Bob Foster's Blog » obsession http://bizmaverickblog.com Helping small businesses get started and grow. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Small Business for Real http://bizmaverickblog.com/small-business-for-real/ http://bizmaverickblog.com/small-business-for-real/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:02:45 +0000 Bob Foster http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=450 If you want to see small business at its finest—check out this video.

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Notice the passions this business owner has—he loves his business, he loves his customers, he supports other small businesses, he tries to stay away from unhealthy products, he rejects unhealthy packaging, he is passionate about the environment (and points out the hypocrisy of governmental environmental rules)…and on and on. This entrepreneur could be the poster boy for small business.

How well do you fit this standard?

]]> http://bizmaverickblog.com/small-business-for-real/feed/ 2 Hope in the Midst of Chaos http://bizmaverickblog.com/hope-in-the-midst-of-chaos/ http://bizmaverickblog.com/hope-in-the-midst-of-chaos/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:51:41 +0000 Bob Foster http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=146 This is a song from an upcoming documentary, produced by Mark Johnson, the founder of “Playing for Change: Peace Through Music.” Mark is the kind of person I envision when I speak of a “small-business person”—as are the musicians playing for change. Many of you have viewed this before, but I would like to share it here again:

A small business does not have to make mountains of money—it may not make much at all, but it does have to be founded upon vision, obsession, purpose, and commitment. Mark and his team have all these things, and I believe that small-business people everywhere should take a look at what he is doing and learn a lesson from this remarkable entrepreneur.

If you want to really know what vision, obsession, purpose, and commitment looks like, take a look at the following interview by Bill Moyers. It is 11 minutes long, and worth spending every second.

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