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    POV Plain View Winery

    ByBecky McCray November 25, 2008March 3, 2022

    Having a winery is not a glamorous job! That’s what Con Pekrul, owner of Plain View Winery, says. Pekrul started making wines with his father as a hobby. Though it was based at his home with no traffic at all, it kept growing. He started to plan relocating. A building in nearby Lahoma, Oklahoma, (population…

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    POV Rural Waste Solutions

    ByBecky McCray November 23, 2008March 3, 2022

    “It can be done. It can be done with limited means. It can be done from a humble background,” Tommy Hudson said. “I am just a guy that had an idea and put a plan together and sought the right advice and enough advice to convince myself really that it could be done.” Hudson started…

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    POV: When I had no other options, I succeeded

    ByBecky McCray August 4, 2008March 3, 2022

    BizzFlip has boiled down some wisdom from a series of entrepreneur interviews. One quote that caught my eye came from Christine: I had tried to start businesses on the side for years, but because Ididn’t NEED them to succeed, they didn’t. When I quit my job and had noother options, I knew that I was…

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    Four Small Town Game Changers

    ByBecky McCray May 24, 2008March 3, 2022

    Social media tools can be a great field leveler for small town professionals. I explained why we bother spending time on social networking at Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog, and then offered some practical ways to get started at Chris Brogan’s blog. Now, let’s do a little show and tell. Here are four people living in…

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    POV: Britt Raybould: Building a biz outside your home town

    ByBecky McCray March 30, 2008May 26, 2022

    At SXSW, Britt Raybould and I met, introduced by Chris Brogan (who else?). We had some excellent conversations about working in a high tech field, without being from a major metro area. We both got lots of surprised comments from the big city folks. Of course, I wanted to introduce her to you, too. Before…

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  • big company | POV | survivors

    Two amazing women

    ByBecky McCray November 29, 2007March 3, 2022

    Women Helping Women. That’s the motto of the Business and Professional Women, which I belong to. In that spirit, here are two amazing women worthy of your attention this holiday season. Small town entrepreneur Marti Lawrence shares wonderful humor with several innovative projects. Right now, she has three projects going. First, she’s acting as a…

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  • big company | POV | rural | survivors

    WB’s is coming back

    ByBecky McCray July 23, 2007March 3, 2022

    If you lost everything in your business, would you rebuild? Could you rebuild? Ruth Ann and Bob Wedel lost almost every single thing in their bulk foods business in Greensburg, Kansas, to the May tornado that flattened the town. This was supposed to be their retirement business. They successfully built it up from just the…

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    Bowties and Corkers

    ByJeanne Cole July 11, 2007March 3, 2022

    Most regular readers know that Becky and I made a trip to Greensburg, Kansas this week. Now a pair of bright orange and yellow fishing bobbers sits on my desk as a reminder of Charlie. So I have to tell you about him. Charles R “Charlie” Jones is a fisherman. Not just any fisherman, he…

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