Mike Knutson is someone you should meet. He believes small, rural communities need to “Reimagine” their futures. At “ReImagine Rural” (www.ReImagineRural.com) he and others attempt to inspire rural residents to look at the futures of their communities differently and to base their community development efforts on innovative, transformative ideas. I think I favorite or share…
All small town businesses are different, and all customers are different. Mix those two realities together, and people end up with all sorts of small town business experiences. Here are a few comments I caught on Twitter. Small town business ftw! Christmas shopping resumes :) 8:18 AM Dec 21st @siriuslyheather You have to love small town…
I met Judy Dunn when we both guest posted for The Marketing Guy Jay Ehret. We’ve been Twitter friends ever since, and I’m so excited she finally shares her small town business story. On Rural Small Biz Success: 5 Things I Learned When I Moved My Business to an Island There are small towns. There…
Joel Wiggins, Enterprise Center of Johnson County, shares some promising ideas for high tech businesses and ag based businesses that give an advantage to rural areas. Click here to view the embedded video. Interviewed by Becky McCray at NASVF – the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, Oklahoma City, September 2009 New to SmallBizSurvival.com?…
Greg Corombos and John Duoba from the Business Owner’s Toolkit Radio interviewed me for their radio show. We covered a lot of ground, including: What’s different in rural business, and what can all businesses learn? Do shop local campaigns work? How do you start one? What are some keys to success in small retail stores?…
[Jennifer Brooks writes a terrific blog about rural/urban fringe issues, and I invited her to do a guest post for us. And I am glad I did! -Becky] Drive, Shop and Be Merry: Tapping Into Rural Tourism & Retail Opportunities at Christmas By Jennifer Brooks Even as large retailers are slashing prices and expecting sluggish…
Is it really possible to live and work where you want? Or do you have to be located where the action is?We talk about this a lot here, and Jesse offered an interesting opinion in the comments on Barbara Winter’s guest post, Becoming and Entrepreneurial Villager: Its true the new technology enhanced economy allows each…
[Barbara Winter is one of the few folks talking about small town business. Her special focus is on being joyfully jobless. I’m thrilled she offered up this guest post. – Becky ] Not long ago, I found myself seated next to a small town enthusiast on a flight to Dallas. This man was a former…
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