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If You Aren’t Excited About It…

If you’re on the fence whether you’re excited about what you do or if the shine has worn off… pick a side and go there. It’s going to suck at times. It’s going to be exhausting at others. There’s going to be days where you look at your loved one, friend, employees, or business partner and think, “What the hell did I get myself into” and the answer to that question is the very same thing “I love what I do for a living!”

Marketing Your Business On A Shoestring Budget…

In my previous post ‘Get Your Hand Off Your Wallet And Your Head Out Of Your…*’, Terry Upton asked in her comment “What if you don’t have any money at all? What would you say to those people trying to get there business off the ground?”

Well fear not Terry, and all you trying to have your business take flight, this post is for you.

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends

Anita Campbell, Editor of Small Business Trends will be one of five panelists on the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). Her well-rounded expertise will shed light on two of the biggest challenges for small businesses –marketing and finance – as revealed in the Small Business Success Index. We asked Anita to [...]

Event Review: Social Matchbox DC

Thursday, April 2, at the Tenley Campus of American University in DC, saw another sold-out edition of the successful Social Matchbox DC networking event, headed up by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer. (See Shashi’s event preview blog post.)

Washington Post tech columnist Kim Hart has a good event writeup, which features a photo from our own Shashi [...]

Connecting Startups, Socializers and Job Seekers

Social Matchbox is organized by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer and Network Solutions is proud to sponsor this event under the Small Business Success Index umbrella. Robert says :
Social Matchbox is DC’s longest running open mic night and networking event for startup companies that are backed by angel and venture investors as well as those which [...]

SXSW Entrepreneurs: Alex Hillman of Indy Hall

On Saturday at SXSW (South By Southwest) I had the opportunity to attend the Core Conversation on Coworking given by Alex Hillman.
For those who don’t know Alex, his blog is Dangerously Awesome and his Philadelphia-based coworking space, Independents Hall or Indy Hall, was one of the first to formalize the coworking space.
The core conversation was [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: Can you use it as a way to subsidize your empty office space?

With a bumpy economic road still ahead, here at Solutions Are Power, we brainstorm about creative ways you can leverage what business resources your do have to go that extra mile. In conversations with people a trend that I believe could develop as an aspect of this struggling economy is for businesses that may have [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: Beehive Baltimore CoWorking Space Officially Opens

You might be aware that I am huge supporter of the Coworking concept and on Friday I had an opportunity to be a coworker for the day and hang my hat at the newest and from what I can research, the only Coworking space in Baltimore called Beehive Baltimore.
It is based at the Emerging Technology [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: What is it and is it for you?

Co-working or Coworking?

A word with a hypen or not one, coworking is something that conjures up thoughts of working together in an idealistic environment where we can collaborate on projects and hire those talented individuals around us to grow each other’s respective businesses.
The reality is that it is an inventive business model to help startups [...]

Interview with Andy Heifetz of Exalt Consulting Group

Andy is no stranger to software development. For the past 15 years he has worked for companies like Ernst & Young and founded the software consultancy, Avollution. Most recently, he partnered up with Otis Lee and formed Exalt Consulting. Exalt is a fast growing software solutions firm based in the DC metro area with a focus [...]