Until recently I was a hardcore how-to reader, spending time inhaling nonfiction.  Why waste time on made-up stories when how-to do everything is indexed neatly in the library?  How-to books make you smarter. They break things into steps even a monkey can do! They strip away narrative and serve up facts gathered from lifetimes of [...]

How much time do you estimate you spend thinking about your business?  It probably ranges from - every waking moment to only when I can shut it off.
The real heavy lifting of the entrepreneur’s journey is the thinking process.  Our work is problem solving on the fly.  To do this we are supposed to know [...]

Is your day filled with creating new business opportunities or is it sequestered by a flurry of  emails, tweets and social media interactions without much to show for it at the end of the day?  There is a great distinction between being busy and working.  Busy is exhausting.  Working is exhilarating.
Busy is ducking from the [...]

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 [...]

I have started two companies - one backwards and the other with planning.  The one I knew nothing about was much easier than the one I thought I knew something about.  Here are both formulas for your reference.
Company 1
Epiphany + no clue + limited skills + first client falls in lap x ignorance and [...]

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 [...]

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I worry about myself when everything is in order.  Isn’t a neat office the sign of an empty mind? How is it possible that my accountant and bookkeeper have overcome my chaos? How is it feasible that my efficiency expert has delivered on her promise to “get more done so I [...]

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After reading countless stories about deals that fell through -  I want to share with you a famous story that I resented reading, but in retrospect have found comforting.
Ping - A Frog in Search of a New Pond by Stuart Avery - tells of a frog who needs a new  [...]

If you want new business and wonder what to do next - we hear you.
If you want to do it by not going anywhere - don’t budge, keep reading.
If you wish someone would just TELL you what to do….here’s what to do.
Change the content on your website regularly with key words that people search for.  [...]

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Whether you are embarking on the entrepreneurial journey by choice or destiny- the method to entry is simple. You have a vision, skill or identify a hole in the market. You learn a bunch of stuff from people, courses, groups, schools and research. Then you put it into a business plan or not.  [...]