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• Confessions of a Startup Junkie
  I admit it, I am a startup junkie. I absolutely love spending time with entrepreneurs and inventors. New business owners with enthusiasm and great ideas bring energy to a room that can’t be matched. That was definitely true  as Lafayette Tech Hub hosted a Startup Weekend Feb 10 – 12. A small, but very productive group of would-be entrepreneurs […]
• MTFW Talking about Entrepreneurship
  Hamilton County is a great place to start a business with a strong economy and great support from local government. It is also home to the Entrepreneur Advancement Center, a relatively new 501C3 focused on fostering economic development and an entrepreneurial mindset in Hamilton County. With programs ranging from a high school business plan competition, rura […]
• LinkedIn, Really!
  I’ve had a profile on LinkedIn for years. I thought of it more as a way of organizing my contacts than as a business-building tool. This was especially true as Facebook opened up to everyone and Twitter emerged on the social scene.  These sites were more interactive, more interesting and more fun. I underestimated the […]
• The Secret to Outsourcing Your Marketing
  At Roundpeg, we work with companies who want to outsource some portion of their marketing. Maybe they have a marketing person but that person doesn’t have graphic design skills, or maybe they don’t have a marketing department at all and need someone to take over all their marketing efforts. Whatever their reason for needing outsourced […]
• Your Grandmother is on Facebook
  Every week I have the same conversations with business owners who target affluent consumers age 55+. They tell metheir clients are not on Facebook or other social networking sites. As a matter of fact,  they don’t really use the Internet. Their adament response leads me to say: Really? 800 million people and none of them are […]