When Deb Brown and I spoke at the RuralX Summit, one of the ideas we mentioned was the tiny business village, where businesses pop up inside of storage sheds in Tionesta, Pennsylvania. Dylan Fulton and Camden Breitling, high school students from Miller, South Dakota, heard that idea and ran with it. Together with some supportive […]
Archives for March 2017
Plant your good news in the Brag Basket
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for March 17-19, 2017. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your […]
What’s Your Small-business Money Maker?
Question 1: What product or service in your business adds the most to your bottom line? I hope you answered that question without even needing to take a look at your financials. This may not be the product or service that necessarily provides the greatest return per item. You may sell only one a year. […]
Your secret advertising tool: empty buildings downtown as billboards
Seems like every rural downtown has a few: empty buildings or buildings used for storage. Those empty buildings are actually a potential advertising tool. Look at these examples that Vienna Lee showed me in Elkhart, Kansas. Both buildings are empty, with only the front windows used to advertise other businesses. The hardest part may be […]