One of the things about owning your own business is the opportunity to expand, and create growth. If a business stays stagnant, or the same, in essence, you end up working a “job” for yourself. Did you create a job for yourself, or are you running a business?

Where will your business be in 3 years, 5 years or 10 years? Will you be doing the same thing day after day, or will you be finding ways to grow your business.

There comes a point where you need to delegate your tasks to others, so you can continue to do other things. So many people create “jobs” for themselves, and then get stuck when things don’t change. When you grow a business, it expands, thus creating more rewards, both in monetary gains and in professional gains. Rewarding challenges are a great way to thrive.

If things are exactly the same as they were a few years ago in your business, maybe it’s time to think about a change. Growth is change, and nobody wants a stagnant business!

We’re feeling the crunch of rising fuel prices in retail outlets, as well as the grocery store. Delivering those items are getting even costlier with gas and diesel prices sky rocketing.

What about the small business that delivers local? Maybe you deliver flowers, pizza, linens or other goods. How are you coping with rising fuel costs? Do you raise your prices to make up the difference, try to find more efficient routes, or are you not changing what you do, and just cutting in other areas to make up the difference?

I’d be curious to see how you’re coping, and what you’re thinking about changing as prices continue to mount.

Have you heard of DocStoc (www.docstoc.com)? It’s a great website that will allow you to not only find and share documents, but also embed them into your site.

Take for instance, this blog which is about small business. I was able to find a document called “10 Questions to Consider When Starting a New Business”. It’s a perfect fit for this blog, and with .DocStoc I can embed it right here for you.

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How might you be able to use this great program on your company blog or website? Why not share a handbook, guide or useful tips for your customers? With DocStoc, you can embed files in different formats, whether they are .pdf, .doc, .xml or .ppt, which means it’s easy to use, no matter what program you’re writing your information into.

How do you stand out? What sets you apart from the rest? How is your business getting noticed?

Look, up in the sky, it’s…it’s….is that Mickey Mouse?

If you’re in Walt Disney World, you may happen to catch a glimpse of cloud shaped Mickey Mouse heads. In fact, pretty soon, you may start seeing other corporate logos in the sky, in cloud shaped forms.

In an interesting story, Francisco Guerra has created a way to float shaped clouds, up to 4 feet in size. Walt Disney World will be trying it out with some Mickey heads. What’s next?

Clever marketing is one thing people look for. Creative new ways to capture your attention and get their brand out there is golden.

What do you think about this new idea?