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    How do you make FourSquare relevant for small towns

    ByBecky McCray April 6, 2010August 27, 2014

    Location based games and applications like FourSquare and Gowalla are hot topics right now. Checking in on Gowalla Players use their mobile phones to check in at various locations to share recommendations with each other, to find friends who happen to be nearby, and to compete with each other. To get a real sense of…

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    Whatever it takes

    ByBecky McCray April 5, 2010August 27, 2014

    When I was a little kid, my mom and dad owned their own trucking business. One winter, things weren’t going great. In fact, things looked pretty bad. They went home to visit their parents in Alva, and cut a big load of firewood while they were there. Then they headed back to Oklahoma City, where…

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    Building entrepreneurial communities: April 8

    ByBecky McCray April 4, 2010August 27, 2014

    If you are trying to make your community more friendly for entrepreneurs, make time on your calendar for the  eXtension Entrepreneurship Webinar this Thursday: On Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 2 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. CDT; 12 noon MDT; 11 a.m. PDT) eXtension will offer a webinar that will feature Deb Markley sharing insights drawn…

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    How Promise Pizza made social media pay off

    ByBecky McCray April 1, 2010August 27, 2014

    Making Social Media Pay Off: Driving Awareness and Growing Your Small Business Through Tweets and Friends By Suzanne Cordeiro Jumping into the local organic pizza market feet first, PROMISE PIZZA learned early on the impact – and potential payback — of social media. I started using Social Media in October 2009 and was clueless about…

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    Why Small Town Small Biz Has an Advantage at Using Social Media Tools

    ByBecky McCray March 30, 2010August 27, 2014

    [Liz Strauss has been a friend to Small Biz Survival for… ever, it seems like. She called us SOBs back in our very first year: 2006. We finally met in person in 2008, when we stayed at Sheila Scarborough’s house together for SXSW. Liz is a mentor, a friend and a constant fountain of encouragement….

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    Startups outside of Silicon Valley

    ByBecky McCray March 23, 2010August 27, 2014

    You knew that when I saw a session at SXSW on How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley, I would have to go! It was lead by Ross Kimbarovsky and Mike Samson, the founders of crowdSPRING based in Chicago. (I owe Ross and Mike a big thank you. They did such an excellent…

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    Can you teach entrepreneurship

    ByBecky McCray March 22, 2010August 27, 2014

    Being a successful entrepreneur requires some particular skills. Many programs exist to teach entrepenuership in schools, in community organizations and in entrepreneurial support groups, but debate continues over whether entrepreneurship can really be taught. Are you born an entrepreneur, or can you learn to become one? Marc Nathan (formerly of the Houston Technology Center) and…

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    The 15 year overnight success story of SweetSoaps

    ByBecky McCray March 15, 2010August 27, 2014

    Every so often, someone tells a story on Twitter that just needs to be captured and repeated. This is one of those. On March 2, Ellen Cagnassola, aka @SweetSoaps, suddenly started telling the story of her business. Let me share her story with you, just the way she shared it on Twitter, 140 characters at…

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