I have some invitations for the Google Voice and Google Wave services. I’d like to give them to you, small town business folks. UPDATE: The invitations have all been awarded. WaveTo me, Google Wave is mostly a collaboration tool. It’s kind of like email, and kind of like a chat, and kind of like a…
Andrea left this question as a comment: I have an online business based in California. I currently ship from Nevada. I want to also start shipping from Illinois. My question is -do i need a business license and/or to pay taxes in NV and IL? Jeanne Cole, our contributor from the Small Business Development Center,…
Photos help tell your tourism story and make your place come alive. But the catch is that you never seem to have enough photos, or the right photo you need for this story. You could go online to find photos, but what are the restrictions on using photos you find online? Every photo you see…
by Deb Brown What is a bio Start with short overview Use professional picture Short detailing of what you do Fuller accounting of what you do Contact Info Let’s first determine what a bio is. It’s certainly not a resume. A resume follows a structured format of Education and Professional Experience and is usually in…
All small town businesses are different, and all customers are different. Mix those two realities together, and people end up with all sorts of small town business experiences. Here are a few comments I caught on Twitter. Small town business ftw! Christmas shopping resumes :) 8:18 AM Dec 21st @siriuslyheather You have to love small town…
I met Judy Dunn when we both guest posted for The Marketing Guy Jay Ehret. We’ve been Twitter friends ever since, and I’m so excited she finally shares her small town business story. On Rural Small Biz Success: 5 Things I Learned When I Moved My Business to an Island There are small towns. There…
Your library is hiding some surprising business intelligence, or at least, I was surprised. At the Michigan Small Town Conference, I sat in on the session on economic gardening. The librarians presenting the session talked about all the cool databases of information they have access to, that the general public does not. And how useful…
Here’s another illustration of the consultants’ ongoing issue of where to draw the line between free and paid. A company approached me about doing a consulting job in social media. I was one of several they were talking to, they told me. We talked by phone. They told me how they needed help to get…
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