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Shop your good news in the Brag Basket

By Becky McCray

Basket Shop Photo by Joel Kramer

. Original Basket Shop Photo by Joel Kramer.

 

The Brag Basket is open! This one is for June 12-14, 2015. Bring your good news to share with everyone.

What can you do in the Brag Basket?

  • introduce yourself
  • share some great news from this week
  • congratulate a friend
  • applaud for each other
  • confess your undying love for rural places

How do you join in?

Below this post is the comment section. Add your good news there.

Reading this in your email? Hit reply.

Don’t like to brag? Just share some good news for yourself or a friend.

Just don’t make it an ad. I delete the ads that people stick in here. If you talk more about the people involved than the things, you’ll be fine.

It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.

My brag: 

Deb Brown and I frequently hear from small towns that their downtown is dead, or just feels anything but lively. Rather than overwhelm people with ideas, Deb and I put together an email mini course to help people take one idea–a Pop-up Fair–and use it to change the face of their downtown, at least for a day. You can learn more about it here: Pop-up Fair Mini Course.

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About Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.
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June 12, 2015 Filed Under: brag basket

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  1. Gary Herman says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    I work with the Alexander County EDC (Alexander County, NC) as Small Business Development Coordinator. I’m always looking for new ideas to help our local merchants, and decided to try a Cash Mob here. I can’t believe how our residents have rallied for this effort! We have had two Cash Mobs which have both been very successful (for a rural county/town). Each mob had approximately 40 people in attendance! We do ours on Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. (shopping), followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. — that way we’re supporting two local businesses with one event. In just two hours, we’re averaging an economic impact of over $1,000! So that’s $2,000 for two Cash Mobs that’s being spent locally, and helping create the mindset of buying locally… plus the merchants love it because they’re getting repeat customers! A little progress at a time… :)

    • Becky McCray says

      June 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm

      Gary, what a great example of something that can create a cascade of good results! Congratulations to you and the whole Alexander County. I love to see small and meaningful projects!

      • Gary Herman says

        June 15, 2015 at 1:15 pm

        Thanks for the kind words! It’s not unique, but it has never been done in our community… and I’ve been amazed at the response! Keep up the good work (and keep the good ideas coming!)

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