The world is changing, and the KU
SBDC is changing with it. In
today's economy and environment,
entrepreneurs are searching for new
outlets of business and
communication.
Starting this month,
Success Connection is
reverting to its original format as
a traditional newsletter.
In September 2008,
all of your favorite authors-
Annmarie Kelly, Michael Fischer, Dan
Goldberg,
Kathi Kuzo and Lynn VanDyke, along
with many others, will appear in the
debut issue of the
new KU SBDC
E-JOURNAL.
Click on the news link at the right
for
more information!
-Success
Connection Editor
"It takes a lot of courage to
release the familiar and seemingly
secure to embrace the new. But there
is no real security in what is no
longer meaningful. There is more
security in the adventurous and
exciting, for in movement there is
life,
and in change there is power."
-Alan Cohen
Do you have your own
success story?
Would you like to
share your business
triumphs with the
entrepreneurial
world? Here's your
chance!
Click
here to
submit your story
todayt!
To download a printer friendly version
of this month's entire newsletter,
click here.
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Recycling Oil Filters and Feeding
Calves-
All In a Day's Work at Lucas Lane
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Your car rolls over the gravel path
of the Lucas family homestead and
you take in the scenery of the 75
acre Berks County farm. The light
speckles through the tree lined
drive, horses graze in the meadows
and a 55-gallon barrel full of used
oil filters quietly stands in front
of the barn at the end of the
drive. Wait, oil filters on a
farm? Not only is Lucas Lane Inc. a
working veal farm, but also an oil
filter recycling facility. Oil
filters of all sizes, from
lawnmowers to locomotives find their
way to this pastoral setting, where
David Lucas and his family recycle
them for scrap steel and waste oil.
With help from the KU SBDC, Lucas
Lane Inc. has grown to servicing a
60-mile radius of Reading, PA and
has landed a contract with the
National Guard.
Want to read more? Click
here to find out how
Lucas recycles his oil filters, what
he does with all the reclaimed waste
oil and scrap steel and how the KU
SBDC has played a part in it all.
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SBDC News
For more information
about any of the following news
items, click on the news link near
the bottom of this column.
-The new
KU SBDC
E-JOURNAL:
The new, interactive
E-JOURNAL, is founded on the
three M's of business basics- Money,
Marketing and Management.
The new E-JOURNAL will be based
around new communications concepts
embracing the entrepreneurial
community, called
Web
2.0, coined by Internet
culture gurus at O'Reily Media.
Click on the news link below to find
out more!
-New Learning Opportunities:
The
Pitch is a business planning
Webinar based on one of the
bestselling books for small business
by
Guy Kawasaki,
"The Art of the Start."
-New
FREE online classes available
NOW
from the KU SBDC!
2 online learning courses in
international marketing and 2
courses in government marketing are
now available! Click
here for more information!
Also available from the SBA, an
online course on federal contracts!
Click
here for more information!
-The KU SBDC Recently
updated its website, and has been
converted into a portal for electronic
learning. Now the site is easier to
use, with a new Google-based search
engine, and more direct links so you get
the help your business needs, faster!
Click
here
to see for yourself!
-Click this
news link to read more
about the news items above!
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