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    Finding Success with Dogs at Camp

    ByBecky McCray June 21, 2010August 27, 2014

    [Glen Kowarsky emailed me the other day, and I had to pass along his story. It’s a great rural small business story. -Becky ] I started Dogs at Camp back in the Spring of 2002. At that time, I had a dog named Abby, who was my ‘one and only’, as I don’t have children….

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  • global | tourism

    Talking tourism with Des Walsh

    ByBecky McCray June 1, 2010August 27, 2014

    Sheila Scarborough and I were happy to connect with Australian Des Walsh to talk tourism for our Tourism Currents listeners. I thought you’d enjoy it as well. Des Walsh(cc) by trib Des attended some presentations on the Tourism Queensland project, The World’s Best Job. He joins us with some thoughts on what went right, what…

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  • entrepreneurship | global

    International small businesses face similar challenges

    ByBecky McCray October 27, 2008August 27, 2014

    After my Small Business Letter from America that goes to the UK, our friend Marco Terry, of the Invoice Factoring Blog, shared some of his international perspective in the comments. What’s the same and what’s different for small business around the world? By Marco Terry What you write about is pretty universal. Small businesses still…

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  • global

    My Small Business Letter from America

    ByBecky McCray October 23, 2008August 27, 2014

    Once a month, Alex Bellinger allows me to post a Small Business Letter from America at the SmallBizPodUK. It’s a pretty tall order for this small town gal to seem to speak for the whole of American small business. This month, I didn’t think I could avoid the topic of the economy. If you’ve read…

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  • community | economic development | entrepreneurship | global | marketing

    Promote your rural place online

    ByBecky McCray August 7, 2008August 27, 2014

    Guest post by David James Nicol, Shetland Islands Photo by David Gifford, used by permission.  My name is David James Nicol, and I make my living running a web design business, NB Communication Ltd (http://www.nbcommunication.com). I live and work in the Shetland Islands, which lie about 100 miles (160km) north of the nearest point on mainland…

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  • global

    Small Business Letter from America at SmallBizPod UK

    ByBecky McCray July 23, 2008August 27, 2014

    Small Biz Pod is a pioneering podcast in the UK, covering a whole range of small business issues. They also feature some text articles, and Alex Bellinger invited me to contribute a monthly column. He suggested calling it the Small Business Letter from America. It would be pretty cheeky of me to speak for the…

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  • entrepreneurship | global | rural | youth

    UK award for young rural entrepreneurs

    ByBecky McCray June 18, 2008August 27, 2014

    Last year, I fell in love with the Young Rural Entrepreneur award. It’s back! Emma Blane gave us an update: It may interest you to know that Lycetts and the Field have just launched the award for 2008, again offering £10,000 to the winner, who can demonstrate the requisite entrepreneurial spirit by running a company…

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  • global

    What about the economy?

    ByBecky McCray May 21, 2008August 27, 2014

    Every day we’re hit with conflicting economic news. For my first guest post at the Small Biz Pod (UK), What About the Economy?, I offered some thoughts about what it means to be a small business owner during troubled economic times. Rather ambitiously, Alex Bellinger gave my guest posts the title of Small Business Letter…

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