We are but days away from finishing up our first “Full” year in business. What a treat when I received a letter with a sticker for the front door of Business Playce listing us as a “Favorite Place”. For those of you that don’t know what it means…. here’s a little background on it. 1. […]
Come join us next week December 9th at Business Playce for an open house and networking event. Over the last year our members have established countless new business relationships, friendships and exchanged marketing and promotion ideas. Now it’s time to celebrate the end of what some consider a dismal year and hopefully the beginning of […]
It’s been a little more then a year since we opened our doors to serve the small business, solopreneur, web developer, open source, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into a ready made made mold/label. During that year we grew from our initial 1250 square feet to 2500 square feet, have made some changes and […]
Some of you know that besides nurturing and promoting Business Playce, I have a “real” job. As the co-owner of Arbotek Inc, I provide engineering sales and support to government agencies and OEMs from Virginia through New Jersey. One of my larger customers is NASA, yeah the NASA that makes rockets, satellites, etc.. In any […]
Last night we hosted our 5th “Meetup” called Business in the Burg. This group has proven to be quite dynamic, not to mention a worthy learning tool. Last night we discussed various marketing trends, what works and what doesn’t. Although our members range from a semi-conductor sales guy, to a lawyer to a web developer […]
It’s funny that before I opened Business Playce, I just kind of wandered through life, doing my job, selling semi-conductors, writing reports, dinners with clients, and then start over again the next day. Since opening Business Playce it’s kind of changed my focus and the way that I interact with people. I have never really […]
Some of you are aware that thanks to Erin of Get Fresh Labs and Girls with Goals we are having a Wii tournament, Pizza Party, Idea Fest tomorrow around noon at Business Playce.
Do you have an elevator pitch? Do you know what one is? My definition of an elevator pitch is a quick 15-30 second overview of you, your business, your next great idea, the one thing you want someone to remember about you.
On some of the coworking message boards, there has been recent discussions on coworking in Suburbia vs: Urban settings. Can coworking work in a bedroom community, or does it require the density offered by a city and enjoyed by spaces like Independents Hall and Citizen Space?
I am without a doubt a serious a slave to my mobile phone. I typically use in excess of 2000 minutes per month, I receive/reply to 150+ emails per day on my phone, post 10-30 times per day to Twitter, send 10-100 text messages, send receive 100s of AIM messages and do dozens of mobile […]