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Effective MarketingLearning from Others: Successes and FailuresOpportunity Knocks storiesPlanning and Managing for Growth

A brand is the face and personality of a business, and because “you never get a second chance at a first impression,” it is important to nail down your brand identity and make a lasting impression on your audience from the first interaction. But what if you don’t nail it? 

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Developing Good Business and Management SkillsOpportunity Knocks storiesSmall Business

What is it “OK” to do at OK (Opportunity Knocks)? Before being bold. Before taking risks. Before embracing leadership. Before all of that, the members of our executive peer mentoring group say the most important thing to do when working with their peers to become better leaders of their business

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EntrepreneurshipFinanceLearning from Others: Successes and FailuresOpportunity Knocks stories

Listen. Advise. Review. Repeat. This may sound like an Opportunity Knocks facilitator’s opening remarks, but in fact it is not–it is the advice of another organization in Central Oregon that focuses on growth and financial acceleration of the local business community: Miller Ferrari Wealth Management. With a goal to help

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Central Oregon television broadcast marketing leader, Michele O’Hara takes the helm at Opportunity Knocks. Bend, Ore. (August 19, 2019) Opportunity Knocks (OK), the premier leadership and organizational development group in Central Oregon, announced today that they have hired broadcast media marketing leader, Michele O’Hara, formally of Zolo Media & Central

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Meet Board Member Karen Douglas!  When and why did you join OK? I joined OK in January of 2017 as a board member.  I had just left a 19 year stint in the media industry and was looking to reinvent myself professionally but also to expand my engagement within the

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Welcome to our newest OK Facilitator, Geoff Clark!  Geoff is new as a co-facilitator of OK 19, but he isn’t new to OK at all! Here’s Geoff’s story: When and why did you join OK? I originally joined OK 4 back in 2000 and at that time we had Jim

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