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Let us honor you!! Win Prizes!!
Throughout 2013 Small Business Drives America™ - Colorado Edition will be shining the spotlight on some of the fabulous small businesses and small business owners in our state. Would you like more free visibility for your small business? Would you like an opportunity to earn statewide peer recognition, as well as a suite of prizes that includes cash, technology and services designed for your business? Small Business Drives America™ will be showcasing 100s of Colorado-owned businesses in the coming weeks and months. Let us know why you are a great role model for other entrepreneurs to emulate? More details on specific visibility and prize opportunities will be announced soon. Until then, go right ahead and nominate yourself. Email us and tell us about you and your business - and what makes you unique. Be sure to include all of your contact information. Our email is: editor@smallbusinessdrivesamerica.com.
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How Do You Compare?
Take this and see how your outlook for 2013 compares to other local small business owners.
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Colorado Edition - January 2, 2013
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Happy New Year
Let's get down to business - small business. Welcome to the first edition of the Small Business Drives America™ - Colorado Edition newsletter.  This weekly resource is a celebration of small business owners, entrepreneurs, inventors and self-employed professionals - the dedicated, innovative men and women who drive our nation's economy and contribute so mightily to the social fabric of our communities.
Discover the valuable business insights shared here by others who've learned from experience - both good and bad.
And take advantage of the business-to-business discounts and other valuable tools included in each edition.
We encourage you to forward this newsletter to others who will also profit from it.
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Entrepreneurs Take the Lead
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Led by the nation's army of entrepreneurs, thousands of workers were on the job on Wednesday, December 12th, in shoes, but no socks.
Instead, they donated a new pair of socks to benefit the homeless as part of the first annual No Socks To Work™Day national drive.
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Bank on Yourself
This edition highlights Signal Butte Financial Corp - based in Florissant, Colorado - owned by David Biondo. David is an authorized Bank on Yourself Advisor and a leading wealth and financial planning expert. David and co-host Dean Rotbart discuss the merits of choosing a Bank on Yourself plan and why doing so is an ideal form of self-financing for small business owners.
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Ask David Biondo
303-800-6420 |
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How To Finance All of Your Business Needs and Never Again Need Face a Loan Committee
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Receive a free, zero-obligation copy of the New York Times bestseller, Bank on Yourself.
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COLUMN: LoomView Business Intelligence Report with Jake and Jeff Wilson
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Avoiding 'The Holy Grail Syndrome'
We've identified at least 10 specific components that every business owner must measure and track in order to affect meaningful and durable business transformation and advancement.
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A better website or enhanced search engine optimization process alone won't do it. A new salesperson or sales manger can't provide the full solution. Better marketing materials, in isolation, are no panacea. Ditto for better training of your staff or arbitrarily slicing overhead.
The real solution lies in an effective choreography - a business "weave" - that intertwines objective components that can be tracked, tested and analyzed to
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achieve three synergistic goals: increase revenues, decrease expenses and attract the most profitable new customers/clients.
Many businesses have the answers they need near at hand, they simply don't know the methods in which to take their conventional bookkeeping and data functions and transform them into a consistent stream of actionable, profitable business intelligence.
Read the full column here.
Visit the LoomView Enterprises website here.
On Your Smartphone: Hear Jeff and Jake discuss "The Holy Grail Syndrome" on The LoomView Business Intelligence Report, with former Wall Street Journal editor and columnist Dean Rotbart.
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50% off the LoomView Business Intelligence Assessment of the 10 key components of your business that can be tracked, tested and measured to increase revenue, decrease expenses and gain new customers.
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SHARE YOUR NEWS
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Small Business Drives America™ - Colorado Edition is the "community newspaper" of our state's small business community. We're interested in hearing from you and about you, including:
- New product lines you are launching
- New management/hires
- New locations
- Awards won
- Upcoming speeches/presentations
- Special landmarks, including "years in business"
Please be sure to include your full contact information. Email us at: editor@smallbusinessdrivesamerica.com. Feel free to send along digital photos. We LOVE photos!
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Like all new ventures, the weekly Small Business Drives America™ newsletter is a work in progress. We expect to see it evolve and improve in the weeks and months to come. And, we hope you'll help us by providing constructive feedback on how we can make this free weekly resource even more valuable to you as a small business owner.
On behalf of David Biondo, our entire staff, our contributors, and all of our great inaugural sponsors, let me wish you a healthful and prosperous 2013.
Sincerely,
Dean RotbartFounder & ChairmanSmall Business Drives America™ Phone: 303-800-6081 |
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TROIKA: Good Food, Great Service and Attractive Waitresses
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Mark Voss Tilted Kilt
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Hear our interview with Mark (13:50)
Broadcast: 12/23/12
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HEALTH: 99 Things to Know Before You Stress Out
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Stress Solutions University |
Hear our interview with Lauren (13:50)
Broadcast: 4/15/12
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PURSUITS: Jack Farland Brings New Life to Some of the World's Greatest-Ever Cars and Trucks
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Classic Restorations |
Hear our interview with Jack (31:44)
Posted: 12/24/12
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GRAND OPENING
Owners Scott (l) and David Menough of Wild Birds Unlimited.
David and Kathy's new location is at:
7370 West 88th Avenue, Unit A * Arvada, CO 80021
Look for details of his Grand Opening celebration in next week's newsletter.
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THE INVENTORS' ROUNDTABLE
Rita Crompton is "The Inventor Lady." She is also the driving force behind Colorado's best inventors' resource - The Inventors' Roundtable.
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FIELD TRIP
We'll bring the show to you. Literally. Business Unconventional will be taping our weekly radio program from a variety of on-site locations in 2013.
In this photo, hosts Dean Rotbart (in baseball cap) and David Biondo (to Dean's right) interview guests during a remote broadcast at the Centennial Gun Club. |
KELLEY & COMPANY
Steve Kelley, host of Kelley & Company on 710 KNUS AM is also an entrepreneur. You'll read about his latest project here in the near future.
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