Audio: Change of Seasons – Time for Reflection
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Advertising: Less is Much More
A terrific article on advertising, from BusinessWeek, referred by Smallbusiness.com Newswire. Don’t confuse advertising with journalism. Journalism’s mission is to inform the audience by presenting all the relevant facts about a given topic.…But advertising is different. … advertising needs to come across more like theater. Over the years, an unspoken social contract has developed. Consumers…
Center for Rural Affairs’ Rural Enterprise Assistance Project Provides Equity Awards to Rural Women
Fourteen women micro-entrepreneurs across rural Nebraska will receive a cash equity award from the Center’s Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP) Women’s Business Center. The equity award winners were announced at the Women in Business Benefit banquet on March 29, 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska in correlation with Women’s History Month. REAP is one of 15 Local…
Follow the creation of a business at OklahomaSolo
Luke Anthony is opening a new law firm, right after completing law school. Plus he’s moving from Tulsa to Stillwater. And he’s documenting the whole process at an interesting blog, OklahomaSolo. To me, Stillwater isn’t exactly small town, but we’ll bend the rules! small biz rural entrepreneurship Stillwater Oklahoma law
Capitalize on being local
60 Second Ideas Blog has a terrific idea to share: Capitalize on being local, where ever you are. We’ve talked about the “my hood” craze before with Hook’em Profits and more recently with “Turn Your Neighborhood into a Fashion Statement.” Is there really “no place like home?” As we saw with Brooklyn’s Neighborhoodies, identifying with…
When your business is caught in the crossfire
Sometimes, change or progress can catch your business in the crossfire. If your business is providing web-based email solutions, what do you think about a major article that says email is bad as a tool for collaboration, and needs to be replaced? The blog Small Town, Big Ideas comes from a company that produces webmail,…
Keep up with technology
Jeanne (OkieJ) and I were keeping up with technology at a forum put on by the Business and Professional Women. We took a look at the new Windows Vista, and heard that the release is being pushed back again. Kevin Fream, President Matrixforce Corp., also gave us a look at Microsoft’s vision of the future….
What does it take to run a business?
Rob Spiegel shares his personal story of businesses he has started. Some failures, some successes. Here are his conclusions: There are a couple things I’ve learned over the years. Get your nut [overhead] small. Find something you really, really like doing – you’re going to have to do it a lot, and you’re going to…
