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Hear This Week's 60-Second Radio Spots Honoring Small Business Owners
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Thanks to 710 KNUS AM
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Each week, at least one noteworthy small business owner is featured in a 60-second radio spot that runs Monday-thru-Friday during the day on 710 KNUS AM in Denver.
The spots celebrate entrepreneurship and our Small Business Drives America™ and Small Business Drives Colorado™ campaigns.
THIS WEEK
Alicia Vargo - Owner
Pampered Passions Fine Lingerie
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Would you like to be featured in an upcoming 710 KNUS AM / Small Business Drives Colorado™ radio spot? There is no charge and you'll reach an audience of tens of thousands of radio listeners.
Email us at editor@smallbusinessdrivescolorado.com and let us know what makes your small business distinctive. We'd love to hear from you.
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Join with small business owners, entrepreneurs, inventors and self-employed professional around the globe who read and enjoy Roy H. Williams's renowned Monday Morning Memo and hear weekly audios featuring the successful men and women who are putting into practice the lessons taught by Williams and the faculty of The Wizard Academy.
Recent Guest
Entrepreneurial talent is not confined to conventional businesses.
Nathaniel Drew is combining his musical talents with his business instincts to grow his Salt Lake Pops Studio Orchestra into a global Internet phenomenon. You will learn a lot by listening to Nathaniel - not to mention enjoying his music immensely.
Hear the segment now.
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Vectra Bank's
Bruce K. Alexander
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While politicians wrestle with the policy issues surrounding such tragedies, Dave Jabas, a recognized security expert, has published an e-book designed to immediately empower parents to better protect their children's schools and to extinguish their sense of helplessness.
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by David McInnis, acclaimed NewsMarketer
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Colorado Edition - January 30, 2013
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Creativity coupled with necessity often drive small business owners and entrepreneurs to juggle more than one unrelated startup at the same time. These 'Simultaneous Entrepreneurs' are, in many ways, just hedging their bets.
By Dean Rotbart
Editor-in-Chief
Despite what a majority of the textbooks and small business gurus recommend, many entrepreneurs and small business owners are nurturing two or more unrelated companies at the same time: Simultaneous Entrepreneurs.
It's hard enough to try to successfully advance a single enterprise. Failure rates for startups are wickedly high.
Blogging for The Wall Street Journal, Kate Mitchell co-founder of Scale Venture Partners and a so-called 'startup mentor,' recently cautioned against such dual loyalties:
"We have seen a handful of founders who are so extraordinarily talented that they can manage several of these processes in parallel, such as Elon Musk [PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX] or Jack Dorsey [Twitter and Square]," Kate writes. "For most founders, achieving the first success is still on the to-do list, so focus is still very important." Kate concludes, therefore, that more founders are "serial entrepreneurs rather than simultaneous entrepreneurs."
Kate, of course is wrong.
In an ideal world, a founder/visionary should work one vision - one enterprise - to success before venturing forth to create another.
In the real world, in which most of the entrepreneurs I meet and associate with live, that seldom is possible.
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COLUMN: LoomView Business Intelligence Report with Jake and Jeff Wilson
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A Cranberry Newswire Feature
Business Slickers: The Tale of Curly Washburn and Southwest Airlines
Each and every business, regardless of its size, has a key performance indicator that, if properly identified and pursued, will lead it to meaningful and durable financial success.
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Curly Knows Best
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In perhaps the best-remembered scene of the 1991 comedy City Slickers, starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance, crusty trail boss Curly Washburn (Palance) offers some sage advice to 39-year-old Mitch Robbins (Crystal), who is in the midst of a full-bore midlife crisis:
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Mitch: No what?
Curly: (Holding up his gloved index finger) This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh#%.
Mitch: That's great, but what's the one thing?
Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.
Palance won the Academy Award for his performance. It's a portrayal that business owners and entrepreneurs would be well advised to study.
Each and every successful business in America lives or dies based upon its own, unique, "key performance indicator" - that 'one thing' that if the owners and managers correctly identify and pursue, will drive their enterprise to meaningful and durable financial success.
What's that one thing for your business? Well, as Curly said, "that's what you've got to figure out."
Don't worry. We can help.
To illustrate the application of "the one thing" key performance indicator in business, a great role model is Southwest Airlines, which for 40 consecutive years has posted an annual profit.
Indeed, since its founding in 1967, Southwest Airlines has risen steadily, with annual revenues exceeding $16 billion, generated by more than 45,000 employees.
In short, Southwest Airlines sticks to its key performance indicator and success naturally follows.
Southwest Airlines has honed its business model such that its C-Suite executives know that every flight the airline puts into the skies is profitable. To measure and forecast their performance, all the top brass really have to know is how many flights are - and will - be airborne. Period.
Continue reading this column on CRANBERRY NEWSWIRE:
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Jake and Jeff Wilson are veteran business intelligence analysts and co-founders of LoomView Enterprises.
LoomView specializes in helping business owners transform boring bookkeeping into profitable business intelligence.
Download: Listen as Jake and Jeff discuss Key Performance Indicators
on a recent edition of The LoomView Business Intelligence Report.
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Thanks to special programs designed specifically for small business owners and entrepreneurs, Mountain
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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).
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VIDEO: Entrepreneur Christopher L. Tucker
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Allstar Casts: John Elway, Todd Helton and Other $Million Hands
Innovator Chris Tucker had absolutely no experience in the art or sports collectibles worlds. But he had an idea - to bronze the hands of famous athletes, including John Elway, Todd Helton, Larry Walker, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino,Ted Williams, Ernie Banks, Bob Gibson and Goose Gossage.
Tucker, a "Simultaneous Entrepreneur," teamed with artist Raelee Frazier, who perfected the method of making such life casts.
His company, Allstar Casts, is unique - creating museum-quality bronze life cast hands and selling them to private patrons, galleries, sports arenas and even The Smithsonian.
In this week's fast-paced Small Business Drives Colorado™ video, Tucker traces his entrepreneurial journey and the lessons it offers to anyone who may lack experience, but has plenty of vision and drive.
Chris will also be the featured guest on the February 4th edition of Monday Morning Radio, with hosts Dean Rotbart and David Biondo.
YouTube link
Visit his unique website.
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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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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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Weekly Small Business Drives Colorado™
Honoree
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Jordan Jackson
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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.
On last week's edition of Business Unconventional, Jordan Jackson, president, shared with listeners the secret to how his family business has beat back competition from giant, national security services providers.
Discover what can you learn from Jordan.
Broadcast: January 27, 2013
Length: 13 mins 50 secs
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Coming Sunday
February 3, 2013
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Business Unconventional
8 am (Mountain) - www.710KNUS.com
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It's a KVOD 99.5 FM reunion ...of sorts.
Former KVOD hosts, Betsy Schwarm and Pat McNulty, each successful, self-published authors, discuss their books and the help they received from Tattered Cover Press. Betsy and Pat, who briefly reprise their KVOD duties, are joined by John Zeck, director of business development for Tattered Cover Press.
Have you thought about self-publishing? If so, you won't want to miss this week's program.
Get published, Colorado, this coming Sunday morning on 710 KNUS AM ( www.710KNUS.com) and see why so many other business owners and professionals are turning to self-publishing.
Also This Sunday!!
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Neon Rain's Arif Gangji
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Neon Rain is one of Colorado's leading providers of expertly built web sites and custom web applications. The company and its founder, Arif Gangji, recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.
Small Business Drives Colorado™ proudly salutes Arif and Neon Rain.
Business Unconventional is broadcast on 710 KNUS AM in Denver from 8 am to 9 am every Sunday.
This week's Tattered Cover Press segments can be heard beginning at 8:05 a.m. The Neon Rain interview begins at 8:35 a.m.
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COMMUNITY: Entrepreneur Chris Tucker helps send deaf children to camp
Chris Tucker (l) and Business Unconventional host David Biondo, hang a banner for the Sertoma wine and beer tasting fundraiser in the 710 KNUS AM
Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 24th, and plan to attend a wine and beer tasting to benefit the LoDo Sertoma Club, which sends deaf children to its Field of Dreams Sports Camps (baseball, soccer, basketball, and gymnastics).
For the second consecutive year, David, a gift-musician, will be performing.
Location: Old Chicago Restaurant * 16990 E. Iliff Avenue * Aurora, CO 80013
Tickets available at the door or in advance by phoning Mike Burha at 720-435-0653.
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