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How to Start a Real Estate Brokerage Company

How to Start a Real Estate Brokerage Company

Randy Lenz - NextHome Metro Madison At one point, we have all met a real estate agent.  Maybe through an open house, a referral, or even at your local state fair.  What makes Randy Lenz stands out is his commitment to growth via doing the best for his clients.  When...

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How to Run a Successful Video Marketing Company

How to Run a Successful Video Marketing Company

Zach Nigh - Green Clock Suppose you start a business that centers around making great videos.  If you are like Zach, you do this because you have a passion for the industry and you love business.  The information age has moved into the content age. That content is...

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How to Run a Non-Profit Event Company

How to Run a Non-Profit Event Company

Sara Klemme - Madison Festivals Inc. What do you get when you combine a driven woman with a company that operates a bunch of high profile events for a popular city?  You get growth, change and some wonderful experiences in Madison, Wisconsin.  Sara Klemme is now the...

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How to Sell on Amazon

How to Sell on Amazon

Kayla Storlid - Cardbeenie Kayla is a fantastic entrepreneur.  After selling her first company, she started another company.  This time, she is in the product world, rather than the previous service world.  This is her second time on the Authentic Business Adventures...

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Selling Hope and Fear

Selling Hope and Fear

I was attending one of those U-rah-rah sessions at a trade show the other day.  You know the kind, because we have all attended them. The one where the overpaid keynote speaker talks about building up your motivation and getting you to chant stuff or just talking...

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How To Start a Design Build Remodel Company

How To Start a Design Build Remodel Company

Abe Degnan - Degan Design Build Remodel Generally speaking, contractors are often good at construction and terrible at most other facets of business.  This goes especially for communication.  Abe Degnan, owner of Degnan Design Build Remodel in Madison, Wisconsin, has...

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Hiring, Employees and Banging Your Head Repeatedly

Hiring, Employees and Banging Your Head Repeatedly

I’m not sure when it happened.  It may have been my first hire, or it may have been my most recent attempts to hire, once again, for a position with my company.  At some point, and maybe a few others, I have decided that the future of our world will soon be in peril....

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How To Start a Dog Daycare and Boarding Facility

How To Start a Dog Daycare and Boarding Facility

Greg Altman - Lucky Dog Daycare Just about everybody loves dogs.  But if you really, truly want to see a true dog-lover, meet Greg.  Greg owns Lucky Dog Daycare, just outside of Madison, Wisconsin in Sun Prairie.  He has expanded his business to have acres of room...

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How To Start a Successful Business Coaching Company

How To Start a Successful Business Coaching Company

Allison Dunn - Deliberate Directions Suppose you move across the country and decide to use the skillset you have acquired from years of working in all manner of businesses to start an executive and business coaching company.  You know no one locally, so you really...

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How Do You Fix a Failing Hotel

How Do You Fix a Failing Hotel

Jason Salus- The Hotel Fixer You cannot help but smile when you are around Jason Salus.  That is because he smiles bigger than anyone else and he is kicking serious butt wherever he lands.  Jason is known in the hotel management circles as The Hotel Fixer.  His goal...

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How to Run a Successful Band and Have a Day Job

How to Run a Successful Band and Have a Day Job

Andrew Gonzalez - Cherry Pie, the band Entertain the people.  As a band member, that is your job.  But the business side of being in a band is tough.  Plus you have a bunch of different personalities that need to get along so the band can move along.  Andrew tells us...

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How to Make Dreams Come True – Through Home Mortgages

How to Make Dreams Come True – Through Home Mortgages

Bill Quigley - Amerifirst Home Mortgage Madison Buying a house should be fun.  But there is a lot of money, a lot of paperwork and a lot that can go wrong to prevent you from getting the home of your dreams.  That is where Bill Quigley comes in.  Bill explains in this...

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The Art of Healing in Business

The Art of Healing in Business

Chandon Williams - Isthmus Wellness When you save a company in order to keep your fellow employees working in a place they love, you are bold.  When you do so and keep a cool and calm demeanor because you work in a business that requires it, that makes you versatile. ...

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How to Run an Awesome Business – Whiteboard Videos

How to Run an Awesome Business – Whiteboard Videos

Jim Herkert - Truscribe When your son-in-law shows some illustration skills, what do you do?  In Jim's case, you start a business that blossoms to become a whiteboard marketing video powerhouse and evolve it into a software company.  You make a name for yourself by...

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