Hands-On WordPress Workshop – Build it so they will come
We’re thrilled to offer this class! Reinvent Your Site and Control Your Content Hands-on WordPress Workshop – Build it in two hours Whether you have an existing website or not, your company needs an Internet presence that is reaching and connecting with your target customers. In this class we will build a WordPress blog or [...]
Entrepreneur Advice – Problem Solving
If you’re wrestling, dogged or haunted by a business problem that is rearing its head day and night and every solution, sticky note, stream of consciousness, research, study, meditation or even jot on a cocktail napkin can’t crack the code, chances are you’ve turned this problem inward. Now, not only are you grappling with the [...]
Healing Entrepreneur Style – lessons learned from new knees
Entrepreneurs solve problems in a never-ending spiral of adaptability, innovation and deployment of new tools. We are in the market and the market is a current, flowing as opposed to solid ground. What I’ve learned over the past two weeks after knee surgery was how to walk again and the parallels of the process are stunningly similar [...]
Go with the Flow – Lessons Learned from My Worst Vacation
It all started with detailed plans to take a trip to the GrapeHound Festival in upstate New York. My trip-savvy daughter made the arrangements and planned to pick me up at the airport with her Greyhound and “my Greyhound” June. We’d drive to an “adorable cabin” in a gorgeous National Park and spend the week-end taking the dogs to their doggie fair to eat doggy ice cream in kookie [...]
Why We Need Each Other in Business – Top three Reasons
I asked Dave Mischler, President of Inner Circle, an expert in peer to peer business advisory groups, to share with us his top three reasons why we need each other in business. Enjoy his wisdom. Top Three Reasons Why People in Business Need Each Other 1. Nobody can know it all – It is a complex world we live [...]
Results of Big Ooga First Coffees Revealed – Chicago Entrepreneurs Speak
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 [...]
Toastmaster’s Competition – dead last but still a winner
I competed in Toastmaster’s Smack Down this week and came in last behind the mental patient. To make it worse, it was the easiest topic in the easiest division AND I did my best. In cream on cream wool with matching stilettos, my first 30 seconds were a breeze. But for the next 60 seconds, [...]
Have You Got The Glow?
Thanks to WLE I have this link to share with you. Take a moment to enjoy it and pass it on. Please cut and paste into your browser. http://www.glowproject.org/index.php
New Business Paradigm – Part 2
Image via Wikipedia In the last post we scratched the surface on how innovative thinking of the 60′s and 70′s is informing the current paradigm shift in business. By freeze-framing today we can see how we are synergizing tomorrow. Apparently we DID learn things. Then: The ideologies of the 60′s and 70′s embraced commune living [...]
In The Company of Fine Companies – Big Ooga Biz Blast
Image via Wikipedia For all the years I’ve entertained and made new friends, nothing compares to the power of the Internet to bring people together. Last night there was a remarkable mix of talented, accomplished, interesting people with whom I’m lucky enough to call friends in the pick-up-the-phone, we-really-will-do-lunch kinda way. The mix included a [...]

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