Even national retail chains can borrow some local connections. The Shops at Target are a new type of collaboration, taking products from small shops, “the shops we stumbled upon and couldn’t help but fall in love with” and putting them in Target stores around the country for six-week runs. And not just stacking them in, […]
Archives for August 2013
Brag Basket celebrates the U.K.
The Brag Basket is traveling the world to celebrate all the places you, the people who read Small Biz Survival, come from. This time, we’re celebrating our readers in the U.K. The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one August 9-11, 2013. What good news […]
One downtown building gives life to many new retail stores
Guest post by Cathy Lloyd, The Village In the summer of 2007, I had an idea to help the state of retail on the square in downtown Washington, Iowa. Since Wal-Mart came to town in the ‘70s, there had been a steady decline in the number of retail businesses in the downtown area. I hoped […]
You can’t market your history in tourism, unless you let your visitors get their hands dirty
Visitors don’t want to LOOK, they want to DO. People are looking for things to do, not just things to look at, tourism expert Roger Brooks said. That’s why it’s so hard to market your history in tourism. You have to find ways to make people involved in the experience of that history. Visit Indiana […]