Getting up seemingly early on a Saturday morning to travel across frozen roads, slip and slide in the snow and ice to find a parking spot, and then carefully hoofing it into the building to sit around and talk business stuff with folks might seem boring to some, or useless to others, but for me it’s become a very welcome event for my business.
Serving as a deadline, each month I need to come prepared to discuss business; needs, wants, issues, what works, what doesn’t.
Serving as a sounding board, it’s where I can get openly discuss how things are going, and receive open, honest feedback.
Serving as a treat, it’s an event I can look forward to that is good for my business, and for me.
As a small business owner, there’s always a pile of challenges to overcome, more work to do than can be done in a day, and a seemingly never-ending onslaught of incoming calls, emails, text messages, letters, notices, flyers; so on and on. Every business has this, but ‘big businesses’ have offices and people to handle these things, while small business owners need to sort out how best to make that work.
My favorite part of this meeting was talking about a potential, local, solution to help many businesses that operate out of their homes have access to some of the services that larger businesses do, without having to take on the full cost of those services themselves.
My favorite part of being involved in this group is that it’s local, community driven, actual neighbors helping neighbors provide better business to our neighbors, and beyond, without the fluff and fees you find with larger ‘business networking organizations’.
If you’re a small business owner in Aurora, I dare say you owe it to yourself to join us at the Colfax Breakfast club at least twice; once to see what it is, and one more time to see the value.