We’re all living with a changed economy and new rules for how we do business. The major themes in Small Town Rules are recognized by many other authors, including Gary Vaynerchuk and Tony Hseih. To round out your reading on these new rules, we’ve put together an Amazon list of complementary books: Doing business in […]
Small Town Rules on the Radio
We’ve been hitting the airwaves with Small Town Rules. Here are a couple of recent radio shows. Author and small business expert Barbara Weltman featured Becky on Build Your Business Radio (WSRadio.com): Build Your Business Radio Interview Brian Sullivan and Pat Madden featured Becky on The Entrepreneurial Moment radio show (KCTE in the Kansas […]
Longshoremen and the loss of geographic advantage
The rise of containerized shipping and intermodals has completely remade the shipping industry, and it serves as a model for the change in the entire economy. The New York Times profiled the changes to jobs at New York area ports, in On the Waterfront, the Rise of the Machines. The old way of distributing work […]
Big boxes are getting smaller
Big-box stores are getting smaller. Because so many big box retail chains are cutting back on store sizes, Barry Shlachter writes in the Fort Worth Star Telegram that this is a national trend. It’s also one of the Small Town Rules, where we know that bigger isn’t always better. A few juicy quotes from the […]
