Image via Wikipedia For those of us who love to write, the joy is in discovering the inspiration of the day! You never know what’s in your head (of value) until you download it onto paper. Free flowing writing channels pure original insights. These can lead to business breakthroughs or crystallize ideas that were gasses [...]

Between social media, digital media, blogging, twitter, Linked In and networking, a small business could go crazy in the acid rain of information and options.  Just doing a task takes you to a browser that lures you into reading a story you could care less about.  Sure you’re more informed, which might come in handy,  [...]

Carving out undisturbed time for focused work is so precious to entrepreneurs, we think of it as Mecca. I would like to describe my Mecca yesterday – the utterly delicious day I blocked off for hitting goals. I arrived at the desk at 7:30 am, went directly to my task list, do-not-stop-GO at email.  For [...]

Image via Wikipedia I don’t try to act “AS IF” I am successful or happy.  When I try, it’s to act “AS IF” I’m normal.  There have been plenty of times when I thought I WAS normal only to find out that I wasn’t. I’d like to take you back to my first real business [...]

Entrepreneurs are dreamers, optimists, builders, connectors, inventors, doers and very often people in flannel pajamas. We spend enormous amounts of time in our heads, hearts and on the computer, learning, connecting and planning what to do next. Most of the time we are a force of nature – but there are times when no one [...]

When we opened our doors, the goals of Big Ooga have always been to help Chicago area entrepreneurs become smarter, more successful and better connected. What we evolved into at “Hello” was a magnificent community of intelligent entrepreneurs and small business owners who genuinely cared about achieving success while helping others do the same. We [...]

If you are out there wondering what the BLEEP to do next in building your company, you are not alone. Clarity is a thing that gets tangled intermittently and sometimes feels like you’ve been hit by a meteor. This is a natural part of the entrepreneurial journey. Things work, things change, what worked isn’t working – then YOU have [...]

Barry Moltz sent out a dispatch about entrepreneurs from the Harvard Business Review written by Jeffrey Stibel, CEO of Dunn And Bradstreet Credibility Corporation. It was so right on, I had to share it.  If you are eating, sleeping and drinking your business, you are not alone.  Enjoy the read!  Enjoy the ride!   Here is the article Jeffrey wrote [...]

If you want to think outside the box, don’t use a box as your reference.  To be original you need to break convention. To break convention you need to break your routine and get inspired. To get inspired you may need to go inside (like meditation) or to The Far Side with Gary Larson to Pago Pago.  What you don’t need is to [...]

We are challenging the social construction of entrepreneurialism - a system that is minting chaos.  Going it alone as small business owners has given rise to enormous personal tolls. Doesn’t it make sense if we want better results, to build a better system?  Isn’t that what entrepreneurship is all about? Seeing a problem and fixing or improving it? ( I hear the coaches whispering, NO! Don’t call it [...]