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How to create a Small Business of the Year

photo by iLoveButter  Being a small business owner is hard, but if you go into it with the idea that you want to be remarkable, that you want to be the best you can be, then amazing things can happen. There’s Happy Cows in Missouri as well I just had the opportunity to listen to […]

You only hit what you aim at – are you aiming high?

photo by jonrawlinson  Inspiration is a funny thing.  You can’t touch it, you can’t always explain it or where it came from but it’s important to occasionally get it renewed. As a small business owner, if you’re not inspired by something you are likely headed for a long and painful decline.  Unlike the corporate world […]

Hammering home the point about networking

photo by PPDIGITAL  Have you ever had a situation where you learned something and you thought you knew it – maybe you even passed it along to other people, and then you saw the same idea with a slight variation and it suddenly made a lot more sense?  Where it’s like suddenly getting hit with […]

Does your story Jump Off the Page and Dazzle?

photo by Nicholas_T  I had the chance to see the movie “21” last night and one of the central themes of the movie really stood out to me.  The main character is a super-smart kid from humble roots in Boston and is in desperate need of a full ride scholarship to Harvard Medical school (Harvard […]

How to Get Up to Speed on Linked In

Photo by Jpctalbot Linked In has been around for a while now, but it appears to have hit a a tipping point recently with well over 20 Million people on the free online networking tool. According to the statistics, over 47 thousand people were added to my network…just in the last day!  My network consists […]

It looks good enough to eat!

Picture by Darwin Bell Have you ever been watching TV when you were really hungry? The pizza ad with the impossibly good looking slices of gooey cheese and crispy crust, super piled high with great looking toppings. The steak on the grill just that’s just about done, juices dripping down into the flames and the […]