I was disappointed I couldn’t find more info about a small town I wrote about in http://eldergeneration.net. Even small towns need websites. @Miss_Dazey I don’t care how small your town is, you have visitors and tourists. If you aren’t online, you are ignoring them. Some of them could be writing about you, promoting you to…
This is the second of several reports from the Making Place Matter in Northwest Oklahoma Rural Community Economic Development Summit held in Alva on June 3, 2010. A session on community building covered a wide range of topics, from the Main Street approach, to supporting local businesses, rural tourism, rural grocery stores, the participation of young people,…
Encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs is a hot topic in economic development, and I’d like to start a series on it here at Small Biz Survival. Most of you are involved either in a small business, or in economic development in one form or another, so I’d like to start with you. Do you have an opinion…
A terrific article from New Geography, “The Heartland Will Play a Role in America’s Future.” Take time to read the whole thing. One of the least anticipated developments in the nation’s 21st-century geography will be the resurgence of the American Heartland, often dismissed by coastal dwellers as “flyover country.” Yet in the coming 40 years,…
Two rural development resources worth exploring, both with business and entrepreneurship sections: Rural Community Building blogAmerican Farm Bureau Federation put together this blog “to enhance the quality of life in rural communities so that future generations will want to stay on the farm.” Sabrina Matteson, AFBF director of rural affairs is the lead author. Entrepreneurship…
Lenovo is paying special attention to the small business market with their ThinkCentre a63 desktop. Has their attention paid off? Lenovo provided the a63 system for our review from the small business perspective. Here are the positive points: This thing is quiet, very quiet. It also runs cool. The wide aspect monitors are excellent. I…
At South by Southwest, I again ran into Frank Robinson, Lockhart, TX. He was just coming out of the session on visual note taking, and he taught me three things about drawing and thinking. A mistake is something you did unintentionally, that looks different than what you wanted. If you can draw out the problem,…
I’m excited about the Small Business Social Media Summit in Hutchinson, KS, June 4-6, 2010. I hope you’ll come to hear local business owners who are utilizing social media every day, meet your peers and begin to build a peer network, and leave with a social media plan for your business. First, meet Deb Brown,…
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