Small Business Ideas

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Steves Small Biz Blog

• www.stevebizblog.com

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About Steve

• Steve is a seasoned entrepreneur. His first
  foray into the world of small business came as an
  Invisible Fencing dealer, where he operated the
  business on a part-time basis. For the next two
  years he worked on a business plan, waiting for
  the right opportunity to present itself.
• Steve founded Horizon Interactive, a
  documentation and training company, and became a
  vendor to his old employer. Over the next few
  years Steve and his partners executed the
  business plan and grew the business to over 3
  million in sales. Horizon Interactive was
  acquired by Interleaf, a publicly held company
  out of Massachusetts, in 1999.
• Steve was offered the position of VP of
  Operations, where they acquired two more
  businesses like Horizon Interactive. The company
  grew the services side of the business from a
  combined 8 million in revenue to over 32
  million in sales during the next two years.

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• Interleaf was acquired by Broadvision, a company
  out of California during the height of the dot
  com bubble, for their XML engineers on their
  product side of the business.
• Steve and a former business partner acquired the
  assets of Interleafs service business in 2001.
  They operated the business for a few more years
  until they sold it in 2003. Steve essentially
  retired from working for money while he was in
  his early 40s.

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• Being a serial entrepreneur, Steve has started
  and still operates a business focused on real
  estate, one focused on oil and gas, and also a
  financial advisory company designed to help high
  net-worth investors understand the ins and outs
  of investing in oil and gas direct participation
  programs.
• Steve has volunteered his time since 2003 as a
  mentor for SCORE, a local organization dedicated
  to helping entrepreneurs, and has acted as their
  Chapter Chairman for several years. He is also a
  member of the Colorado Springs Small Business
  Development Center (SBDC) advisory board, and has
  acted as a counselor since 2003. In 2012 Steve
  acted as the interim director of the SBDC while
  they conducted a national search for a permanent
  director.

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Searching for Small Business Ideas?

• Steves Small Biz Blog is a business blog
  intended to provide all the information, tips and
  ideas on how to start a new business. If you have
  been searching for small business ideas for long,
  Steve Biz Blog is the right place for you. You
  can find the required tips for free. It is rather
  a resource of all stuff useful for entrepreneurs
  starting a new business. Read the blog to get
  complete guidance on how to operate small
  business.

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Need Tips on Starting a Small Business?

• If you having looking to find useful tips on
  how you can start a small business effectively
  and efficiently, Steve Biz Blog is the right
  place for you. It is a business blog intended to
  focus on providing informational tips, tricks and
  ideas on starting a small business. Visit the
  blog and get all guidance you need for initiating
  your own business.

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Want to Learn Small Business Marketing Tips
?

• Steve Biz Blog is the place where you not
  only find information on how to start a business
  but get tips as well on how to market it and
  increase the sales. The blog provides excellent
  information on small business marketing to all
  those entrepreneurs who are passionate about
  their businesses. Steve is a highly experienced
  businessman and has put all his efforts on
  providing the relevant information to all those
  interested in making a mark in the small business
  industry.

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Access Resources Tools

• Steve Biz Blog is the place where you can
  get all the resources and tools required to start
  a business. You can find free videos and articles
  intended to provide guidance on Small Business
  Advertising and Small Business SalesVisit the
  link http//www.learnaboutoilandgas.com/BizBlog/re
  sources/
• for worksheets and templates may be freely
  downloaded and are teaching tools employed by
  Steven Imke.

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