A person emailed me about small town retail development a while back. I recommended he talk to Mandy Vavrinak and listed her email address. He emailed back, asking for more information about her. I thought to myself, “What more could he need?” That’s me with Mandy Vavrinak,At the 2011 Social Media Tulsa Conference. If he’d […]
Archives for July 2012
A snapshot of good news in the Brag Basket
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one July 27-29, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. I’ll be at a photo event thisweekend, so I dug up thisclassic basket photo.(CC) by SaltGeorge Don’t hold back because of […]
Another Shop Local resource
If you’re running a Shop Local or Buy Local campaign in your small town, you should get your hands on a new resource from AMIBA. AMIBA is the American Independent Business Alliance. They’ve partnered with American Express OPEN to print up a 12-page color magazine. It includes “a thorough introduction” to organizing an effective campaign, […]
You need a mobile friendly website
In a small town, you might think everyone already knows about your business or your well-known tourism attraction. You might think you don’t need a website at all, or that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a mobile-friendly website. You’d be wrong. You have new residents, people who have never needed your service before, […]