding value to your entrepreneurial journey, improving your Big Ooga experience and joining forces with the Linked N [...]

Build and Evolve Your Company
If you are building a start-up or updating your current company - and you need quality professionals - call the Big Ooga - we’ve got great people.
Build Your Skills
If you want to learn social media, SEO, how to set-up a blog, start a Twitter page, streamline your process, rearrange your office, [...]

There are 27,000 current members in Linked n Chicago, thousands of members & friends of Big Ooga, Local First, BNC, Evanston Chamber, West Suburban Chamber, the Naperville LinkedIn Business Group and the Evanston / North Shore Business Group.
Among them, the owners, founders, leaders, volunteers and members share a common vision, to create a working, generous, [...]

After the blush and expense of getting your small business website up - you may have noticed THAT IT’S ALREADY TIME TO EVOLVE - DANG IT!
Transforming your company website from an online brochure to a customer engagement tool is the next vista of the journey.
Luckily we have incredibly smart, skilled people among us [...]

The more inbound links your website has the better.  This raises your visibility in the search engines. (SEO)
You link to us, we link to you and everybody wins.  It’s not rocket science.
It’s with great pleasure that we announce PROJECT INBOUND - the more the merrier Link Fest.  Calling every Big Ooga member - whether you [...]