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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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While politicians wrestle with the policy issues surrounding recent shooting rampage tragedies, entrepreneur Dave Jabas, CEO of WholeSaleLocks.com, has published an e-book designed to immediately empower parents to better protect their children's schools and to extinguish their sense of helplessness.
We Can Protect Our Children: The Guide to Securing Our Schools and Daycares spells out with clear, easy-to-understand descriptions and illustrations, how fast and simple upgrades to a building's door locks and related security hardware can prevent or significantly hinder an intruder's access to students and teachers.
Hear our interview with Dave (25:20)
Posted: 1/21/13
Read the Cranberry Newswire profile of Dave
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[Only 99 cents. Free for Amazon Prime members.]
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Take this and see how your strategy for growing your personal wealth compares with that of other local small business owners.
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by David McInnis, acclaimed NewsMarketer
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Colorado Edition - January 23, 2013
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Hello again
Economic forecasting is a complex process.
Few companies do it as well as Vectra Bank Colorado, which will host its 20th Annual Economic Forecast Breakfast next week.
You're invited - for FREE. Mark your calendars on Wednesday, January 30th, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
 Keeping close watch on the business horizon and how developments in Washington D.C. - or Syria and Greece - may impact your business is crucial.
This week Bruce K. Alexander, president and CEO of Vectra Bank Colorado, provides us an exclusive preview of next week's economic forecast breakfast, which will be streamed live over the Internet.
As Bruce observes, "We are all in this together. And the key is to be armed with enough information to be able to run your business well."
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The Week Ahead
January 25th: Power Up Your Personal Brand
Join Lida Citroën, corporate and personal branding expert, for a half-day workshop
January 27th: Business Unconventional
Guests:
January 28th: Monday Morning Radio present in cooperation with The Wizard Academy
Guest:
- Lida Citroën - founding principal, LIDA360, LLC
January 30th: Vectra Bank Colorado's 20th Annual Economic Forecast Breakfast
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POLL RESULTS: Small Business Outlook
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Optimism reigns among Colorado's small business owners and entrepreneurs
An Exclusive Cranberry Newswire Feature
More than 57% of small business owners in Colorado say they are optimistic that their companies will be more profitable in 2013 than in 2012, according to the results of the first weekly Small Business Drives Colorado™ online survey.
 Not coincidentally, those who do express a greater optimism about their prospects this year also report that they plan to hire additional employees.
Small business is a major economic engine in Colorado and throughout the nation, providing jobs, generating tax revenues, and serving as an incubator for technology, innovation and vital services.
The 2013 Small Business Drives Colorado™ initiative - which conducted the online poll - is a yearlong campaign designed to highlight and honor the numerous contributions that small business owners make to Colorado's economy and quality of life.
Among business owners participating in this week's poll, the largest percentage of respondents owned companies with one to five total employees; followed by owners of businesses with 10 to 25 employees and those with more than 50 employees.
The initial survey was emailed to more than 2,000 Colorado business owners, entrepreneurs, inventors and self-employed professionals. While the sampling and results are not weighted to reflect the demographics of the entire Colorado small business community - and hence are not a statistically valid scientific polling sample - they do reflect the views of active, informed and thoughtful owners.
Read the full Cranberry Newswire story here.
This week's survey, now underway, asks small business owners to assess the various wealth-building strategies - other than their own businesses - that they use most often. The choices include the stock/bond markets; real estate investing; gold and other precious metals; and whole life insurance.
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Put the Mountain States Toyota small business team on your team today! Phone Juan, Doug or Michael at 800-628-0982, or drop by anytime. They are located at 201 W. 70th Avenue in Denver (80221).
Mountain States Toyota - Helping Small Business Owners Drive the Colorado Economy
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VIDEO: Restoring Tarnished Reputations
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Lida Citroën: Creating power through personal branding
We're all known for something. Creativity. Success. Generosity. Courage. But we might be known for Hypocrisy. Greed. Dishonesty. Foolishness.
Our personal brand can be a wonderful asset or a miserable liability. This week's video features Lida Citroën, who has made a career helping people and companies create new or enhanced identities. She's also an expert on restoring tarnished reputations.
Lida is the author of Reputation 360: Creating power through personal branding.
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For more on Lida and personal branding:
Listen to her recent interview on Business Unconventional (13:50).
Visit her website.
Buy her book.
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LEARNED LESSONS: Ford Motor Company Was Also a Small Business
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By Dean Rotbart Editor-in-Chief, Small Business Drives America™ A Cranberry Newswire Feature
What can a locksmith teach a toy store retailer? And vice versa?
Years ago, I interviewed the editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine in his New York office and he explained what made the magazine's franchise so valuable and enduring.
"We're not about telling bankers what they need to know about the banking industry," he made plain.
"We're about showing automakers what they can learn from bankers; forest products companies how automakers innovate; semi-conductor companies the insights that propel forest products companies; and bankers what retailers have to teach."
Indeed. While industry conferences and trade publications can help all business owners and entrepreneurs hone their skills, the value of Small Business Drives America™ and its weekly spotlight on a diverse set of companies is that we can all learn valuable - actionable - lessons from one another.
A classic example of this took place 90 years ago when Henry Ford studied the continuous-flow production methods used by industrial bakeries, canneries, breweries, flour mills and meat-packing plants. Back in those days, it took more than 12 hours to assemble an entire automobile.
As History.com details, Ford knew that in order to put the price of autos within reach of the masses, he had to find a way to speed production and cut production costs. Thus, early in 1913 in its Highland Park, Michigan plant, Ford Motor Company installed a moving assembly line to produce flywheel magnetos. Soon, Ford engineers used an assembly line to manufacture Model T motors, and then transmissions. By October 1913, all of the major components of the Model T were relying on this technique.
Over the next 14 years, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company would turn out more than 15 million Model T cars, assembling a full auto every 24 seconds, according to History.com. During that period, the retail price of a car dropped from $850 to less than $300, while corporate profits soared.
Originally, Henry Ford was also a small business owner. The lessons he learned from observing other industries gave him the inspiration he required to grow large and global, and to change the world along the route.
Henry Ford drove the American economy with vision, ingenuity, perseverance and courage. It's a lesson we can all emulate, regardless of how we earn our livings.
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Dean Rotbart, founder and editor-in-chief of Small Business Drives America™, is a veteran journalist and successful entrepreneur. Along with acclaimed NewsMarketer David McInnis, Dean is a founder of Cranberry Newswire. Dean also serves as co-host of David Biondo. |
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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 pictures. We LOVE photos!
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We hope you'll take a minute to provide us feedback on our weekly e-newsletter. Our goal is to focus on topics and businesses that you will find of interest. We also hope you'll learn from the strategies and experiences (both good and bad) of each of the business owners and experts who we feature.
If you do find this free newsletter of value, please forward it to a fellow entrepreneur who might also profit from it. The more readers we are able to reach, the better our sources of information for future editions. And don't forget each week to check out our growing number of business-to-business discount offers.
We welcome your suggestions of small businesses and business owners who we can highlight for their roles in driving our state's and nation's economy.
Sincerely,
Dean RotbartFounder & ChairmanSmall Business Drives America™ Phone: 303-800-6081 |
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Take this and see how your strategy for growing your personal wealth compares with that of other local small business owners.
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Weekly Small Business Drives Colorado™ Honorees
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INVENTOR: Jim Wilkinson
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Jim and his company help inventors move their concepts from the idea-stage to the marketplace.
During our recent interview, Jim explained his individual success and the crucial role that CEO Space of Colorado has played.
Hear our interview with Jim (13:50)
Broadcast: 1/13/13
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FRANCHISER: This Entrepreneur is Helping to Perk Up the Pueblo Economy
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Michael Hartkop |
Hear our interview with Michael (13:50)
Broadcast: 1/20/2013
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Coming Sunday
January 27, 2013
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Business Unconventional
8 am (Mountain) - www.710KNUS.com
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Family owned and operated in Colorado since 1969, Security Central Inc. is a premier provider of integrated security solutions and 24-hour monitoring services.
Jordan Jackson, president, shares with listeners the secret to how his family business has beat back competition from giant, national security services providers. What can you learn from Jordan?
Be alert, Colorado, this coming Sunday morning on 710 KNUS AM ( www.710KNUS.com) and monitor your own business security. Business Unconventional is broadcast on 710 KNUS AM in Denver from 8 am to 9 am every Sunday.
This week's Security Central segment can be heard at 8:45 a.m.
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