Having a winery is not a glamorous job! That’s what Con Pekrul, owner of Plain View Winery, says. Pekrul started making wines with his father as a hobby. Though it was based at his home with no traffic at all, it kept growing. He started to plan relocating. A building in nearby Lahoma, Oklahoma, (population…
“It can be done. It can be done with limited means. It can be done from a humble background,” Tommy Hudson said. “I am just a guy that had an idea and put a plan together and sought the right advice and enough advice to convince myself really that it could be done.” Hudson started…
by Susan Murphy http://suzemuse.wordpress.comhttp://www.geekgrls.com Businesses are like babies. They are the culmination of experience, effort and love. They are created with much care and consideration. The first 3 months of life, a business demands all of your time, pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will be sleep deprived and stressed,…
BizzFlip has boiled down some wisdom from a series of entrepreneur interviews. One quote that caught my eye came from Christine: I had tried to start businesses on the side for years, but because Ididn’t NEED them to succeed, they didn’t. When I quit my job and had noother options, I knew that I was…
Liz Strauss says you’re only a stranger once. She calls herself a 65th Crayon, a Saloon Keepers Daughter. She says her brothers Angelo and Pasquale pay people to like her. She calls people SOB, or BAD Bloggers, and they like it. She’s a character, fun to be around. And she’s a sharp, smart business person….
Lynn sold her business. She had to. Her husband? Lung cancer, early retirement, no more insurance. So she needed a real job with real benefits. It’s not that she didn’t have a real job. She taught dance. For fifteen years she ran Lynn’s Academie of Dance. But that’s not enough of a real job to…
They were giving us furniture. For our church. Beautiful furniture. The kind of furniture you find in hospitals or coffee stores or waiting areas in malls. It wasn’t because we are a church, really, but because five days out of seven they use part of our parking lot. And they have meetings in our building…
I live and work in a town of just about 10,000 people. Fairfield, Iowa. Wonderful town. Quirky, interesting, small, remote, quiet (except for 35 trains that rumble through daily). County seat for a county with maybe 12-13,000. We’re 4 hours from Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis. We’re 1 hour from any town of more…
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