These were the smartest trade show handouts at the Dallas Safari Club show this year. Vancouver Island Guide Outfitters printed targets on one side, and their flyer on the other. Magic formula: a useful item, inexpensive, with room to feature your business. What creative and useful trade show handouts have you seen? New to SmallBizSurvival.com?…
Image by iconshock Blogger is one of the easiest ways to start a blog for a small business. Easiest, but not the best respected. To the blogging elite, the blogspot.com address has become a kind of badge of shame. However, Blogger continues to introduce new ways to make your blog look good and work for a small…
What’s the best location for a new tourism visitor center? “Instead of mall location, a smartphone location.” My friend Scott Townsend pointed this out on Twitter. Why? “So much more info (maps, tours, photos, calendars, social media links, etc)” Have you started building your smartphone location? New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what…
After I told you about my project folder, Jen asked for my day-to-day planning tool. So here it is: a simple weekly calendar. Before I start my work week, I review the projects in my project folder and assign the next actions to particular days on my weekly planner. I use the six most important…
Each year, I do a rural small business trends article for Anita Campbell’s Small Biz Trends. Here’s the 2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business. (check the original post for more comments!) Local, government and economic development are the three key factors shaping rural small business in the coming year. Within each of these factors are smaller subtrends. Here’s…
Small Biz Survival has grown. It isn’t just blog posts any more! Here are some other places to connect, and other resources you can use. Social Networks and Community FacebookI post links to a few of our best articles, and I try to allow lots of room for community discussion. Find us on Facebook. TwitterI share…
I love it when a small business tells their story in a compelling way. Here is one terrific example. (If you can’t see the video below, click to open the original post.) I recently ordered from NutsOnline.com [UPDATE: Now they’re Nuts.com] because I loved the way they presented their family history all over their website. Their…
Here’s a terrific poster I saw in Dodge City, Kansas. Turning around the phrase, “Get the heck out of Dodge,” the Dodge City/Ford County Development Corporation has “Get the heck into Dodge!” Ten bonus points for their excellent website address: DodgeCityHasJobs.com – Their whole site gives a wonderful impression of the community and their current economic…
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