How we can help you make a Good Living.

How we can help you make a Good Living!

What's a Good Living? Work that delights your customers, brings you a good income, an opportunity to learn and grow, and enough free time, Here's how we can help you now:

Business After Hours Monday-- The Startup Show. 5 to 6 p.m. Mountain on TradioV.com

We help you make it your best week yet, connecting you with people, information and ideas on TradioV.com, originating from the Five Points Media Center, 2900 Welton on the 3rd Floor here in Denver. Join us in the studio (bring your own chips) and we'll put you in front of a microphone.

Each Monday at 5 p.m. go to http://TradioV.com, call toll free 1-866-378-8327 to be on the show.

IDEA Cafe Startup Workshops

IDEA Café Startup Workshops (click) have been held here in Denver for nearly 20 years. 5280 Magazine has said they have “infused Denver with an entrepreneurial spirt.” Speakers are invited to share their startup experience and we brainstorm. One of the primary reasons for the creation of your Small Business Chamber is to develop ways to help local chambers of commerce and other groups to offer IDEA Café workshops each Friday afternoon across Colorado and perhaps beyond.

New! Online IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop

Online IDEA Café Startup Workshop(click) is a new member orientation, it’s intended to help you understand more about your Small Business Chamber and how we can help you, and how you can help us start a new group at a time and place that will work for you. We share startup experience and brainstorm.  Limited to the first 12 to RSVP each week. 2 to 3 p.m. Mountain each Monday or by special arrangement with your local chamber or other group..You'll get an access code when you RSVP.

"Master Mind" Groups

Franklin Circle Peer Advisory/Learning Groups (click) are based on the group Ben Franklin started in 1727. We encourage everyone to form a group with their neighbors and friends.

As a wise friend told me, “stay willing, keep making contacts. When you are right and the time is right, Providence will provide.” That advice has served me well over the last 20 years as I’ve brought your Small Business Chamber to this point, and I know it will help you too as you create a group of companions.

In life, sometimes we need help to get back on our feet after a setback. There is lots of help available through religious groups, medical resources, 12-step and other self help groups. But just getting back on our feet is not enough. Recovery without works is dead!

When I played football, we were taught to hit, recover, and then hit again. To recover and not hit again was worthless, we might as well have just stayed down until the whistle blew.

It's like that in life. Yes, when you get knocked down, get back up. But that's not enough. Recovery with out work is dead! Getting together with your Franklin Circle can help you do just that. Click the link at the top of this section and get on started your self, or contact us if you'd like help finding one that's forming now.

Annual Ben Franklin Birthday Party

January 17 Annual Meeting and Ben Franklin Birthday Celebration. What we do will depend on how much money we can raise for renting a meeting place, bringing in speakers, etc.

If you let us know you are coming now, it’s free, no contribution is required to RSVP at this time. This may change December 26 when we announce our final plans, so RSVP now, and invite your friends! (click here)

By no later than our Annual Meeting January 17 we intend to have formed a board of directors who will have adopted by-laws. If you’d be willing to serve on the board and/or to do pro bono work to help us get this started, let’s get together soon. Please give us a call.

Our mission is your success!

What do we intend to accomplish with all this? With your help as you start and grow your successful business, we intend to preserve and strengthen the grassroots in business and politics, the voice of the common person.

If you want a fresh start in your work, or if you are a consultant, accountant, lawyer or other professional who works with people who want a fresh start, we hope you’ll join us.

To join, just "Like" our Facebook Page (click here), post an introduction of your self, then visit from time to time to comment on what others have posted and to share links to online resources you've found helpful.

If you have any questions, or if you’d like to volunteer or contribute to what we are doing, please give me a call or post your question here if it is something everyone might want to know.

Life is short, but it’s only too late if we don’t start now!

How may we be of service to you? Call me!

John

John S. Wren, MBA+
Founder and temporary CEO, Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
IDEA Café Startup Workshops * Franklin Circle Peer/Learning Groups * Jesuit Guide Sharing Groups
www.SmallBizChamber.org   Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber
(303)861-1447 or John@SmallBizChamber.org

Why has John Wren been working on this for nearly 20 years?

 I want my grandkids to have the same opportunity that my dad did. I’ll be writing about his on my personal blog starting soon. If you’re interested, check out www.JohnWren.com

To understand my motivation you might want to attend another group I started. You don’t have to be Catholic or even just Christian to come and share your recent experience with your higher power at our weekly Jesuit Guide Sharing Group, and if you like it you might want to start one yourself. This is outside our Small Business Chamber and participation in no way is necessary for what we do to be helpful, much as Richard Bolles handles the issue of his faith in his book What Color is Your Parachute.)

Another group I enjoy is Denver Socrates Cafe, join us if you enjoy good conversation.

Thanks to Marilynn Force and Karl Dakin for their encouragement in this, and thanks especially to St. Ignatius of Loyola, who Marilynn calls the world’s first economic developer! For more about the Ignatian pedagogy of decision making and startup, I highly recommend the very readable and enjoyable New York Times best selling book, James Martin’s Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Anything.