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If you want to learn social media, SEO, how to set-up a blog, start a Twitter page, streamline your process, rearrange your office, [...]

There are 27,000 current members in Linked n Chicago, thousands of members & friends of Big Ooga, Local First, BNC, Evanston Chamber, West Suburban Chamber, the Naperville LinkedIn Business Group and the Evanston / North Shore Business Group.
Among them, the owners, founders, leaders, volunteers and members share a common vision, to create a working, generous, [...]

The real heavy lifting for Chicago entrepreneurs is the thinking - it’s the figuring out and adjusting  - what is my product or service? What needs to change and improve? What words should I use to describe it? The ongoing evolution process is agonizing!  Real entrepreneurship means hitting moving targets and constantly adjusting to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s his birthday and I want to celebrate without letting him know.  He was a Varsity athlete loved by the students,  a sweetheart..OMG.   I went to every game even though I’m not a sports fan and recently he was inducted into the HPHS Hall of Fame.
Everyone at our high school was invited to the induction [...]

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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 [...]