On April 10, 2014 The Talent Shopping Network held their fun and successful launch party at St. Pete’s favorite event space NOVA 535, catered by Crabby Bills, and supported by the Entrepreneur Social Club (ESC) and Key Person of Influence (KPI). What a great night for everyone! The weather was fabulous, the crowd was diverse and engaged, the food delicious and well NOVA 535 was as beautiful as ever!
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Localtopia, Saturday Morning Market and my Niece
Good day everyone! After a long beautiful and engaging stroll while eating, tasting, shopping and enjoying the best farmer’s market in the entire Southeastern USA, SATURDAY MORNING MARKET, we made our way over to LOCALTOPIA. Localtopia?? Well my good friend and fellow Entrepreneur Olga Bof (and her amazing crew), of Keep Saint Petersburg Local organized an all day saturday extravaganza at our lovely downtown Williams Park yesterday,

The birth of a Rock Star
‘Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste. ‘ Indeed wealth comes in many forms and you won’t be hearing any sympathy from this devil ! Living a lifetime in a job you love brings with it many stories, a wealth of lessons learned and some magical memories. As Cesare Pavese once told us, ‘We don’t remember days , we remember moments. The Birth of a Rock Star!

Make Money Selling Your Friends
Selling your friends!
In Também Consulting I offer consulting on the SuccessFactors Learning Management System. The business is a Professional Services business based entirely on relationships. It’s all about acquiring resources (people) and putting them to work. Selling your friends!
Companies involved in this work partner up and sign agreements that whichever party brings in a resource owns the relationship with that resource. The other party cannot do a direct contract with that resource. It’s clearly defined relationships.
So, what’s this ESC.com thing about, anyways?
There have been hints, rumors, and mini-conversations, but we’re far enough along at this point to really start laying out our vision for the ESC.com site. This post seeks to help clarify what our desires are, and how ESC.com can help you.
The purpose of the site is three fold:
- Coalesce our social conversation around the web into one place.
- Leverage Google authorship and other social tools to help build individual authority (the KPI program).
- Formalize our coordination of entrepreneurial events (and ESC meeting events) with the addition of an advisory board of regular members.
I’ll go through each of these three points below:

What’s the Impact of tourism here in St. Petersburg?
We all know tourists and the Dollars, Euros, Yen, Pounds, Renminbi and such that they bring to spend here add a nice punch to our local economy. But what are the latest figures?
During May 7-15, 2013, National Tourism Week will be celebrated locally to recognize the contributions the tourism industry provides through job creation in our market.
St. Petersburg/CLW is ranked as the most popular vacation destination along Florida’s west coast, with Pinellas County being recognized as the leading destination location on the Gulf Coast.

Introducing the Entrepreneur Social Club (ESC) Advisory Board
The Entrepreneur Social Club ESC Advisory Board is a group of ESC members collaborating to drive the future of the organization, both through planning and support, and in building personal and brand authority for our businesses. If you’re interested in joining the board, please email Chris at EntrepreneurSocialClub dot com or MichaelSNovilla at Gmail dot com.

What exactly is your Business Card saying?
Seven tips to creating an excellent effective business card.
How many times have you gone in your wallet and found a business card that you have no idea where it came from? Glance at it, front, back and still nothing comes to mind, so in the trash it goes. In this golden age of social networks and contact-filled cell phones, business cards are still proof that you are serious about business. They serve as badges of authenticity, an extension of your brand, and as a reminder to others that they might not need you today but they could tomorrow. Most of us are aware of the importance of business cards which is the reason why we always want to have the best card, so here are some tips courtesy of the Entrepreneur Social Club.