[Special guest author Laura Girty lives in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and works for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in community development. She has kindly contributed two articles she wrote for the ODOC Developer newsletter.] A popular movie a few years ago, Pay It Forward, was based on the thought that if a group of people did […]
Archives for December 2006
Resource: Improving the odds of success for bakeries and other businesses
Bakeries are common small town businesses. Several have come and gone in my own small town. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? They come and they go. How do you make a success of a small town bakery? Isabel Isidro has a whole list of resources for you, and a few suggestions of her own. […]
Tool: Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)
Another tool to make your small business competitive from anywhere on earth. (Found long ago from Rex Hammock, via: Dave Winer, but you still probably haven’t heard of it.) Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a new program that makes delivering your Pro Merchant Program and WebStore orders a snap. You send your new and used […]
Idea: Use memberships to support your business
Are you the smart person who will adapt this idea to your own small town small business? An independent book seller is using memberships to support her business. Read about it (or listen to it) at Marketplace. SCOTT JAGOW: The bookstore chain Borders turns in its latest profit report today. Ho-hum, about $840 million in […]