“Our theme isn’t jobs, jobs, jobs. Rather it is to bring back the kids to their hometown,” said John Larsen, CEO of HomeMovie.com (www.homemovie.com). Larsen started a program, Bring Back the Kids, in the small town of Winthrop, WA (population 350) to connect former residents with career opportunities in their hometown.Source: The Agurban E-Zine, Issue…
This link is about making your website approachable for customers, but the original book is all about making yourself approachable. So let’s push it a little more and think about making our businesses more approachable. If it weren’t your business, would you feel comfortable approaching it? Here are the lessons for websites: Make your site’s…
Here’s a tidy little example of making it easy for customers to buy from you. Convince your boss to buy Web CEO for you If you believe Web CEO can help you and your business in work,download our Power Point presentation (~190 kb) and show it to your boss. That is laugh-out-loud perfect! So think…
My 4 week website class is now over! We were supposed to be covering just the use of FrontPage software. We threw that idea out the first night. All of the students wanted to create a simple site. They didn’t have the FrontPage software, so we needed some different solutions. I’ll publish a few of…
Rural small businesses face a big workforce challenge. We are dealing, right now, with issues that will hit big city businesses soon. Over at Small Business Trends, Anita Campbell has a report on the coming shortages in the labor market. My Small Biz take on this? We must grow and train our own people. The…
From Ze Frank: on life i don’t think stairs actually exist. as soon as you step on one its a floor. stairs are just small, kind-of-boring floors that you have to stand on to get where you want to go. So why did I post this? To get you to think differently about everyday things….
Interns can help your business with new ideas, youthful enthusiasm, future employees, and public exposure, not to mention the cheap or free labor. Look to local, regional, and statewide colleges, universities, vo-techs, and community colleges for potential talent. Most offer credit to students for internships, and many have trouble finding enough places to send students!…
All the best ideas are borrowed (or stolen). So have you taken any field trips lately? Similar businesses may be the most obvious targets, but also add dis-similar businesses in your region to your list. Take a good hard look at businesses you visit frequently, scrutinize their ideas. Steal shamelessly! Compare your work to others’….
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