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For small companies and entrepreneurs battling overload and needing more business, this B2B progressive networking is for you. By harnessing the power of small group brain trusts lead by experienced coaches, you will have think tanks of experienced entrepreneurs dedicated to helping your company. As you move from table to table, you will give and [...]

I emailed Les Brown and asked him to speak at Big Ooga. I was shocked when the phone rang a few minutes later. “Hello, this is Big Ooga.” “Hello, this is Les Brown.” I must have been drinking the motivational Kool Aid when I reached out in the first place. “Why not give it a [...]

It is with great excitement that we are entering into a new alliance with the Small Business Advocacy Council.  Their mission is to empower business owners and professionals through policies that improve the economic environment. Filled with a membership of committed entrepreneurs and companies who support entrepreneurs, the SBAC has successfully drafted a bill that [...]

I have grappled with investing in myself and my business. The underpinnings of this decision-making process go down to the bone of self-worth. The self-help book I should be reading is,  My Business, Myself , which I haven’t written. It’s set in what Faith Popcorn coined as the “atomsFear” where grown-uppery is the two sided [...]

If you are a solo entrepreneur with one, several or many clients, a start-up, use collaborators, have friends and family, occasionally need tech help or belong to a business group, not only are you NOT alone, YOU are in a tribe, YOUR TRIBE. This may come as a shock to those of us who wear [...]

There is nothing more exhilarating than knowing where you’re going in business, seeing the road ahead and knowing what steps to take.  Just having that in your pocket feels like a currency, like being rich with hope AND strategy. Conversely, speaking for myself and possibly the other 22 million of us US entrepreneurs who sometimes [...]

Last year I was operating under the old ratio of:  busy tasks vs. priority tasks.  The equation looked like this:  600 + 4 = a day in the life of an entrepreneur. The 600 represents everything other than what you should actually be doing -  reading possibly important stuff, looking for stuff, responding to stuff, [...]

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,  [...]