What compels us to change? Is it motivated by selfishness? Peer pressure? A deep dissatisfaction of the status quo?

In my life, the driving factor has been what I would call an internal force that knocks on my heart and mind’s door and asks the question, “Marty, have you done your best?”

Then I would also ask the same question of our business teams, “is this our best?”

The answers to these simple questions many times would drive me to some action that would stimulate change.

I believe Fayetteville is asking this same question. Is this our best? I had often wondered why a market the size of Fayetteville did not have a business publication like many of the other major metros across the country. I had also experienced, firsthand, the value proposition a business-focused publication brings to a community's economy. (This small startup has already created three new jobs - and counting.)

So ... I prayed, and the good Lord opened (and shut) doors - and here we are!

I truly believe change is coming for the Fayetteville business community.

Good change. Needed change. I want to be a part. I want to do my part. I believe the vast majority of business people also want to do their part. I want to be open to change.

I want to learn and hear different points of view. I plan on doing my best to help the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal do its part to help make things better for business and Fayetteville.

I’m not a wordsmith. I’m a doer. Come do some business with us!

Let’s work hard and “get another gear” to make the Fayetteville business community a place of doers and not talkers.