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Brag Basket is for sharing good news Posted: 24 Jul 2014 11:12 PM PDT Photo by Carol on Flickr, of Spencers Farm Shop, Wickham Fruit Farm, Wickham St Pauls, Essex. The Brag Basket is open! This one is for July 25-27, 2014. Bring your good news to share with everyone. What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your undying love for rural places How do you join in? Below this post is the comment section. Add your brag there. If you are reading this by email, just reply to the email with your brag. I'll add it to the comments. Don't like to brag? Just share some good news for yourself or a friend. Do you have to be from a small town? Well, no, not really. Just don't make it an ad. I delete the ads that people stick in here. If you talk more about the people involved than the things, you'll be fine. It's a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.   New here? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates.

You Just Gotta Ask! Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:17 PM PDT George Johnson Anyone in business or thinking about going into business has a million questions. At least that was my experience and continue to hear it repeatedly from business owners. There are so many things that have to be done and so little time to do them. Plus you didn’t start your business to understand the complexities of taxes or to understand the best business structure for your situation or even to know were to go for consumable supplies or the best places to find employees. Adding to this dilemma, as a startup, you rarely have a lot of excess cash floating around where you can just ask someone. You are in business because of a passion. You aren’t in business because you love the search for suppliers. Your background didn’t prepare you for the variety of questions that face you. So what happens? Quite often time is spent chasing answers. This isn’t what the owner wants to do nor does it use the skills and abilities they bring to the table. So what can be done? The answer is simple. George Johnson, owner of George Paul’s Vinegar, offers it in this short video. Ask for advice and help. George notes that there are agencies available to help answer questions such as Cooperative Extension, Small Business Administration, http://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/osbdc/resources/11409 and SCORE. He notes that these resources are mostly free. Getting help can be done with networking and engaging with other business owners and with agencies and individuals focused on helping small business owners. If you need help, take the first step – ASK!! If you would like to participate in future chats (just 15 minutes in length), check out: powerofbusiness.net

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