BizFilings wants to help business owners Incorporate Your Dream^sm by providing the opportunity for one lucky business owner to win $5000 to fund a growing business.

It takes a lifetime for many individuals to learn the secrets to starting a business. For others, it might take as little as five minutes with some help from the host of Business Owner’s Toolkit radio show.

Business Owner’s Toolkit, the total know-how for small businesses, is helping bring new business wishes to life this holiday season by telling the story of how Old St Nick became the successful business owner, Santa Claus.

The story of Nick becoming Santa Claus is chronicled in, Santa’s Storybook: A Dream, A Wish and a World of Inspiration.

Anyone can start a successful business, according to Norm Brodsky, lifelong entrepreur and coauthor of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up.  The key, he said it to learn the hard lessons before you get started.

Thinking about starting a new business in the food industry? The recipe for long-term success boils down to starting with the right ingredients:

INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS AS A FOOD ENTREPRENEUR

• Vision
• Mission
• Values

DIRECTIONS: Begins with clearly articulated vision for all stakeholders; Apply customer insights to create mission; integrate company culture. Add goals and measurement. Serves: Any entrepreneur well.

Even in tough economic times, it’s possible to support entrepreneurship and alleviate poverty in the developing world this holiday season by participating in a lending group organized by Business Owner’s Toolkit.

Challenges in the current economy are leading many successful business people in corporate America away from Wall Street and back to Main Street where they can realize lifelong dreams of owning their own business.

Retail sales of all specialty (gourmet) foods are generating revenues of more than $48 billion a year, and averaging annual growth of more than 8 percent. To some, this means great opportunity. To others, it represents a formidable challenge.

Business Owner’s Toolkit, a leading online destination for business owners, today launched a new, BizCast widget to share valuable business insights, tips and news that will help business owners succeed in this challenging economy.

Many people dream their whole lives about starting a business, but never take the plunge. If you are sitting on your dreams, here are five reasons to make today the day you to start your own business.