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Image via Wikipedia For those of you who missed the fantastic Big Ooga Biz Blast on Tuesday, the very awesome Mark Carter gave us some valuable tips on how best to spend time online to boost business. One thing we discussed was the elusiveness of Twitter.  People either love it or hate it.  It’s almost [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last year, there was an AND in networking. I’ll join this group AND that. I’ll be active in this organization AND that.  With cash flow, there were lots of choices for events, luncheons, networks, meetings and classes.  If one blew, there were plenty more..not that you were reckless.   It [...]

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 [...]

Image via Wikipedia Good News. We would like to point out there is a 93% employment rate in the US.   Go out there and find your people! If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, we are here to help.

Image via Wikipedia A new business relationship is a clean slate – you have yet to prove yourself or put your foot in your mouth.  A past business relationship is history.  It may consist of a beginning, middle and end or an end that started at hello.  No matter what it was, an unresolved story [...]

It was one of those evenings where the conversation flowed so effortlessly that you hated to interrupt it with a program.  Like-minded entrepreneurs and business people from diverse industries gravitated and circulated like friends who enjoyed each others’ company.  We could not have been more pleased by the ease of this event, the wonderful guests [...]

Image via Wikipedia Tonight is the first Big Ooga Biz Blast at Catalyst Ranch.   Here are my opening remarks. Good evening everybody. I’m Lennie Rose, and instead of telling you about the Big Ooga, which you can find out by going to the website, I’d rather tell you about why you are Big Ooga people. [...]

Image via Wikipedia It astounds me when meeting entrepreneurs for the first time their method in relationship building is to sell me on their services.  This is  a turn-off and literally antisocial.  The root of relationship is relate. Here are a few tips that have worked for me.  Please share what works for you. 1. [...]