Every week, I open a new Basket. I call it the Brag Basket, but it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. I started this so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate a friend. How can that change it all? By inspiring one person, by motivating you to achieve something new, […]
Archives for February 2010
How Suzy sold me a muffin with 6 lessons
Suzy and Tracie make bread in a little strip mall in Mishawaka, Indiana. They have a franchise with Great Harvest Bread Company. They give you free slices to sample. (Apple Scrapple is very good.) They are like lots of bread stores in lots of towns.Their store/bakery is only a couple miles from our daughter’s college, […]
Geeks and Entrepreneurs converge in Oklahoma
Last year at the Oklahoma Entrepreneurship Conference, we had two people tweeting: me and @stargardener. When we announced the hashtag we were using for the event, we got the oddest reactions. We had a tweetup, with just the two of us, and it was great. And the brand-new-at-the-time @OKCCoCo was there. This year, there were […]
What do customers want on tourism websites
Our crack research staff (my husband) caught a discussion thread about tourism websites. This one happened to be on a hunting safari forum, but there are lessons for anyone’s tourism website.(If you don’t like hunting, or hunting pictures, don’t click through: here is the original hunting discussion thread.) A hunting and tourism operator asked the […]