Standing Out

I’m sitting @ Panera on Peach - I love Panera: great coffee, yummy CinnaCrunch bagels and free Wi-fi. Who could ask for anything more?

Online social networking can never replace the real, face-to-face interaction of traditional business networking. I would love to have an Office Nomads here in Erie or just a place to go on a regular basis and connect with other small business owners in Erie. I know that there are many.

If you’re in Erie and you read my blog, drop me a line via the contact form - I’d love to hear from you and connect!

***psst - a great way to “meet” online LOCALLY is Biznik - strange, but true - there is finally an online network that is locally-based…

I’ve come across more than two handfuls of articles that say that small business owners are ones to haphazardly chase after new ideas, start a million things at once, try this & try that, waste money going in a million different directions, etc. We want to make money. We want to change the world with our sweet new idea. We want everyone to love and adore us for making their lives, their office, their relationships or their future that much better. But once we get our brilliant idea going a bit, our wandering eyes are distracted by that guy’s brilliant idea, and so our wheels get turning to try and figure out how we can make that successful, too.

Like it or not, these theories about the behavior or small business owners and entrepreneurs are actually very true. As entrepreneurs, it’s in our DNA to try new things, discover new ideas and work them out, and to try, try again.

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