As we ring in 2013, we toast the infinite possibilities of the coming year.
At Be Inkandescent business magazine, we are also celebrating the start of our fourth year as the national go-to business magazine for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.
Since we launched the magazine in January 2010, our readership has quadrupled, and our advertising sales have soared. As a gift to our readers, we made easier to read the 800+ articles we’ve published to date by adding a new SEARCH page.
We are profoundly grateful to all of the readers who have supported us, and to you we raise a flute of Barefoot Bubbly—the brand founded in 1986 by our January Entrepreneur of the Month, Michael Houlihan. With his business and domestic partner Bonnie Harvey, they sold to Gallo in 2005. What is their recipe for success? Scroll down for more.
Also in this issue:
A Toast to Creativity
- Are you ready to grow your business in 2013? Whether you need more employees—or a new job that’ll let you express your creativity—be sure to check out our new JOBS page.
- Do you buy your wine because you like the artistic wine label? If so, you aren’t alone. Here are six of artist Michael Gibbs’ favorites. What’s your favorite wine label? Send us a photo, and we’ll post it on our social media pages. The first three who respond get a free, 30-minute PR consultation!
- Want to teach your kids—and employees—to think creatively? Don’t miss educator Dr. Carol Horn’s insights into the Power of Colorful Thinking.
- Are you creative with your ethics? You might want to reconsider that if you’re a parent, according to our senior editor and Parenting columnist, Kathleen McCarthy, who takes us inside ethicist Randy Cohen’s book, Be Good.
- Talk about a creative way to network. Authors David Bruce Smith, and GWU English professor Faye Moskowitz, put their heads together to create “Jewish Literature Live” — an undergrad course that introduces students to some of the most famous Jewish writers, literally.
- That’s not all! Our columnists also offer insights into how to: time your retirement right, avoid 5 podcast mistakes, recover from a hangover, care for your car this winter — and harness your financial power in 2013, the Year of the Snake.
We wish great prosperity to you and your company in 2013, and in hopes of inspiring you, we leave you with this idea for a New Year’s resolution from Benjamin Franklin: “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
Here’s to your indelible success! — Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, InkandescentMagazine.com • founder, TheInkandescentGroup.com • president, InkandescentPR.com
“A Toast to Creativity,” illustration (above) by MichaelGibbs.com
