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Join us all in the Brag Basket

By Small Biz Survival

The Brag Basket is open! This one is for July 22-24, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone.

What can you share in the Brag Basket?

  • introduce yourself
  • share some great news from this week
  • celebrate progress, even baby steps
  • 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 someone you’re happy for. It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.

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July 22, 2016 Filed Under: brag basket

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  1. David Scott says

    July 23, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    How excited are we, i.e Destination Dorrigo Inc??? This last couple of weeks has seen the release of our first brochure! “What is so unusual about that?”, we can hear you say. Well, this is the first brochure guaranteed NOT to go out of date. Everyone knows that as soon as you have produced a brochure, a business changes, some one leaves town, or someone opens a business that should be in your pamphlet.

    We are totally QR coded with approximately 80% of the adult population of Australia with a smart phone this scan and link brochure refers the visitor, or potential visitor to our town, to a totally and fully inclusive community website that is designed to promote the small town (village) of Dorrigo, NSW, Australia.

    Here is how we have done it …. http://destinationdorrigo.com/discover/latest-dorrigo-news/5653-destination-dorrigo-brochure-launched.html We have done a complete audit of the businesses in our town as well as all of our community organisations, facilities, parks, attractions and events… come on world… make Dorrigo Your Destination!!!

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    • Katy says

      July 24, 2016 at 8:45 am

      Very great!! And thank you for the link~ I know a few communities here, that could totally scale this idea!

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  2. Katy says

    July 24, 2016 at 8:49 am

    This last week I finally got to meet in person the other half… Deb! Woot! Woot! Thank you ladies for delivering inspiration.
    And…. During the social for us Country Woman of the Year finalists, one of the panel is a head at Farmers Union Ins , so I went way out on a limb and told her that a rural communities health is linked to it’s ag communities health, and told her I’d be happy to come speak to them. Holy smokes! She said OK!!
    And… I have trained 2of the bottle calves to Drink water from the bucket! sometimes it’s the small victories. ;)

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