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Hi! I'm Kelly Berry - your growth generator!
I run business owner roundtable groups and provide market research to help small businesses grow. My focus is on Second Stage Businesses - you already exist, have had some success - and now you're figuring out how to grow and scale. Check out my monthly written blog and monthly video for content relevant to you and your situation!
Find the latest blog post on my website - The Simplest Advice is the Hardest to Follow - or read it below. Created by ChatGPT 5.2 Simple = Hard Sometimes the simplest recommendations are the hardest to follow. Perhaps you are familiar with some of these simple words of advice? Adults should spend 20 minutes per day exercising, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. When it comes to diet, we should “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants,” says best-selling author...
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Check out the latest blog post below - or find it on my website: Cheers to the Everyday Heroes Everyday Heroes Pick up nearly any business journal these days, and you’ll find stories about impressive ‘get rich quick’ type entrepreneurs: $85.1 billion in US VC funding in just Q3 of 2025! $192.7 billion in funding for AI technology in 2025 240,000 crypto millionaires – up 40% from 2024 An Influencer market worth around $30 billion, including TikTok famous folks with millions of followers. It’s...
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Check out this blog post on my website: "Time to Channel Your Inner Bigwig?" - or read below! Time to Channel Your Inner Bigwig? Big vs Small A question for all you small business owners out there – how many of you have previously worked for a very large corporation? And how many of you would go back there again and no longer be your own boss? Companies of 1000 or more employees employ 14 percent of the total U.S. workforce according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In contrast, U.S....
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Check out my latest blog post below, or read it here. Are you a T or an F? How important is your personality to the success of your business? Hey there, my fellow business owners, I have a quick question for you today. Are you a T or an F? No, this is not some sort of strange True or False Quiz. I’m talking about the Myers-Briggs Personality Types. Thinking vs Feeling More specifically, when making decisions, do you focus more on logic (Thinking) or personality (Feeling)? There is no one...
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Check out my latest blog post below - or find it on my website. Glue Stick Guy: Right Person Right Spot In my second job after college, I worked in the Quality Assurance division of a manufacturing plant for a giant international corporation. This was my first experience with the world of manufacturing, and it was fascinating to learn my way around the plant and watch how our food products were produced (using the optimized recipes I created), canned and packaged for transport across the US,...