Reader Laura Fisher “Mitten” from Michigan offered a terrific idea for promoting your works anywhere you go. This is a bit specialized, but my husband is a filmmaker and he puts clips of his work (his ‘showreel’) on his PSP (this would work with iPhone/iPod/Zune, too, I think). He’ll stuff it in his pocket when…
Karen Payne, yet another Okie, sent me this list. Though I couldn’t find an author or attribution, I want to share it with you. You can share it with your local community. Top Ten Reasons to Shop Local 10. Local stores are more likely to carry locally produced foods which supports local agriculture. 9. Local…
“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~John Burroughs Hat tip to Twitter pal Shawnz, aka Shawn Zehnder Lea New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates. Want more stories? Read our shared stories from all over.
Blog Carnivals can introduce you to many great new writers and resources. A carnival is a roundup of excellent articles that may move to a new host for each issue. Here are some wonderful carnivals that just happen to feature one of our articles this week: Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship Working at Home on…
On February 11 our friend Ramon Ray is co-producing the Third Annual Small Business Summit 2008 in New York City. (OK, that’s not very small town, but, hey, you New Englanders might want to make the trip.) He expects 400 attendees, up from 330 people last year and 40 exhibitors. Speakers include small business owners,…
Chris Brogan wrote a great post about promoting your media to the online world. That made me think about increasing your audience by reaching out to new people. Jon Swanson and I decided to collaborate on a follow up, how to promote your online 2.0 media to the offline 0.0 world. Here are my suggestions:…
I love a small business technology challenge! BarbaraKB on Twitter asked for someone to respond to an article in BusinessWeek, wherein Gene Marks listed off some tech ‘solutions’ he says small businesses “can’t use.” Can’t? All small businesses? Marks is, I think, off the mark. Let’s go through his list of 10 “overhyped and underwhelming…
Why are failures important? We learn from our blunders. Here’s another perspective on this idea. “The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” – Lewis Thomas, author of Lives of a Cell Hat tip to “Pistachio”…
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