[My friend Chuck Huckaby sent this small biz story to me. Chuck usually writes on business opportunities, and he thought we’d like the the story that goes with this one. -Becky] This is something that may be of interest to your audience. Just passing it your way. I’ve seen this guy build this from nothing…
Here’s a business idea for you: be the delivery service for the outside-of-town folks.My house is eight miles outside of Alva. I would gladly pay extra for an occasional pizza delivery, especially on weekends. (Like last weekend, for example!) My cousins live outside of Norman, Oklahoma, and I was sitting at their house when this…
You might be selling tickets to a community event or to you own business event. Either way, selling event tickets in a small town can feel like a real fight. Here’s a trick I picked up from Cody Heitschmidt, of Hutchinson Kansas: Limit the number of tickets and publicize that limit. This simple act turns…
If I was an economic development professional in a small town, I’d build a local version of the Oklahoma City Co-working Collaborative. Instead of looking for that next big company to recruit, I’d grow my own. And instead of focusing on “big” local businesses for my incubator space, I’d build a co-working incubator, styled after…
@mriggen: Biz idea for clothing manufactures: easy on/off clothing for seniors that isn’t insanely ugly (looking for g-ma) There’s a huge need for clothes that are easy to manage. The choices right now are terribly limited. The demand is just going to grow. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…
Overhead a great discussion on Twitter today. Cody Heitschmidt is on vacation in Texhoma, but his brain is still coming up with small town promotion ideas. @codyks:Small towns: when u have visitors, do u knock hospitality out the park? Its dirt cheap 2 do but leaves priceless memories. Take em coffee…what if someone from your…
Ready to spread the word about your town or tourism attraction? Maybe you want to run a “fam” or familiarization tour. That’s what Hutchinson, Kansas, is doing today. The usual fam tour targets travel agents, tourism consultants, tour operators, or others who can send direct customers to your town. But Hutch is targeting bloggers.We may…
Gino’s makes great pizza. They take a long time baking it. We’re not talking 20 minutes long time. We’re talking 45-50 minutes from the time the order is taken until you start to eat. That’s a long time, no matter how good the pizza is. So Gino’s, in Chicago, somehow came up with a great…
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