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The Unique Meaning of Independence Day for Colorado's Small Businesses
The Centennial State, today, continues to lead the nation in small business expansion and growth with more than 630,000 firms employing over 1.1 million people.
Unlikely Earrings in the Cards
Karma Card Jewelry was started by a Greeley music teacher with the idea of making earrings from gift cards, beads, vinyl and other recycled materials.
This Flourissant-Based Brand is Repurposing Feedbags
Repurposing often begins with one's own waste stream. Caitlin Paul of Farmhouse Feedbags in Florissant started making a few tote bags from empty sacks of feed for her chickens in 2016.
Who Gives a SCRAP: Awash in Donations
The store opened their first location in Colorado Springs in 2015. It then expanded to open a second spot in Fort Collins a year later.
The Best New Shirt is an Old Beloved Shirt
Jennifer Basch uses customers' used T-shirts from breweries and sports teams to repurpose into skirts. She once crafted a scarf from 30 ties a customer inherited from her late father.
Women With a (Re)Purpose
Colorado sent nearly 10 million tons of waste to the landfill in 2017, according to the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. Meet the enterprising women are transforming that waste stream into a supply chain.
Most Powerful Salespeople 2019: Proofpoint's Tyler Murphy
Focused on strategic partnerships that can each deliver tens of millions of dollars annually, Murphy has worked to execute agreements, manage relationships and develop go-to-market Tier-1 MSPs and systems integrators.
Most Powerful Salespeople 2019: Net2Source's Ajeta Sinha
Rather than learning from books, Sinha says that the real sales education comes from from people, environment, situations, hardships and blunders.
Most Powerful Salespeople 2019: Transworld's Al Fialkovich
Fialkovich and his wife, Jessica Fialkovich, launched Transworld’s Denver office after more than a decade buying, building and selling successful businesses in the wine, spirits and retail industries in Colorado and Florida.
Most Powerful Salespeople 2019: BluSky's Kaci Franklin
Social media and the internet are changing the landscape for sales professionals, she says. "But I feel that it has impacted me the most in holding our team and myself accountable to deliver the best customer experience we can.”
New Denver Agency Seeks to Relieve Startups of Marketing Mistakes
Co-founders Chad Coleman and Steven Monetti, discovered that the traditional model for marketing and branding agencies didn’t work for smaller brands, so they set out to fix that.
Colorado Brands Focus on Sustainability at Outdoor Retailer
Outdoor Retailer expects the annual direct and indirect economic impact for all three shows - Snow Show, Retailer Summer Market and Retailer Winter Market - to be $110 million a year in Colorado.
