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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 [...]

Did you ever notice how incredibly hard it is to express your company in words? To say exactly what you do without sounding like everyone else? The trickiest thing in this business environment is the ability to evolve quickly and then capture this in consistent messages - Now if that isn’t an an oxymoron, I [...]

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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Chicago small business services are on sale and make the perfect gift to give yourself or entrepreneurs and small business owners you love. Give the gift of business success this holiday season.  Last call on these remarkable business services from Chicago Big Oogans.
1) WordPress Personal Blogging Coach - the fab [...]

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Big Ooga recently sent out a survey to find out what our members want for the coming year.  Did they want to meet more wonderful people?  Did they want to learn more skills? Did they want small group think-tanks and Mastermind groups? Did they want to create products or go to [...]

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Oh the glamorous life of the solo-preneur.  At this moment it is after 8 p.m. and I’m in my monkey goes bowling flannel pajamas with a plaid maxi scarf leftover from the 70’s.  This is what I was wearing when I woke up this morning - which means it is technically what I [...]

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Whether we turn left or right, veer, maneuver or align, right now the challenge is to keep the faith and shoot in the right direction.  The code of the road is experiment, develop - innovate, try AND learn. Thanks to Erin Shakoor of Shakoor interior design, I discovered a writer worth [...]

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I’ve spent a lot of time this week shaping and articulating entrepreneurial companies.  We have searched for the “vein of gold” as Julia Cameron refers to it - for what sets a company apart and fills an unmet market need.
We have approached it by asking what really turns on the entrepreneur & what [...]

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There was debate amongst Chicago art dealers that included those still in business and some no longer open as to how to price art in this economy.  According to the article in the Sunday Trib, the camps were divided into: the artists have earned their provenance and deserve their prices vs I’m making [...]