Misfit Playbook
It was a great day at the first day of the 2nd MisfitCon in Fargo. Here’s a couple of things I heard today: The intersection of arts and entrepreneurs make it so a community can reinvent itself. AJ Leon You have three buckets you fill in your life: Connection, Contribution and Vitality. Anyone of these…
Fargo Bound #MisfitCon
I’m headed to Fargo for the Misfit Conference 2014. It’s not a Chamber event, or a tourism event, or a marketing event. Although, it will benefit all of those activities. It is an opportunity to connect with like minded people. To talk about dreams and build working plans to enact those dreams. It’s a chance…
Sunday Update: Get Involved
What a week! I got two workouts in with Randy and I spent the weekend at JunqueFest. It was the first ever event at Wilson Brewer Park where the Chamber, Iowa Antique Network and Wilson Brewer Park partnered up to have 54 junk/recycled/upcycled/metal/wood/yard art and more vendors come for the weekend. We started on Friday…
JunqueFest Starts Today
JunqueFest is a 3 day event in Webster City, Iowa held at Wilson Brewer Park (Ohio and Superior). There will be over 50 different vendors who will be set up to sell primitive, vintage, re-purposed, up cycled, yard art, rusty, wood, architectural salvage, metal, and handmade crafts. It’s a party! Food for sale will be:…
Sunday Update: Goals and Accountability
There is great news from last week — I got four intense workouts in! That was the goal, and the goal was made. Goal setting does a couple of things: Creates focus on where you are going. You can say “I’m going to work out.” There’s no call to action there. Workout means what? How…
Facebook for Small Business
Tonight I presented to members of the Sac City Iowa community on how to use Facebook for small business. Here’s the presentation! facebook 2014
Sunday Update: A Day Late
We had storms here yesterday. Big, bad ones with lots of rain. And … I left my power cord at my mom’s. So it was a double whammy for using the laptop. Good week last week — used My Fitness Pal each day and made the cut (under calories) all but one day. And that…
Sunday Update: One Week In
Made it through the week and kept my calories in check! Have NOT had a Diet Mountain Dew, took my vitamins every day, had a protein shake every day, had GC Control every day — and I’m a week in. What does that mean, one week in? For me – it means I committed to…
Business Books
There are a lot of business books out there. Some are great, some are good and some suck. This is a list that was submitted to me by Pete Campbell from www.traveloutthere.com I agree,this is a good list. Some of the books are really really good. He’s missing a few I can think of: Small…
HERO UPDATE
PHASE TWO COMPLETE, MORE FUNDRAISING AND OPENING DATE PROJECTED Help Entertain and Restore Organization, HERO, announced today that $133,000 has been raised to Save the Webster Theater. Phase One needed $22,500 in order to purchase the building. Phase Two needed $80,000 to purchase the projector, video and sound equipment. The building is now owned by…