Archive for the ‘Community Renewal’ Category
WHY you do what you do
You own a business, you sell things to customers and meet their needs. You probably want to sell more things to your customers and get new customers to sell even more things. But why? To make more money? To get rich? To not have to worry about your finances anymore? To increase your status in [...]
Spam to the world, the Adverts have come!
I recently attended a holiday event with my family, a 2+ mile drive through professionally constructed Christmas lights in Spanaway WA; nice enough for what it was, but it was the advertising that got to me.
Littered throughout the drive were large banner signs for local companies. They were sponsorships the event has sold [...]
The Power of Giving
Short Post today, working on a longer one for tomorrow.
I found a great book on www.chrisbrogan.com called The Power of Giving that basically talks about the main themes I try to espouse here.
Giving to others will enrich you in more ways than you know and this book goes into detail about how that works.
Look at [...]
What Everyone Ought to Know about Business and Charity
Your local community is crying out for business to come to its aid, and it is not that difficult to answer the call.
Yesterday I highlighted TOMS Shoes as a worthwhile example of how a company can integrate donation into its business model. Sure, it’s easy for them since they started that way, but how do [...]
Bringing light (and shoes) to those in need
A recent post by Guy Richards reminded me that the ideas in my previous post are not novel by any stretch of the imagination.
Tom’s Shoes has been living the lifestyle of giving since it’s inception. For those who don’t know, for every pair of shoes bought from Tom’s, they give a pair away to a [...]
Can You Change the World?
I’ve got a radical idea.
That we are at our most prosperous when we invest increased wealth to directly impact and renew communities.
Imagine if we used our prosperity for the good of others. Imagine if we live only with what we need and use the rest to give back to those who need our help the [...]
Enlivent is launched!
This is a new blog for a new world.
Now, more than anytime in history, we have the opportunity to change the world faster than ever. Every small business owner, employee, corporate middle man, and lonely stay at home mom has access to the means to produce and produce abundantly.
Now it is time to use that [...]