Need ideas for a small town small business? We have an ebook for you. 20 Small Business Ideas for Small Towns is a short ebook detailing 20 different ways you can make a successful business in a small town. It also covers seven ways to generate your own ideas, so you can dream up the…
If you are doing wonderful, exciting things that will help other people, then you owe it to your potential customers to learn marketing and selling skills so you can connect more people to your benefits. If you are learning marketing and selling skills because your only focus is on generating more money for you, well,…
Sole proprietorship is the simplest form of business, but it also has some disadvantages. So for this installment of the Small Biz 100, I’ll talk about some of the situations where you don’t want to be a sole proprietorship and what types of business you might want to form. Important: I am not an attorney,…
Our Friend Shawn Kirsch is starting a conversation on living in small towns. His goal is to revitalize his hometown. I understand completely why people move away, and leave North Dakota completely for that matter. But as much as it may benefit me to move away, and be around more people with the same mindset…
We talk enough about small business mistakes and customer service problems, that I’m always happy to share successes, too. Our friend Mike Gunderloy was kind enough to share this story, after mentioning it on Twitter. We’re having our entire yard redone this year – from sprinklers to new patio to replacing every growing thing on…
On Thursday May 1, Barbara K. Baker proposes we revive some real world connecting. Get out and chat with a neighbor. Maybe even deliver a little May Day basket. Do you remember those little baskets of flowers you would leave on a neighbor’s door? Just exactly the kind of thing that used to be a…
Chris Brogan declared a Read and Comment Day, to get out and comment on others’ blogs. Here are the interesting finds I thought I’d share with you. I left my first comment today with @rickmahn, because I love his happiness series, and we’re going to meet at SOBCon! http://rickmahn.com/ Interested in travel and tourism industry?…
Getting past the point of being a one-person, do-it-all, no-rest-for-the-weary business means helping customers to work with your employees or subcontractors, as well as you. But if every client thinks you need to do every thing, how do you keep them from freaking out when you delegate their work? This problem is common in reputation…
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