Deb Brown and I have kicked off a new podcast series as part of A Positive View of Rural and SaveYour.Town. Each week we bring you five news stories or articles you can use in your small town business or revitalization projects. We add our comments and ideas, and we always share the links. […]
Archives for February 2016
Get a handle on your good news in the Brag Basket
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for February 26-28, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What good news will you share? It’s perfectly OK to pause where ever you are in the process and celebrate what has gone well so far. What can you do in […]
Developing Your Small Business Team
Building and running a business means handling a variety of tasks and duties. Some of those duties you may enjoy and some you may not. Some of those duties you may be good at and some may frustrate you. One task that many small-business owners continually tell me they neither enjoy nor feel competent at or […]
Recruiting business to your small town
Another reader emailed me last week to say they had formed a revitalization group for their town and asked for tips to attract businesses to their town. I don’t have any. Revitalizing a town is less about what you can attract from outside and more about what you can grow yourself. Experiment, try, fail, […]