Short Free Webinar on Encore Entrepreneurship

Hello! On Friday January 13 at 1:00 to 1:30 pm SBDC is offering a half hour FREE short webinar on our coming Encore Business Builders Class. It will be really great information if you are considering an Encore enterprise. It is free, but you do need to register with Eventbrite. Here is the link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starting-an-encore-business-webinar-tickets-30732949078 Read More …

Your Business Startup

It’s time to make the leap! Traditional employment is fading fast. Now is the time to focus on your business startup For more than two decades, ‘Solopreneurship’ has quietly been on the rise. Also called, independent work, freelancing or sometimes contract work. Check out this recent article in Fast Company Magazine. Studies show that Solos make Read More …

A Tip from Jackie
Money is Just a Tool

There is so much hype and talk and emotion around money in our society that sometimes it is hard to remember that money is a tool. It is energy in a form that can be exchanged for value between disparate items. For example, I can exchange my consulting energy for your sewing energy. Also it Read More …

Is Best Beginnings Right for You?
Check Out a Free Preview of My New, Live, 7-Week Webinar Series

I love this time of year. The “back-to-school” buzz is in the air, and everyone is excited about starting fresh and really buckling to work on their dreams. That’s why I’m so excited about Best Beginnings. Best Beginnings is my new, live, 7-week webinar series. I started thinking about it when I realized that many Read More …

A Tip from Jackie
Keep Making Yourself Better

I like to talk about outsourcing the administrative tasks of your business. Think web work, mailing, research, marketing, bookkeeping, photographing items for your web site, sending newsletters, social media etc. The overall idea is that you devote the majority of your time to the things at which you are the best–your chosen work. Outsourcing gives Read More …

Deadwood, SD: A Small Town’s “Encore Career”
Oregon’s SBDC State Star Reflects on Small Business and Second Acts in the Black Hills

Greetings from from Deadwood, South Dakota! My husband and I are on a month-long road trip, and we were absolutely charmed by this stop-over. Deadwood is an old mining town, but it has totally reinvented itself for the 21st century…which is to say, it has created an inspiring encore career for itself. Today, it’s a Read More …