The Entrepreneur Evangelist

I have recently started writing a blog series as part of my work with online small business management client, WorkingPoint.

Aside from the fact that I think WorkingPoint has the best solution for small businesses, the reason I really like this series is because WorkingPoint is really making a strong statement about being a true advocate for small businesses.

I've recently re-branded my blog, from the Pragmatic Contextualist to the Pragmatic Entrepreneur. This has been a result of the enormous transition that has occurred in my life over the past year, from arriving in Austin with a plan to secure a job, to reluctantly starting a business with no focus, to getting a job and realizing that I have past the point in my life where working for someone else holds any appeal, and to finding a focus for my work as an entrepreneur and finally, truly committing to that course.

The blog series with WorkingPoint is a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of the debate that is occurring in the blogosphere. In an Information Age, the reach of the internet gives entrepreneurs access to the long tail of the economy while giving them tools (such as WorkingPoint) to manage the inner-workings of their business in ways never before possible. But there are enormous ripple-effects to this change: some of them are positive and some of them are negative. But they are all vastly different than what my parents dealt with as business owners when I was growing up.

This will continue to be part of what I explore as I write articles for WorkingPoint in this series. I won't be re-publishing the original articles here, but I will be posting the links (I am also posting them, along with any other good small business related articles Charles and I find, to our business' Facebook Fan Page -- hopefully this will help get me out of the dog house with the friends who've been annoyed at how many business-related articles I have historically posted there). And, on days when the article I write fosters even more desire for commentary, I'll add additional follow-up commentary here.

I hope you enjoy the series as much as I do. If there are topics you'd like to see me cover, please let me know. And if something I say strikes a nerve one way or another, I'd particularly love some commentary.