Business Needs Mid-Week Happy Hour

What people, services, facilities, resources do you need to help grow your business?

The recent changes over the last few years in the world of business has opened up so many new opportunities for collaboration and working together creatively.  Will you explore those opportunities with me and your Biznik colleagues?

What might YOU need?  What needs could you or someone you know fill?

• Maybe you're putting on a workshop and need to fill seats
  
  
• Maybe you have a newsletter for a particular market, but you don't have a list to send it to
  
  
• Maybe you need office space, but you don't know where to look
  
  
• Maybe you need a dentist, chiropractor, primary care physician, mancurist, or other service provider
  
  
• Maybe you need help formatting that new brochure
  
  
• Maybe you need an accountant or a lawyer who is willing to trade or barter for services
  
  
• Maybe you want to begin marketing in a new area or target audience but have no contacts
  
  
• Maybe you have a list of contacts, but no newsletter (or you hate to write!)
  
  
• Maybe you need an accountability partner
  
  
• Maybe you need a new employee or virtual assistant
  
  
• Maybe you need a salesperson for your product or service who will work on commission-only
  
  
• Maybe you need help finding out what you need!
  

Business-As-Usual for solopreneurs and very small businesses is the go-it-alone approach.  The reasons are many:

• They think no one can do what they do as good as they can
• They think help will cost too much, or they won't be able to afford it
• They think no one is interested in bartering services
• They are afraid to ask
• They fear rejection
• They don't want to appear incompetent

Join me in releasing all that nonsense and begin to explore the possibilities.  Bring your "needs," drop them in a hat (or box or briefcase or bowl or whatever I happen to have on hand!), and we'll brainstorm together.

Life's too short to go it alone.

Besides, collaboration is A LOT more fun! :-)

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The Urban Farmer is one of Portland's newest steakhouses, located in the luxury boutique hotel (the historic Meier + Frank Building) The Nines, right across the street from Pioneer Square in Downtown Portland.

Happy Hour includes $3 draft beers, $5 wines by the glass, $2.50 martinis, and food specials for under $4.